I'd love to hear audio that has been processed by this device 10 times in a row. Whatever compression/EQ/etc is going on will rise to the front after being applied a buttload of times (unless there's something preventing this in real-time)

Can anyone that's had these for a while tell me if the ear pads flatten out as much as the DT880/990 velours do over time? I heard they have a different type of pad, and my main gripe with my DT's was that after a couple months they flattened out enough so my ears touched the inner foam and it...

  Thank you for writing this. "Neutral/accurate" sound (as you put it) is probably the only thing I've heard that isn't boring, to my ears. Nothing is under or over-represented. Music "just is." I'm consistently every day, wowed by my system, and disabling my EQ makes my HD-650s sound like a...

  You would if you were posting in the BBQ Chicken Science forum.

Hi all, really interested in this topic and I've read a number of pages but I had a question I haven't seen brought up (maybe missed it) - are there any level matched analog recordings showcasing the difference between these two types of DACs? I am going through inner turmoil because I'm a...

16 pages in less than 2 weeks, nice. Anyway, here's my thoughts on this subject. I was able to EQ my DT-990s to pretty damn near flat, through trial and error over the course of a few months, resulting in what sounded to me like the most realistic sound I've heard from a headphone. I had both...

  I disagree, but keep in mind I'm talking in the context of headphones not loudspeakers. I think what people here describe as "clarity and detail" are exactly what you can achieve with personalized EQ. Soundstage not as much, that's dependent on other factors. I think texture means different...

I asked Beyerdynamic directly and they told me the 'black 880/990 pads" are the ones used for the T1. Yet in my very brief time with the T1, I could have sworn that the pads were definitely thicker than the 880/990 pads and it made sense to me at the time considering the design of the phone. I'm...

  I believe this is the main reason for most, though I find it kind of weird... I've never heard a headphone that didn't impart a serious (usually undesirable) character onto the sound. If you want to hear the closest to what was recorded, "EQing away" the headphones/equipment is pretty...

Got my HE-400 yesterday from the black Friday sale and here's my impressions so far. Keep in mind that I might be coming at this from a different angle than most - I rely heavily on EQ to shape all of my headphones to remove unnatural peaks and neutralize the sound as best as I can.   Coming...

Long time equalizer and supporter of this thread here. I've been in hardcore mode the last few days:       What you're looking at is part of my sound card's built in EQ settings. I have fb2k set up to route the L/R channels to their own ASIO channels. With this, I can set up EQ for each...

Agreed with everything said about EQ making a big difference. I actually don't use a single sweep, but an application that lets me move a slider between frequencies how fast or slow I want. It's in the headphone EQ thread linked earlier. Another interesting thing to note is that I made my curve...

Quote:   Probably one of the best posts I've read here. People that say there's something-in-the-music that you just can't measure are trying to justify their purchase, and probably use that line to their angry spouse/gf/parents as well. Don't be so egotistical - our ears suck. They suck...

Quote:   And borrow his ears and eardrums, too... that treble boost might not work for you, but that old dude really seemed to be digging it... know what I mean?

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Quote:   This is how I find it works, too. I've read endless posts here about "accurate" sound being boring, but how is it boring when it sounds frighteningly real? If anything, realer than real, if that makes sense. Sometimes you can over-EQ your own physically flawed hearing out and...

Also don't forget that if you start equalizing a brand new headphone it's treble response will shift as the pads wear in and the drivers move closer to your ears. It's always good idea to re-visit and re-balance your EQ later down the road. Hell, my pads are more than worn in and I still do a...

Quote:   Why not? What is "biting treble"? EQ can always -remove- something, it's the attempt to add to a driver's response that isn't there to begin with, where you encounter problems. Bass is the typical one there. Anyway, when you say biting treble I'm imagining a spike in the response...

What I find interesting is that they chose one of the 701 variants (presumably because they have been widely known for burn-in claims?) and one of the main claims of the K701 that I have often read, is the "bass really opening up" after 300-whatever hours. On the measurements shown, bass is the...

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Quote:   Imagine in a slightly robotic female voice:   "Welcome to the Sound Science forum! I'm sorry, but description of the sound is not an adequate measuring device. To further help you diagnose the problem, please follow the steps previously described. Thank you."   You came...

Quote: Do people who need to justify their purchases fall into #2? It makes sense though. If I blew a handful of money on cables or something else "sketchy", why would I want to go through the steps to prove to myself & others that it was a waste?

I'm on the DAC = cables side of things and a believer of SO MANY other things you can do to improve sound quality before splurging on either of these.   However what really always bugged me was the way people describe them in terms of "bright", "warm", and what have you. That suggests severe...

If a graph tells you 6.5k is down by 8 db from 1k (for example), but you listen to a 6.5 khz wave and a 1 khz wave and they sound about the same volume, then boosting 6.5 by 8 db is going to be a disaster. And hey, you've just EQ'd by ear, so do that across the board... :)

Quote: Bingo, I have a different sine generating program but pretty much the same result whether using my monitors or headphones - about 17~k. (Male, 25)