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luger
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Nov 25, 2017
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These are end game cans, on a budget. I bought mine on an extended black Friday from the Big A last year for $649, paid tax. There is an enthusiast's thread on Head-Fi, you can do better price-wise, if you work hard at it, but usually second hand. For transparent sound, stellar transient response, electrostatics are hard (impossible?) to beat. These are well known for their wonderful midrange, but I'm awed by their high and low end as well. If they have a frequently mentioned shortcoming, it would be lack of booming bass. Hey, we are used to the low end distortion of dynamic speakers. If your playback includes a computer, the best solution isn't EQ, it's a harmonic exciter. Really! Go nuts and swap out for Vesper Audio pads, you'll thank me later. Plus, you don't need a super duper headphone amp to make them sound great. Well, a high current Stax amp someday, maybe. So much for end game on a budget...
VRacer111
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Nov 25, 2017
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lugerThe STAX SR-L700 is my endgame, but I will be waiting for the right deal on a used pair for less than $900, which will require some patience. Thinking in the mean time could get the Woo WEE electrostatic amplifier adapter and adapter cable for STAX PRO bias and have a great sounding ES setup going through my NAD C275BEE stereo amp with the ESP950. Then, with the eventual acquisition of a SR-L700, would have two ES headphones with different sound signatures that could be run off the same energizer/amp.
winterfog
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Nov 26, 2017
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lugerWhat, specifically, is your harmonic exciter solution? Interested in learning more.
luger
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Nov 27, 2017
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winterfogReally, give a try to the product thread in Head-Fi.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/koss-esp-950-thread.581491/
Someone, I think a recording engineer, recommended I stop beefing about not having enough bass distortion, recommended a harmonic exciter. Was harder to find than I thought, but I found one that works with Foobar2k...
https://hydrogenaudio/index.php/topic,86083.0.html is the (now defunct) working site for the developer. Settings to use can be found there.
DSP_BassExciter_EN.rar can still be downloaded from http://www65.zippyshare.com/v/vb7aMrzA/file.html
all the other mirrors, etc look like they've expired. Even that one is over 1.5 yrs old.
Enjoy!
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