"Unfortunately I can not create a replacement order for the article "Philips X1/00, X1 Earphones with Fidelio range" as it is no longer available from our suppliers."

I think you should contact them! (Amazon.de has them....)

Thanks very much for that! I've sent them an e-mail so I'll see what they say. I checked Amazon.de and on there it seems that Amazon themselves do not have the X1's in stock but other resellers do, seems to be the same story for all of the European Amazon sites - Amazon.es no longer have the X1's on the website at all though...

I played the first song on youtube on FA-004 (which is a warm headphone with no sibilance problems otherwise), it sounds like the album was mastered this way, there's a lot of sibilant consonants and I hear them very well. Any detailed headphone with clear highs will make it worse.

It also depends on a person's subjective sensitivity to sibilance, many people don't mind/hear it at all. Your brain also learns it after a while. I remember when I first listened to my Fischer-Audio DBA-02 (which is neutral with a bit of emphasis on highs) and everything was so sibilant... bleh. But after a few months I actually stopped hearing the sibilance and loved the sound, although I still can't listen to some genres on it (some metal subgenres for example).

My X1 will arrive on monday, but I doubt it will be any better if I can hear it on FA-004. It's not that bad though, I've heard worse. ;)

I played the first song on youtube on FA-004 (which is a warm headphone with no sibilance problems otherwise), it sounds like the album was mastered this way, there's a lot of sibilant consonants and I hear them very well. Any detailed headphone with clear highs will make it worse.

It also depends on a person's subjective sensitivity to sibilance, many people don't mind/hear it at all. Your brain also learns it after a while. I remember when I first listened to my Fischer-Audio DBA-02 (which is neutral with a bit of emphasis on highs) and everything was so sibilant... bleh. But after a few months I actually stopped hearing the sibilance and loved the sound, although I still can't listen to some genres on it (some metal subgenres for example).

My X1 will arrive on monday, but I doubt it will be any better if I can hear it on FA-004. It's not that bad though, I've heard worse. ;)

Yes, it could be that the album was mastered poorly. Look up the Loudness War if you want details about dynamic range compression and increasing loudness beyond 0db which causes noticeable clipping and distortion. I thought Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers was incredibly sibilant when I first heard it a few years ago. I was blaming my headphones but then later found out that it was because it was mastered by the worst sound engineer alive, Rick Rubin and that he distorted the hell out of it on purpose.

Basically, what I am trying to say is simply that sometimes the recording is just complete ****.

Can someone put these in order of bass impact
HD650
Philips X1
LCD2
HE400
HE500
HD700
DT770
I know this quite a mix of headphones and pricing, but it would be really helpful to know about bass impact and also bass quantity and soundstage of each headphone
I shue most people haven't heard all of them but comparisons of those on the list or maybe some other god headphones for bass impact would be good.
hope people can help with this
ThanksEdited by Taliesin - 1/25/13 at 7:52am

Can someone put these in order of bass impact
HD650
Philips X1
LCD2
HE400
HE500
HD700
DT770
I know this quite a mix of headphones and pricing, but it would be really helpful to know about bass impact and also bass quantity and soundstage of each headphone
I shue most people haven't heard all of them but comparisons of those on the list or maybe some other god headphones for bass impact would be good.
hope people can help with this
Thanks

Can someone put these in order of bass impact
HD650
Philips X1
LCD2
HE400
HE500
HD700
DT770
I know this quite a mix of headphones and pricing, but it would be really helpful to know about bass impact and also bass quantity and soundstage of each headphone
I shue most people haven't heard all of them but comparisons of those on the list or maybe some other god headphones for bass impact would be good.
hope people can help with this
Thanks