Cheap headphones or not enough power? | Headphone Reviews and Discussion - Head-Fi.org

MrPickle · Dec 27, 2011 at 1:06 PM

I got JVC-RX900s for christmas (due to the reviews here at head-fi). They are great, but I only have an iPod or my laptop as a source. I'm seeing a decent amount of distortion at the low end (deep/loud bass) in some rap and electronic songs. All of my music is variable-bitrate v0 at the absolute minimum, while most are 320kbps, so I'm pretty sure it's not the audio quality.

My questions are:

1) Are these headphones incapable of these frequencies ( meaning they are too cheap)?

2) Is it just a power issue? Would this be fixed with a cMoy?

MalVeauX · Dec 28, 2011 at 7:25 AM

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mrpickle said:
I got JVC-RX900s for christmas (due to the reviews here at head-fi). They are great, but I only have an iPod or my laptop as a source. I'm seeing a decent amount of distortion at the low end (deep/loud bass) in some rap and electronic songs. All of my music is variable-bitrate v0 at the absolute minimum, while most are 320kbps, so I'm pretty sure it's not the audio quality.

My questions are:

1) Are these headphones incapable of these frequencies ( meaning they are too cheap)?

2) Is it just a power issue? Would this be fixed with a cMoy?

Heya,

Probably a source issue. I've tried plenty of inexpensive headphones that were perfectly capable of slamming some low end tones without distorting and sounding ugly.

Try from other sources. Do you have an AV receiver around? A stereo? Anything else you can plug into? Test it on other devices before you start thinking of buying stuff. If it sucks out of all them, consider new headphones.

Very best,

MrPickle

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MalVeauX

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