New ATH-M50's - High distortion

Do you have any other source to test? Like an ipod or phone?

I received my M50 about a week ago and haven't really heard any distortion on this end.

Additionally, I have them plugged DIRECTLY into my Lenovo T400 (plan on purchasing an E7 or uDac fairly soon), and the phones sound good on my end. Where did you get the phones? Were they used?

i noticed this with my shure srh750dj headphones. let them burn in and they will be more then satisfying.

Maybe it's EQ?

Does the static sound occur with any other pair of headphones using the same source?  Do you get this sound from other songs in your library?  If you say no, I would have to assume that there may be a problem with your M50s.  I have never experienced a similar problem with my M50s.

So far, my burn in time has been round 10-15 hours. IMO, give them some more burn in time yo.

Your audiofiles are more then likely sub par come back whe you have somethin gin the 192kbps and higher which is also mastered correctly.

It seems likely that the M50s are simply more revealing than your other headphones.  I don't believe you have a problem with the headphones, but you probably found a pair that is capable of reproducing the poor quality of the original source material of the track.  You claim to be using 256-320kbps files, but what were the original sources for these compressed files?  How were these encoded?
 

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Originally Posted by DTLIONS1013 

Listening really closely with other headphones, I can hear the same sounds, they're just much more prominent with the m50s

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Originally Posted by sonitus mirus 

It seems likely that the M50s are simply more revealing than your other headphones.  I don't believe you have a problem with the headphones, but you probably found a pair that is capable of reproducing the poor quality of the original source material of the track.  You claim to be using 256-320kbps files, but what were the original sources for these compressed files?  How were these encoded?
 

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Originally Posted by DTLIONS1013 

Listening really closely with other headphones, I can hear the same sounds, they're just much more prominent with the m50s

 

Yeah, I pretty much agree with this assessment.

It's doubtful that the M50's are the problem... but there is always that off-chance. More likely it's the soundcard, source files, or something else in the chain.

My M50s never distort even on bass heavy tracks with bass EQed and bass boost on my E7. Its probably your mp3s. Are they youtube rips? Some small recording studios record tracks very poorly. Also where did you get your M50s? There are fakes ones around.