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What is the best upgrade from Sennheiser HD 203 and PortaPro
Below is a question that I posted in a sound equipment forum, I think it is not so bad that it's incomprehensible but I believe it needs corrections or at least improvements, so I posted it here as well and hope to hear corrections/comments from you.
The title speaks it all.
I just bought these 2 cans very recently, the PortaPro in June and the 203s - less than a week ago, and I have to say I'm still not really satisfied with any one of them.
What I used for reference is a pair of cheap PC speaker - the Logitech x230. Of the 2 headphones, the PortaPro is closer to the X230 than the 203s in performance. I like the details, the sound stage and smooth sound it produces. The only drawback is that it does not sound good with vocal (genre), when listening to the track "500 miles" - Noon, the female voice is dull, blurred and not as smooth as with the PC speakers'.
So I ordered the 203s in the hope that its brighter sound signature will fix the problem that the PortaPro has. The 203s do have a cleaner sound when listening to vocal, but it underperformed the PortaPro in every other respects: the mids are too thin, voices sound harsh, way to loud, drowning the instruments. The cello, guitar sounds weird on these 203s. It seems that all in all, the PortaPro suit me better because I listen to mostly vocal, jazz and some classical. I don't do any rock, metal, hip-hop, electronic, etc..
So, the question is, what is my best upgrade or should I upgrade at all, given that my budget is quite limited: around $100.
Source: laptop, PC on-board sound card, my Blackberry phone (I prefer not to invest to an head-amp, but if I have to, it shouldn't cost more than 60$)
Music: Jazz, Vocal, Classical
How about Sennheiser HD 555? How does it compare to Audio Technica AD700 or an AKG in its price range? I heard a lot of mixed reviews about it, some positive, and some negative. What makes me worried is those that say the 555 sounds 'boring', flat. If that 's the case, then this 555 is no better than the 203 that I am not able to love, right? I know these 555s are discontinued but I still can get it here new for about $100.
Thanks for any advices and pardon my English :)
P/S:
Suggestion for HPs from other brands are also welcome, but those about Senns would be most helpful because Senn HPs are very easy to find in my area.
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It's important to know, there are 3 different Vietnamese dialects.
In Vietnam, there are 3 different areas in which people speak their own "version" of the language: North, South, and the Middle. However, the northern dialect is considered standard and is the main language used by the media. Order of popularity in media is as follow: North, South, and Middle. The differences are not just in accent, they are also in the vocabularies. For example: northern people use "bố" for "dad/father", southern use "ba". Northern people say "cái bút" while southerners say "cây viết" to mean "a pen". Likewise, in the Middle, people say "mô" when they mean "where", while people from the North and those from the South say "đâu/ở đâu".
Because of those variations, sometimes even native Vietnamese speakers have problems communicating with each other. For foreigners who just start to learn the language, this can cause a lot of confusions and even frustrations.
The grammar is, however, the same for all three regions.
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