Popular Post chrille Posted April 12, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2019 On 4/10/2019 at 7:34 PM, austinpop said: No I haven’t. I’ll be on the lookout for them now! Thanks for another great and very informative review! The AKG 1000 is the headphone Jared Sacks used as monitoring headphones at recording sessions for the Mahler series. Unless he has changed recently ,those are what he used at the Mahler 3 sessions too. I heard his pair during the Mahler 5 sessions in Budapest. Very open and very different to most other headphones except the newer Myspheres and the old and NEW Jecklin Float electrostatic headphones. Earspeakers would maybe be a better term for that type of headphones. And very probably also the now much talked about RAAL SRH1A ribbons which I hope to audition next week in Singapore for the first time. I have also yet to hear the NEW supposedly much improved over the old ones,Jecklin Floats but I have an old pair still back home. And like the AKG1000 they deliver some the most open "out of the head" headphone listening available. But are not very good for deep bass. The BIS team in Minnesota monitor with Stax electrostatics I think. I haven't been to any of those sessions. But at sessions in Gothenburg Sweden they used Stax electostatics when I was there. And I believe the recording engineer who introduced me personally to HD800, now also has a pair of Stax headphones as well. So I am a bit surprised no electrostatics were included in your review at all? The very resolving but a bit too bright,Utopias sound too upfront and to "small" soundstage-wise with classical symphonic material, in comparison to the AKG1000 imho. Very impressive in some respects, but tiring in the long run for me. For classical music and large scale symphonic music in particular, which I listen to almost exclusively, I agree that the HD800 still are a VERY GOOD choice. And this winter I have been travelling with my old HD800 with the velour Dekoni pads. To my ears they do tame the treble peak a bit compared to the orginal pads and are much more comfortable. And with Qutest/ HMS I get a lot of musical enjoyment from that combo. Cheers Christer austinpop and Sp12er 1 1 Link to comment
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