This Radioheads influence thing became suprise to me. Don't see Pink Floyd influencing a lot either. I think both are the kind of bands that many listen but copying them is not going to do you any good. You can not reach them. You can just try to make their music more avarage joe friendly...

Ayumi Hamasaki - Next level Released today, now just sitting and waiting for the post arrive.

Quote: Originally Posted by mark_h Some headphone manufacturers tweak the frequency response to best emulate the way sound in our environment enters the human ear and is registered at the eardrum. The peaks and dips are often their attempt to compensate for the delivery method of, say...

Quote: Originally Posted by EYEdROP But your not getting the fact that all systems are colored differently in their unique ways. Thats why flat is the industry standard because its not in favor of one coloration or one type of stereo. The music producer knows there are so many different...

Quote: Originally Posted by ciphercomplete Well to me compared to the K501 the K340 has a harsher, analytic sound. I just don't find those traits "musical" although I understand that some may disagree. The K501 is just so effortlessly smooth in how the different frequency ranges sort of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Acix Pro EQ, it's for studio, live shows and clubs. But if you want to do some EQ to Eric Clapton on your ipod... don't have one You can also do EQ of your headphones with passive componets. Reference earphones

If there would be some kind of standard and some decent QA for studios many problems hifi enthusiast face would be greatly reduced. But in the mastering studio there are people with different opinnions and the people pushing them to non ideal recordings. If I want to alleviate the mistakes they...

Quote: Originally Posted by Acix A pro audio reproduction systems... and pro acoustic treated room With exact same dimensions of course, otherwise soundstage would be different

Quote: Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek This is not necessarily true. The close coupling of a headphone's transducers to the ear creates a very unnatural frequency response which drastically distorts the sound and hides the true nature of the music. Some manufacturers attempt to...

Quote: Originally Posted by vvanrij 0,1? I thought we were long passed the 0,05 now? Thats studio equip I'm talking about here. Just pointing that it would be hard to spot differences bellow 0,1%. I think that even the crapiest studio EQ do better than that.

Quote: Originally Posted by vvanrij Yes I'm well aware of that, and thats why a 100% perfect EQ with infinite headroom would never induce distortion Now if you could point me to one of those, because I know that even that 7500$ SPL EQ can't do that . Isn't that a bit too much. I...

Here is a wikipedia link for you guys. On distortion and how to calculate it. Noise is not taken into calculation. Total harmonic distortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quote: Originally Posted by vvanrij Well its not as much over-simplified as incomplete. As added noise actually is also a waveform, and if that noise is bound to be carried in a already existing waveform, that would be changing it (and thus distortion). Its a contradiction to say the...

Quote: Originally Posted by vvanrij A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation From a engineers point of view, the ammount of distortion is calculated from...

Quote: Originally Posted by vvanrij More expensive EQ's are most of the times more basic and have less option than those cheap eq's who come with all fancy options and settings etc. There is a huge difference in quality between low-end consumer and hi-end pro stuff. Cheers. Very well