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Does unbalanced volume in headphone drivers correlate with decreased sound quality?

post #1 of 7
1/16/12 at 6:47pm
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My Grados have unbalanced volume in the left driver and I'm just wondering if this deteriorates sound quality as well.  I'm getting them repaired soon, but for the past few months I've just been using my DAC to level out the volume

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post #2 of 7
1/16/12 at 8:42pm

Yes, for one thing, stereo imaging is off. Anything else? Probably not.

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post #3 of 7
1/16/12 at 10:53pm

HA, besides unbalanced volume, some headphones can have unbalanced frequency responses.

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post #4 of 7
1/18/12 at 7:15pm
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HA, besides unbalanced volume, some headphones can have unbalanced frequency responses.


Like say, all of them...

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post #5 of 7
1/18/12 at 7:33pm
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Originally Posted by khaos974 View Post

HA, besides unbalanced volume, some headphones can have unbalanced frequency responses.


Like say, all of them...


I meant you get a different frequency response for left and right drivers. Some brands are better than others at matching drivers.

 

 

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post #6 of 7
1/18/12 at 7:44pm

Ok then.  Some companies do a particularly poor job of matching FR between drivers.

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post #7 of 7
1/19/12 at 2:57am
depends on the control. usually companies like AKG has pretty well control check over their drivers and usually always their reference models and studio models are very well matched between drivers. i think beyerdynamic and audeze are known to have little iffy quality control even for their flagship models. only actual headphone beyer takes complete quality over is their DT48 models,especially the DT48A. the DT48A needs to always be matched between drivers with absolute precising cause meant for medical research and audiometric purposes. the beyer T1 is not nearly well matched even though it cost over twice as much and considered their flagship. i don't know bout other companies though.
Edited by RexAeterna - 1/19/12 at 2:58am
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