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JL3001 t1_j1ddvuw wrote

Reply to The Empyreans are great. The Elites are something else by Not_a_Lefty

Had a chance to demo the Elites at home for a few days and they won me over with such a pleasant, easygoing sound with great bass. That with the comfort and design made it the most kickback and chill headphone I've heard in long time. It had me doing the calculus about how I could get one.

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GimmickMusik1 t1_j1d32j2 wrote

Reply to comment by Accomplished-Edge426 in First step into Hifi and first problem, leading to first post on Reddit by Accomplished-Edge426

My experience with center image in music is that it tends to sound more “in your head.” The only way to really get a truly out of your head experience with headphones is when a track is mixed with that in mind or if you use an audio engine/dsp to simulate it.

Headphones are stereo devices by default. Good imaging on a stereo spectrum means pinpoint positioning of audio between far left and far right.

I commonly see people mention imaging in gaming and while it can be achieved (there are many game engines that support positional audio as well as simulate surround audio) the reality is that not all games support imaging through headphones. So keep that in mind if you plan to use your headphones for gaming.

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hurtyewh t1_j1cuyxv wrote

Reply to criteria by lightning696969

Those are price categories and not quality ones to begin with and they are not well defined. I'd say <200, 200-700, 700< and maybe some silly summit-fi on top. It makes sense to use them since usually people are coming with a budget in mind and even if in general price doesn't correlate with sound quality it is still true that the good options at a price level are most better than the good options in a lower level. There arr just so many bad ones in all price ranges that the correlation is broken.

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Rogue-Architect t1_j1cnpyi wrote

Reply to comment by No-Context5479 in criteria by lightning696969

The other issue I see is tonality. It is pretty easy to tell my LCD-5 and 6XX apart just based off of their tuning. You could try EQing both to some target to try to minimize which would be interesting with the other blind folded stuff. Just would have to make sure all headphones could take the EQ because a 6XX just can’t handle sub bass as well so definitely a roll off like the 6XX has naturally.

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