Ed8 sounds different depending on head position - Page 3

Hard to say but for me I would say yes..

It bother me sometime at the beginning them I figure out not to more so much when I use them :)

 

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Originally Posted by priest 

Do any of you who experience this effect consider this a "flaw" with these headphones? Does it impede your enjoyment of them?

Okay so we have unlimited and Aimlink that hear a difference when moving around the head and not the headphone itself? And only with the ED 8?

I can´t hear any change in sound signature whatsoever am I alone with that?

And what is the theory this would only occur on the ED 8?

I tried this last night with my Edition 8 - no issue whatsoever. 

I can only assume that people who have a problem when they turn their head are "breaking the seal" of the earpad against the head - this is just an issue of how the Edition 8 interacts with one individual's body versus another's.  That is my guess, anyway - hard to say for sure since I do not have the issue.

Is this a change in tone and character or is this a change in headstage?

I have experienced headphones that can cause strange topology contortions of the headstage when looking up, down, left, right, tilting to the side, or laying back.  My Sony MDR V6 do that.  The headstage can do literal backflips inside my head or flip inside out just by moving my head and body around.  This also makes the V6 exceptionally poor with binaural recordings.  My other headphones don't do that.  I hope your Edition 8 isn't doing that.

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Originally Posted by aimlink 

 

I'm hearing a change in tone mainly.  Mainly with the bass response.
 

That indicates that you're breaking the seal between your head and the earphone as you turn your head to the extreme.
 

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Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich 

My Sony MDR V6 do that.  The headstage can do literal backflips inside my head or flip inside out just by moving my head and body around.

You need to get your V6 under control, bro.
 

This could be a problem, because when I make enough to afford Ed8's I'd be so happy I'd be doing backflips. 

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Originally Posted by Ypoknons 

This could be a problem, because when I make enough to afford Ed8's I'd be so happy I'd be doing backflips. 

I don't feel it would be worth paying so much for a closed headphone,just because they of their cosmetic quality.

I mean a closed pair is a closed pair any day.

Except that for some of us, there is no option except for closed, and we want to maximize that experience.

I would rather listen to my T1 than the Edition 8, but in my bedside rig, that is not an option.  And the Edition 8 sounds very, very good