Thanks again marcus for letting us try the W3000ANV and nice meeting guys!
The quality of wood cups is just astonishing, it's pretty! It made the Denon A100 look like an amateur project
The craftmanship done on this headphones is priceless but of course at the end this is not an art painting that you will hang in the wall and just look at it.
Some impressions:
1. It sounds a bit on the bright side of being neutral.
2. Resoution is good, clean instruments separation.
3. Fast decay, really good for fast-paced music. It doesn't choke and get left behind. Energetic sound sig I should say. Somehow it reminded me of Grado 325is PRAT that I used to have.
4. Highs are detailed but there is this annoying peak on some tracks. I think it will tend to be fatiguing on modern recordings. I listened with it on Christopher Cross Vinyl ripped album that has a good dynamic range, there are no peaky highs.
5. Bass is well controlled and has a good attack and speed, does not really bleed into midrange but it does not also goes down deep. I wanted more impact. I will not recommend it for bassheads, you'll better satisfied with Jake's Denon D5000.
6. The mids are full and very engaging and are actually not that colored, sounds similar to the AD2000 (if you find the AD2000 mids too colored, then you won't like the mids of W300ANV as well). I do think they have the same tonality, it's just that the AD200 has more airiness due to its open-type design.
The headphones I think has been used for less than 20 hours, I want it's sound sig to relax one level down, maybe more burn in time. Also I don't think it is fair to define it's strengths and weaknesses on 15 minutes audition, changing songs/tracks halfway through.
But I don't have a 67k to spend on this
