I am now a headphone fan because fate take my acoustic room and speakers away, but with the AKG K340 hybrid, my actual system beat my tuned speakers/room , and to beat my K340 someone will need a dedicated acoustic room with speakers way better than my Mission Cyrus 781...Cost : over the sky...( ask an acoustician how is the cost a dedicated room, and if you do it yourself , i takes me at least a year full time of listenings experiments to figure out and tune my resonators )
Cost of my Akg K340 : 100 bucks ...By the way the bass i hear correspond to a subwoofer arrays...but it vtakes me 6 months to peut them on their optimal level ( 6 modifications) Nothing is easy... But it is more simple than speakers/room well done...i dont think that in S.Q. many headpgone can beat them, after all they were compared to Stax omega favorably because of deep bass impact and holography and electrostatic highs and this 45 years ago without optimization...
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