marcan
500+ Head-Fier
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One of the benefits of headphones is the ability to produce a sufficient acoustic pressure on the full spectrum with ONE driver. If you start with multi drivers speakers (I’m talking about different drivers for different frequencies), you will have phase and time issues between the different drivers. This issue has never been solved (unless you introduce other sonic problems linked to linear phase filters) and I don’t see how it could have been solved for IEM.
You can easily hear this:
•Deeps and peeks in the frequency response
•Lake of consistency (sibilance, you can separate highs from medium and bass of the same instrument)
•Multi-band compression
These problems are particularly obvious on voices.
I bought a Shure multi-driver (don’t know which one) and it was so obvious: Bass and trebles were there but medium was a ruined. So yes you could hear details in the trebles, but completely inconsistent with the medium. I sold them right away on ebay.
I can understand for people using it on a live stage (actually it’s the original market for these multi-driver headphones), but I really don’t see the point buying these kind of headphones, unless you want to damage your ears with huge levels. Technically, for the same price you should always be able to make better headphones with one driver…
You can easily hear this:
•Deeps and peeks in the frequency response
•Lake of consistency (sibilance, you can separate highs from medium and bass of the same instrument)
•Multi-band compression
These problems are particularly obvious on voices.
I bought a Shure multi-driver (don’t know which one) and it was so obvious: Bass and trebles were there but medium was a ruined. So yes you could hear details in the trebles, but completely inconsistent with the medium. I sold them right away on ebay.
I can understand for people using it on a live stage (actually it’s the original market for these multi-driver headphones), but I really don’t see the point buying these kind of headphones, unless you want to damage your ears with huge levels. Technically, for the same price you should always be able to make better headphones with one driver…