Putting them on blocks a good amount of external noise out. These arrive & the natural thing to do is look at them, nicely made, good cushions, the solid type of 6.3mm jack with the screw-in 3.5mm one like the 30s & 40s have. £105-£120 in 2013, "S" version for straight cable for items far away. Verdict: The only ones that are any good. The current ATH-M20 recipe now is clearly different to our old ones which we'd rate 6.5/10. 2/10 NOT RECOMMENDED as sound is supposedly flat but now is seriously flawed on the treble. ATH-M20 are clearly nothing like ones sold 4-5 years ago. But we dared to take them apart in view of buying a new pair as these were getting too tatty if sounding good & them being the same, oh dear. The M20 vinyl ear cushion covering is long gone, lousy quality, but they don't break and we've trod on them & raked them off the floor many a time. With a full size Neutrik jack plug as the supplied small one is very weak, you just solder the lacquered wires to lose the coating & solder. These were the ones we've been using, a measly £38 new or less, not impressive at all, eh? Older Ones had a great natural sound with a sine wave sweep being correct to how we hear it on our Speakers. "Out of the strong came forth sweetness" as the Syrup tin says.Ģ013 Verdict on new stock ones: Too flawed now to bother & we tried 3 pairs. The weeks in limbo until we found the letter M50s was not fun though, but the outcome of determination pays off eventually. Overall we are now glad we got rid of the M20s as we know they were cheap & bass was light. We use FLAT response Tannoy Golds from 1969 & know how bad & artificial the 1992 Tannoy 609s sound, with boomy bass, recessed midrange & lousy treble. No wonder people are happy listening to rubbish Hifi if these false sounding Headphones & Speakers is the deal they get. We were quite disgusted at how Dishonest the sales pitch is on the supposedly better ones noted below. There are good basic headphones that we have been using for a few years & then the awful fake boom & tizz sounding rubbish that paying EXTRA gives you. But as no-one knows what they are selling today or apparently tried them in the way we do, we type it for you. Many Headphones as with Loudspeakers are Fake Sounding to make cheap items sound better. MP3 on a mobile is little better than a MW portable radio of old. How you use Headphones matters too: for the best Vintage Hifi or for mobile phone or soundcard headphone amp, the sort of headphone you can use varies. The difference M20 to M50 is like the 6" bass driver compared to the 12" one & the M20s are in the past. It won't hide the rough sound of some other amps we tried to better. The Audio-Technica M20s were basic after all, but served us well. Headphones are take it or leave it, no upgradecing possible & we did try. Now we know (again) how totally jumping in a mud puddle the game of buying new Hifi items is. But you'll need to read on as the game of finding Headphones is a totally unknown exercise as no-one knows their products anymore & learning specs can help find ones worth a try it still doesn't mean you'll get the right ones. Thankfully (as of 2013) we've found some Headphones now that we can happily use & continue with our Amp testing. The deal with Headphones is how loud (db) and the voice coil resistance (ohms) affects how natural, loud or false sounding it is. Hifi Is An Illusion Of Musical Reality After All Yamaha CA-800ii Has 'Class A' and a 'Tone Jump' Flat Switch. To Those Who Say Tone Controls Not Needed Valves: Receivers Trio WX-400U & Sansui 500Aġ966 Akai AA-7000 Receiver & Other 1965-66 Tuners But for how hard it is to edit & risk losing interesting info, it all stays if it's been read through in 2017 to see it makes sense, if a bit on the random, but that's the appeal of Blog-type sites. This page has been updated & read through with 2017 ideas & with an Index to navigate.īe aware this page has sections written since 2010, some later page sections are duplicated in theme as written earlier as it states we've noticed. Includes New Articles on this page's subject. Lots of New Sections since Jan 2017 that add a wide range of Hi-Fi & Tech related subjects plus opinion on Hi-Fi News 1970-1980 as we read through.
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