I gathered up a corpus of Head-Fi user reviews (the non-forum ones) of five different headphones: Audeze LCD-2, AKG K 701, AT M50S, Senn HD 598, and Senn HD 650; and harvested some frequency response data for those phones from Tyll's measurements at InnerFidelity. The aim was to map out some of...

Have a sip of water and arrange your rear comfortably onto your IKEA chair, it's time to enjoy the Sennheiser headphone – the HD 530. (But if you don't own them, you can buy a pair for the current going price of 10–30 euros used.)   The HD 530 – images here – were released in the late '80s...

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Hey,   There's a good thread about the AKG K 14 (and 314) here: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/209261/akg-k14p-portable-earphone-review. However, I didn't want to necro it because it's actually in the full-sized headphone section.   Someone in that thread said the K 14/314 do...

I bought the K14P buds to replace my old Sony E828. From what I had heard (as in, heard others say) the K14P is supposed to sound bright and clear. Well, mine sound boxy and muted. I was actually horrified when I first tried them. I'm not good at describing sound, but classical music sounds...