Sensitive ears per se, having being used to hifi and flagships for a long time it's shocking to me I ever thought the hd650 sounded good when I put them on nowadays.

Lcd4 was the most "it sounds better the louder you go" headphone for me, and i couldn't stop turning it up...

It's not like I blast music at 100db+ for more than 30min to an hour at a time often anyways, and lower volume listening or regular web browsing is far from fatiguing to me.

Sound quality is fine and will not blow you away but convenience it's what makes me pick it up, not having to deal with wires while doing chores and cooking is nice. Also default ear tips that comes with is terrible hardly any seal and not that comfortable.

Seconding the PC38X - I’ve simply stopped there. I have much better’ headphones, but these are it for gaming.

No, it doesn't. Actually the only mid-fi headphone I have tried that has shouty 1 khz was Yamaha MT8, other mid-fi phones had pretty linear mids, or had problems in other places rather than 1 khz. It really is only an issue with hi-end headphones, Audeze in particular. Haven't tried TOTL Sonys though.

Talking about HD650/600/6xx and others from this series - this is the only headphone in the world that doesn't give me any ear fatigue at sane levels of volume. The most comfortable sound signature in the world. They really may feel dull compared to other headphones, mid-fi included, but it is worth getting used to that sound sig, because balance between details and fatigue is perfect.

I have the DT770 Pro 80ohm through a Schiit Magni Heresy. Love them. Used them daily for music and gaming and had no issues. Upgraded to an LCD X recently and now they are my daily driver.

I've owned all generations of the Galaxy Buds (except those awful Beans or whatever) and they are all excellent products, with the possible exception of the Buds+ because the treble sucks.

The Harman tuning is popular for a reason. You may not like it and that's fine, but many do, statistically speaking.

Dunno, the convenience my Buds+ give me far outweighs the sound quality of my B2s

Sounds like nocebo to me, coming from the hd650 to focal clear to lcd5 and Myriad of other flagships I never really found them particularly fatiguing, or rather it was easy to get used to them, in return making mid-hifi cans sound muddy in comparison.

Even hd650 has a 1k peak but it's just 2-3 DB lower.

yeah I can see that, sometimes I imagine if there's anything that somewhat combined the strengths of the flagships, and so far the closest I've heard is probably x9000 or bravura...

Yeah definitely. Especially with regards to frequency response; all of them are so close to neutral that most people would see them as flawless. I think what I really meant was that every headphone at the high end has one or two things thar they do much, much better than others, so relative to that, all high-end headphones are "flawed" in some way.

The hugest flaw of almost every planar and most high-end headphones in general I have heard is 1 khz peak, and 1266 TC has rather huge one. Why should I get used to shouty phones that give me fatigue very quickly? 1 khz peak doesn't give me any more information that I already hear, nor it makes sound more natural, but it absolutely gives me fatigue. It's a huge flaw to me.

I disagree, it's not just tuning that matters. There's also technicalities of the headphone themselves. Not everyone likes HD600 tuning, I personally dislike it and it's lack of detail.

Man I really want to try a Beyerdynamic just out of curiosity. They sound like such a mixed bag. When I transitioned over from a Hyper X Cloud II to my 6XX everything sounded very correct and just right to me.

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Sadly they won't sound as good as they can unless they're paired with a Samsung device as well due to the Samsung Scalable Codec, their proprietary bluetooth codec.

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Yeah well obviously theoretically there can't be zero flaws, but some of them are so universally good that had you not compared them you would never think it's lacking in anything...

Going from hd650 to clear or utopia was also immensely hard to tell the flaws in them as well, even though nowadays my clear sound very tame...

All the high end headphones I've tried are flawed to some degree, and I've heard most of them. But at that level none of the flaws are particularly glaring.

Does crinacle has some Samsung money in his pocket, because their tws always sounded just bad to me

Honestly for the flagships it takes like at least an hour to get used to it even having heard and daily drive TOTLs all day everyday.

Hearing them at a canjam or similar situation hardly count as having heard them tbh.

1266 at least the most glaring flaw is 13khz peak, with a 7db EQ down it's fairly close to flawless, albeit that has changed due to x9000.

But they're all good enough where once you get used to it, and without other flagships as comparison, it sound good enough to be considered flawless.

Imo ab1266+EQ, sr009s, x9000, LCD 5, are all good enough that feasibly I wouldn't be able to imagine how much better it can get without other flagships comparisons.

The Hifiman ef400 powers them better than a speaker amp I tried with them, and the Jot 2 I also tried. The r2r dac in the ef400 is excellent. I use the dac with an otl amp to power my hd800 and I love that combo.l

Every headphone has a signature to it. The Beyer 770’s are definitely much more midrange/high end emphasizing than others.

Usually it takes about 20 minutes for your ears to adapt to the signature of a particular headphone and then you kind of adapt and things start sounding more normal.

It usually means that there's a lack of the lower midrange while the upper midrange is boosted. This recesses the fundamental tone and emphasizes the harmonics, resulting in the sound lacking weight or body.

Try tightening your throat while speaking. You should find that your voice will be higher pitched and thinner in sound. That's a bit like having a hollow sound. It's something that is an intuitive description once you hear it, but is hard to describe otherwise.

Lucky guy. I have easily heard flaws in all planars I have heard (1266 TC and LCD-2 included). Was a bit harder time with Focals but still.