Recent comments in /f/headphones

Toronto-Will t1_j1opqbw wrote

Reply to comment by SupOrSalad in My first pair of legit over-ear wired headphones in a loooooong time. Greatly enjoying them! by YashaAstora

Well I’d agree with that. In general a warmer sound is less fatiguing and the Koss tuning is warmer. I never managed to wear the SR850 for very long because of discomfort with the pads, but I would not be surprised if treble fatigue wasn’t far behind. There’s always EQ. I think the PortaPro’s still sound cheap even with EQ. Whereas the SR850’s just look and feel cheap, they sound fantastic for the price.

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klogg4 t1_j1oox34 wrote

Reply to comment by MashMayoru in I am not an audiophile, so I wonder if I'm in the wrong here. by PraviPero

I know what you're trying to say because highly praised headphones (including mid-fi) often play percussive sounds sharper and with more attack than HD6** series does, thus the initial feel of realism is higher. That's why I said about AKG K612 because they have the same characteristic - you would call them more realistic because they're overall closer to what you love to hear in TOTL than HD650 is.

Because, let me repeat that once again, - you can't really compare HD6xx to anything else because they have different approach to the sound comparing to the most other headphones (the only real contender is Shure SRH1840 I believe). It's not about their price, they really have different tuning. The tuning that lets you raise high shelf after 6 khz for "less muddiness" and be with it because of how linear is the treble. It's about balance. They have the least flaws not because they hit a lot of things right but because there're not many things that they do wrong. It's a coincidence that the only area where this approach pays off heavily is the vocals, and the others are just "meh" until you get used (after higher-end headphones as well).

>If Sennheiser truly believed hd650 was the least flawed possible then there would be no point for their hd800, he1, Orpheus.

You don't seem to understand what "flaw" is. And yes, HD800 is a more flawed phone than HD650. It's flawed for a purpose, like almost whole hi-end is.

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GamePro201X t1_j1okeus wrote

Reply to comment by YashaAstora in My first pair of legit over-ear wired headphones in a loooooong time. Greatly enjoying them! by YashaAstora

>Yes, I got these on Dankpod's reccommendation. Apparently a bunch of people on here hate them but I can't figure out why other than weird elitism

You'll see that a lot around here for sure. The tricky part about headphones/speakers is that people will have different views on how things should sound, and everybody will hear a headphone/speaker differently depending on several factors (mainly size/shape of head, ears, ear canals, etc). Plenty of people have told me they don't like the headphones I own, and vice versa.

The Samson SR850 from my understanding is a headphone that is rather bright sounding (heavier in the treble and deficient in the bass). Depending on the person they might be painful/sharp to listen to because of that brightness, or might not have as much slam in the bass as someone would like. The unevenness of their sound is the main reason some people will not like them.

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ch1maera t1_j1oi4et wrote

Reply to comment by 82_zeppelin in Super excited for these! by cat4hurricane

My first one was the m40x due to budget constraints at the time, the m50x felt so much more comfortable than the m40x, while sound quality can be debated but yeah the m50s are great but value wise nowadays there's a lot of competitior

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dd3mon t1_j1og14x wrote

Reply to about the hd 600 ear pads by jjfosh

It sounds like you haven't had personal experience with these pads. I would be surprised if you took issue with them after using them.

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