Recent comments in /f/headphones

Hydrosplash t1_jdkig55 wrote

Yes, you're doing things wrong when matching headphones. To properly equalize 612 and hd600 for example you have to take into account that these have a completely different upper treble presentation with different placement of upper treble peaks and it can drastically impact this "resolution" and "soundstage" etc etc. You really have to do this the way OP did, using microphones and measurements to precisely match every single part of the FR or at least bring them as close as possible and even then there's no guarantee that you're gonna have a same FR for both at the eardrum.

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No_Analysis6187 t1_jdkg0ff wrote

So are cheap headphones or IEMs comparable to entry level speakers, or is it the other way around? I feel like I have found my endgame in portable audio and thinking of getting sonus Faber or Wharfedale.

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Tiedyeinstein t1_jdkdudo wrote

The problem is you don't get any cross feed with headphones, that's why music mixed on headphones can often end up very muddy on a system. The most reliable and translatable sound will come from near-field or mid-field monitors set up properly in a good room.

It's not even monitors that are that much more expensive than good cans, it literally the cost of setting up a proper space to optimize them.

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TemporaryProperty108 t1_jdka4d4 wrote

I never know if people are just lying about these things, I have god-tier ears, or I am doing something incredibly wrong when eqing headphones to match each other. To me the differences are night and day. If I EQ my HD 600 and AKG k612 to the same FR, I can clearly tell the superier soundstage and imaging of the AKG and the resoultion and timbre of the Sennheiser apart. Even when I EQed my DT990 and 880 to match each other I could clearly tell them apart in a blind test. With Amps it gets very difficult to tell them apart while switching between them, but I am imagining differences in longer sessions. I might be hallucinating on that one, or it's true that everything sounds similir when switching quickly between things.

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