HEADPHONE LISTENING: ALL MOD CANS

摘要

I'm a regular reader of HFN here in Plymouth, Michigan, USA and wish to comment on Keith Howard's reviews and tests. I also own a pair of Audio Technica headphones, the closed-back, top 'o the line ATH-W5000s. I believe there is a 'house sound' with ATs, and that Keith would find the "W-5000s an even more involving listen. His test of the Grado 1000s [see HFN April '08], in which Keith wonders whether just one pair of headphones is sufficient to do justice to all types of music, or whether two or three sets are in order struck a chord. Not only do I own Grado SR-125 and AKG 701 'phones, which I use alongside my ATs, but I also use three very different headphone amps, fed by three very different sources, fed into three different DACs, an anti-jitter box, a USB outboard soundcard, two 'in the computer box' soundcards, toslink and coax digital connections, etc, etc, etc! What's more, all the headphone amps have been modified by upgrades.