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Audio Technica "boom, boom crack crack?"

post #1 of 6
9/29/11 at 6:31pm
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Yes, i know i've probably posted the most threads about the M50s in the history of head-fi but just thought i'd mention this.

I have a friend who went to the Audio Technica retail shop and listened to all their headphones there.

He described them all to have uncontrollable crackling and described the ATH-M50s to sound like "crack crack crack boom boom crack crack"

That has been quite a shock to me because i've heard so much about these headphones being amazing and have a 5 star average rating on amazon i thought they'd be fantastic. Anyone else get anything similar to this?

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post #2 of 6
9/29/11 at 6:40pm

Some people agree that the AD700 has a very prominent, grainy high end. I can back this up

after hearing a unit at a meet and thinking that it was faulty but I was re-assured that many

units sound this way in the treble region <shrugs>

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post #3 of 6
9/29/11 at 8:01pm
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Also, should i still get these, how much do they leak and would they require an amp for my $25 logitech speakers i forget the name of.

Thanks.

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post #4 of 6
9/29/11 at 8:05pm
If he was using an Ipod EQ, he's listening to the distortion from his Ipod
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post #5 of 6
9/29/11 at 8:15pm

crackle sounds like distortion coming from a badly administered EQ.

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post #6 of 6
12/11/11 at 10:20am

Are there any values in dB for the limits that some formats could handle? Like, +3-5db for the low frequencies .... +2-3 db for the higher ones?

Also how flexible is the mp3 format in accepting amplification from EQ? What about FLAC format? I suppose the speakers/headphones frequency response are a important factor here.

I have a Asus Xonar DX sound card and Sennheiser HD380 pro headphones and I hear quite frequently these kind of cracks between the melodies, at the start of the songs or quite badly rendered high tones.

The crackling sound is sometimes like the one heard on the old turntable(?) between two tracks.

Have a look over my EQ settings, could they screw the output on the headphones? 

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