Recent comments in /f/headphones

sshoihet t1_j2fvsna wrote

Reply to comment by Fearless-Physics in Got my first closed-back headphones. Why does it feel weird to wear them while no sound is being played? by Fearless-Physics

I wear earplugs all day in the shop at work and ANC headphones/earbuds in the office, even when I'm not listening to music. I like the quiet, it's shocking just how noisy the office is even when no one else is there, with the sound if the lights, HVAC and computers. Even at home there's a lot of noise that I can hear through my open backs at low volume.

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zero-value-person t1_j2fv85l wrote

Reply to What can I do to delay the inevitable break? by Victor_710

Aside from what everybody else is saying, make sure you extend the headband arms to an appropriate length for the size of your head. I've broken a few headphone bands precisely with the same crack location and appearance because I kept them compact while wearing them, which means the bands flex wider than they should to fit over my stupid dumb big head.

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Qazax1337 t1_j2fuahh wrote

Reply to head phone hair loss by shoe-eaterr

Funny you see guys that have gone bald from headphones but no woman ever seems to go bald from headphones.

Almost like it isn't the headphones...

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TheFrator t1_j2ftvdn wrote

Reply to Partially hearing impaired need to control balance by duodave

I know the Quedlix 5K has great balance control (and independent L-R 10 band PEQ). But that's a mobile device but you might be able to hook it up to a PC with a USB cable.

On the much more expensive end (~$900) is the RME ADI-2 DAC/amp. That has extensive L/R balance capabilities and many more DSP features.

And like /u/Zilfallion says, checkout Peace EQ (which is a GUI interface of Equalizer APO). You can adjust Left and Right to your hearts content without having to buy one of the devices I listed above. Example image

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zero-value-person t1_j2ft4h2 wrote

Reply to head phone hair loss by shoe-eaterr

Haha, that's cute.

No, they don't. Nor do hats, which I used to be told would give me hair loss. Either they're regurgitating old myths, or they're trying to get you to take off your headphones more so they can talk to you.

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blargh4 t1_j2fs7kb wrote

Reply to How much can we learn about headphones from measurement graphs? by lr_science

In practice, less than we'd like. I would apply the same caveats you would looking at a speaker frequency response measured in someone else's living room. The acoustics of the tiny "room" your head/ears create in conjunction with a given headphone (to say nothing of the subjective qualities thereof) could be quite different. But measurements made on the same rig are useful for gauging the overall tonal differences between two cans... to a point - for example, to my ears my AKG K371s have some very prominent peaking near 6khz I don't see on any measurements made on the GRAS artificial heads.

I've yet to see compelling evidence that at normal listening volumes "dynamics" is something separate from frequency response and your usual illusory differences that have nothing to do with the actual sound.

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