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In the Thread: (Hopefully short) headphone journey
Post Subject: Chaos & instantenous current: Implicataions for headphone and full-scale systemsPosted by scooter on: 6/28/2013
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 N-set wrote:

On the collapse, I did not experience anything that drastic so far...but I do get a lot of irritating chaos on complicated loud passages. At this moment I tend to blame the amplifier (a characteristic "breaking" of the solid state amp), but it may as well be the headphones too. Let's see what I get with the serious, dedicated amp I plan...



"Irritating chaos" is a better descriptor than "collapse." However, in my experience it didn't take much complexity or "full scale orchestra" or much "loudness" to rear it's ugly head. A single piano, classical guitar usually seemed ok, beyond that things went south very quickly. This was listenable for a few minutes, max then I just lost interest. I noticed the same problem at Goodwin's High End store in Boston with those low-sensitivity hi-fi systems but the failure/collapse/chaos was never so significant/brutal as it was with electrostatic headphones.

I think that is a VERY interesting issue to think about in the broader scope of sound reproduction with full-scale systems.

 N-set wrote:

I'd also add the source as a major factor. My O2's can be very-very nasty to the source limitations with some sources and wonderfully forgiving with the other.


I suspected these systems were sensitive to source and electricity; but these were potential secondary issues . This is because I tried a lot of these electrostatic systems, under different conditions, at different times, at different places and noticed the same "irritating chaos" consistently.

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