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Headphones will always win, .
Pretty true fact. Headphones have less variables than room would.
Once you hit a certain dollar range I'm really curious how headphones justify their cost, because their performance goals are fairly easy to meet, IMO.
With speakers you have design drivers around power compression--magnet structure, the spider, driver chambers--THD under SPL, frequency response characteristics from 0 - 75 degrees, diffraction/reflection performance, time alignment, cabinet resonance, etc. Of course, there is the quality and materials, driver integration, crossovers, damping and bracing of the cabinet, the finish, etc. Basically you can keep dumping in resources to improve performance because there are so many variables. In addition shipping costs are obscene compared to headphones. I really am curious about where is the money going towards for example those $10K sennheiser headphones. What variables are they really putting in those extra resources, or is it 90% markup compared to say, the Sennheiser HD800?
Pretty true fact. Headphones have less variables than room would.
you said "always win"
ill take a modest 2ch stereo setup in a decent sized room w/ treatments over any headphone setup.
you cannot substitute reverb/room liveliness with headphones.
Are those Fountek NeoCD 3.0 ribbons?
I still have a pair of unused LCY 130's just sitting in my closet... I keep forgetting to sell them.
It's the RAAL ribbons that you really want - I had those as well (140-15D, amorphous core), and they were easily the best of them.
I was once addicted to this hobby - I assume you're at Diyaudio and some other forums. I recognize those Aleph boards
Edit: What models are the other drivers? The mids look like the Davis-branded Kevlar mids... Zaph reviewed them, but I think he received a damaged pair so it didn't test well at all.
Mackie tends to sacrifice linearity to make a more pleasing-sounding speaker. Fine if you're not using them for monitoring, otherwise not so fine.lol haha yeah i know those KRK's are good but if i were to spend some serious buck on music equipment id rather go for mackies i hear theyr superb