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Originally Posted by EYEdROP /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Comparing your other headphones to a DT48 is simply apples and oranges.
Think of it this way: Basically every headphone out there is designed to emulate the sound of good speakers inside a room. This is all fine and dandy as most music is recorded with speakers in mind. The DT-48 are different. They DONT try to emulate speakers in a room. Instead they aim to sound like a headphone, which means they have no 'super bass" earcups, no resonances in the ear cup, no concert hall effects or S-logic, no porting, etcc...
The best way to describe the DT48 is it sounds like a song that is stuck in your head. You hear the tune perfectly, but there is no physical music going into your ears. Its basically like listening to a perfect hologram of the music without the actual physical part vibrating your ears or resonating.
Most other headphones raise bass to increase impact/slam to emulate the vibration of a sub. Not the DT-48. Instead it does bass with very little impact but very very clean and precise. Headphone drivers that are only 40mm in size dont normally have "slam" and thump until you boost the bass around 100hz to help. But this colors the sound.
They are very very neutral with excellent harmonics, speed, timbre accuracy, and resolution. Not everyone likes the sound of a headphone though.... Most people expect a WOW type of powerful sound on first listen. But the DT48 are very plain yet very correct sounding if that makes sense.
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Extremely well said. How old are you again? Just to add to the wonderful post, the DT48 is unconventional & very unique, no headphone is like it. This is a fact, not a opinion. Doesn't mean it's good or bad. it does, what a lot of audiophiles & manufacturers would call wrong, lacking in good sense, or odd. Again, think back to 1937, what headphone standards were there? They were the first ones. 2 channel was the king in those days, & they made a headphone strictly for left to right listening. They wanted to emphasis the musical experience & nothing else.. I'm sure the engineers would have snubbed the idea, if they were told they needed to make the DT48 have a larger then life SS to replicate a speaker system. I'm sure they would just say.. Then buy speakers..
Things were much simpler & less complicated in those days
In this day & age this doesn't work.. People want a headphone that sounds like a speaker system in terms of depth & spaciousness.. & degrade headphones that have characteristics of, a, ummmm.. Headphone. which is a oxymoron IMO.
Think of Roy Jones JR as a IE.. He is very unconventional, & does things trainers teach you not to do.. Leading with a hook instead of a jab, among other things..But he gets away with it cause of his athleticism. The DT48 gets away with it too in the audible sense.. Maybe sounding like a headphone isn't so bad & actually has benefits.. Maybe having highs, bass, treble, on steroids isn't the ultimate listening experience. & people wonder why most headphones have recessed mids.. Cause they 'get in the way' of the bigger picture.
In the end, the DT48 are 'bland', 'not fun'. They are the plain Jane next door. The girl who never gets asked to the dance, & the guy that never got in with the cool kids in HS..But for that same reason, I love them..
