@black_rectangle wrote:
Bowls on the SR125.
After clicking over to head-fi just now, I saw a $99 special on RE0 on the current page. Those things got great reviews, and if they even come close they would live up to the original poster’s needs.
Classical listeners are a minority. The premium is on clarity and spaciousness–not the giant bass oomph of headphones made for current rock/pop/hiphop. A bass fiddle is not a club subwoofer. But a lot of cheaper phones are made for bass-addicted listeners, and they are not going to show classical recordings to their best advantage. A classical listener would probably do well to go for phones touted or denounced as “analytical”–which means they are not going to pump up the bass.
For what it’s worth, since Head-Direct’s country of production and production methodology has changed; their 'phones are just OK now. Nothing special. I wouldn’t go out of my way to get any of their products again, but that’s me…
