clairyvic
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Since I only have 1 phone as a frame of refernece, is the aiaiai tma-1 "slow" or "fast?"
Since I only have 1 phone as a frame of refernece, is the aiaiai tma-1 "slow" or "fast?"
You'll hear two popular definitions of a fast headphone.
1, and the most popular: a bright/thin headphone with emphasis on treble, no matter its transient response and decay
2, a headphone with fast transient response and decay, no matter its sound signature.
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I'll put it this way, when listening to rock music do you want to bob your head and tap your toes when listening?
oh thanks!
No, fastness doesn't equal attack/energy IMO
It is not really a matter of opinion.
People on here are saying fast is essentially another word for bright. It is not the SAME as attack/decay but attack and decay means everything in defining fast or slow. If you have boomy bass for example it is going to be considered slow pretty much no matter how bright it is.
i don't think being bright IS fast. for example, i have a pair of etymotic HF5's that pretty much suck past 16khz and aren't anywhere close to bright, but they are very fast and bring out a lot of detail. I also have a pair of AD900's that are very fast and aren't bright. I had AD700's that were fast and ridiculously bright, i had a pair of Q701's which weren't even remotely bright that were fast. I don't think bloated bass will make a headphone sound slow either. I had a pair of IEM's once that were fast and had bloated bass, they sounded like crap however because of the bass, but they definitely handled transients well. i don't know what people here use as a reference for fast, but IMO a fast headphone is fast because no matter how complex the musical passages become, and no matter how heavy the bass is hitting, they continue to render the music flawlessly with no details smeared over. perhaps bright headphones do sound more detailed, but i dont see how that translates to fastness. i have a pair of radioshack bookshelf speakers that are bright and sound slow.