K240 Sextett for EUR99 mint other than needing elastics and new damping foam AD900X for AU$70 HD545 for US$40 KSC75 (the 5 times I've bought them new) ;)

Your brain will normalise the frequency response after a while. If you only listen to K701s then you come to accept the K701 frequency response as being the reference for flat sound and every other headphone becomes bass heavy by comparison. Same kind of thing if you listen to say Beyerdynamic...

Where did it not add up? If they are 97dB/mW they produce 97dB SPL when given 1mW of power. Every doubling of power gives +3dB so 2mW would give 100dB, 4mW 103dB and so forth 300mW is just over 2^8mW (256mW), so you get just over 97+8*3 = 121dB SPL The reason 6xx (and we'll, any headphone for...

Which implies that the transients of the music are hitting over 121dB so your listening level is dangerously loud. A safe listening level is no more than about 90dB SPL. Perhaps transients hit 100dB, requiring about 2mW for a HD6xx, 150 times less than the amp is capable of. People are kidding...

Mass manufacturing, social acceptance of more expensive headphones. Probably not more than 10 years ago, 99% of people would scoff at spending more than $50 on a pair of headphones. Now it's not uncommon for the average joe to spend $300 on a pair of bluetooth, noise cancelling headphones with...

300mW on HD6xx is good for over 121dB SPL. I think it'll be enough.. unless your goal is to go deaf within a day.

For those wanting to try Beyerdynamic pads, here's my 2c: Get the DT990 pads, not the DT770 pads. The 770 pads add far too much midbass which drowns out the treble and lower bass. The DT990 pads give a far more balanced sound. There isn't as much bass as the stock vinyl pads but it extends deep...

All EQ on a PC is done in software, regardless of having a fancy soundcard or not. Whether or not clipping occurs when you add gain via EQ without providing an overall amount of attenuation depends on the specific software implementation (if the software developer gave themselves any audio...

How good are the Vesper Audio pads! Here's my ATH-ESW9 with Vesper Audio pads and headband, and the only other closed headphone I've ever got along with; DT770 80ohm. The ESW9 with these pads have the most incredible bass I've heard from a headphone. Been seriously considering a pair of Darth...

I hope you're not considering having one HD280 driver and one non-OEM driver in the same headset - that would be annoying being unbalanced, even for loud tracking. There's no real reason a driver from an open headphone can't work closed. Headphones work a bit different to full sized speakers in...

Try epoxy for a permanent fix instead of sugru. You can also get epoxy putty if creating a dam for the liquid stuff is too difficult. I'd imagine all the parts of a sextett are NLA, except the earpads. You're probably best off looking for a parts donor pair (from ebay, facebook marketplace...

Spotted this on a listing for some HD545s. A small plastic enclosure secured to each earpad with a metal hook, and long cable with Sennheiser plugs. Does anyone know what they are?

DT880 treble is far from neutral. HD58x and HD6xx are closer to neutral imo. Out of what i'd own I'd pick the ATH-AD900 as being closest to neutral but they are no longer available. The AD900X is a different beast and not really worth the money imo.

Sounds like you might have two 'problems' going on, you need to isolate which thing is causing which 'problem'. 1. You're confused why the signal would be quieter from an amplifier when the volume is at 11 o'clock. On low-gain, the gain of the magni 3 is only 6dB which is subjectively a little...

That's correct, when you use wireless headphones natively on your DAP (no additional wired to wireless dongle) you're not using the DAC or amplifier built into your DAP so the quality of those components is irrelevant. Where there may be a difference between DAPs when using wireless headphones...

Typically* the passive headphone components (drivers/pads/head positioning) are most important (95%+), then DAC/amp (<5%) and lastly encoding (<0.5%). Decoding by the wireless receiver has no impact as the loss in lossy formats only occurs during encoding, not decoding. If you are comparing two...

Depends what you're looking for. The 880 is essentially a 990 with more damping material (felt) in front and behind the driver so the bass and treble are lessened. The same reasons I like the 990 (elevated bass and treble) make them slightly fatiguing over long periods and with certain genres...

Been out of the loop for the better part of a decade (still listening, but not seeking any new headphones), so mine in the order of head time would be: 1) Audio-Technica ATH-ESW9 - I brought these to work because I needed 'phones for work and these were getting no head time. After replacing the...

Not necessarily. AAC, like MP3, is an example of a lossy format - upon encoding uncompressed audio (e.g. WAV) into an AAC file, data has been selectively thrown away (therefore quality has been permanently lost) in order to achieve a smaller file size. This is in contrast to lossless encoding...

I've only just received DT770 Pro 80ohms, but I find the amount of bass just right. They don't leave me wanting any more bass, clamping force or vinyl earpads - that would just make them more fatiguing and uncomfortable to listen to for long periods imo.

Mass loading also lowers the resonant frequency of whatever you are adding mass to. For ideal damping, you'd want it lower then the driver's resonant frequency but that may not be practical without taking up too much space inside the headphones. Having the enclosures resonant frequency around...

They look pretty and cause a placebo effect. Reminds me of that thread where someone cut open some expensive power cable which ended up to be a regular power cable run through garden hose and filled with sand lol.

Just put a thin circle of blutack (1mm thick) on the cup behind where the driver is.   Foam won't do much to damp headphones because the wavelengths are long, and the distance between the driver and the cup isn't. Also if you put too much in you will effectively make your driver enclosure...