Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Wireless Headphones

Well, dammit! I still am an ardent fan of Metallica. But y'all already knew that.

I picked up a used Metallica CD at y'all's suggestion. I can only take a couple of songs at a time. The drummer is constantly crashing what sounds like 4 cymbals throughout the whole album. Too much.

How do you know they don't suffer from a sound quality loss, Sushi? Have you demo-ed any? From what most people have said (I checked out a forum dedicated to headphones - what dorks!) there does seem to be a difference.

The difference is probably due to the fact that head-philes spend ungodly amounts on their headphone cables. Without a cable, it can't possibly sound as good as a $500/ft. headphone cable!

Which albums did you get? There is a rather vast gulf in the sound of all of the albums. But yes, Lars does like those cymbals. I wouldn't recommend St. Anger for a first listen to the band...

actually with most headphones you can't replace the cable unless you actually take it apart and do it manually. The senn 580/600's have an easily replaceable cord, but besides them I dont know of any.

And besides, the thing that changes the sound most dramatically for headphones is the amp.

Metallica "Metallica". My little brother has a couple CDs from the early 90's ("Ride the Lightning"? and another one). Maybe I'll burn those too. If I remember right there is a song on one of them with an extended bass solo that I liked quite a bit at the time.

Probably the song Orion on Master of Puppets.

So for an old guy watching TV 20 hours a day, lots of Fox News and auto racing, you think the infrared would be OK? The reviews I have read of the other wireless systems (900mhz, FM, and the Amphony 2.4 digital system) have all been negative.

Is that just because those guys were all audiopiles?

I will definitely agree with you there. My brother has invested a bit of money in headphones. He has the Senn 580 with a custom cable and a nice headphone amp. When I compared the built-in amp on his Sony SACD changer to the the dedicated headphone amp, the difference was incredible.

The strange thing was that the company he bought the cable from recommended breaking it in for about 24 hours. He left them playing at a relatively high volume all day. He said it made a difference. Who knows for sure....