It's complicated. I have returned the 660s. It was the B stock sale from Sennheiser. Its frequency response was correct, and I wouldn't have had any idea what I could improve with an EQ, so I didn't even try. But the sound, without EQ, was not what I had expected. I try my best explaining it...

Thanks! Babble: My math and DSP background is weak. The questions I asked are the ones where I get into a confused state and say "f..k". I had the idea to ask the people in the DSP forum on KVR. Their understanding is ... well some over there begin laying out math quite fast. And people with...

Get youtube-dl and do "youtube-dl -F URL", without quotes, and you'll see. When you want to see which streams are playing in the browser, you can right click and click stats for nerds. It shows the stream numbers like (251). These numbers are also in the list (at the very left) that youtube-dl...

I guess this is based on hope. I assume that the other technicalities in their homes are saturated, so they buy the thing that could in theory improve the sound. No one will persuade them that they cannot be the chosen individuals who perceive the promised improvements. For giving up their hope...

Audiokangaroo, I still wonder what's so important about sound plus ultrasound (the "waveform" without any loss), when the frequency response of headphones and speakers and rooms is actually very hard to control, towards objective or subjective goals. And one should notice it more easily, when...

Do you use an equalizer with the 560s? With EQ (highs -10db) my experience is great. It's an exceptional pair of headphones. The extended bass sounds great, and so is the sound stage. Without EQ I can't listen to it, unfortunately. Usually I liked to listen to somewhat bright headphones, in...

Off-topic, regarding high bandwidth: Shouldn't the "wave field" be as interesting as ultrasound? I just wondered why the topic was more about ultrasound, kind of. With a multi-channel setup (2, 3 and up) one would make use of more digital bandwidth, and one could reason about interference of...

Hi! If you had bought a DAC+AMP dongle and the sound was good, but the volume control was "jumpy", would you keep it? I bought a dongle that has buttons to increase and decrease the volume. But the volume control in Windows is like this: If I had altered the volume on the dongle, the volume...

Porta pro and 560s are different. Porta Pro bass plays at higher frequencies, and the Porta Pro sounds soft and pleasant. HD 560s offers lower bass frequencies, linearity, dynamics, and was made for analytical listening.

Hi! :) Sorry. I have absolutely no clue. What kinds of artefacts can be heard, which cannot? Several Problems. I didn't go the standard route in APO I guess. I used RBJ biquad filters to get better sound out of my headphones. I remembered I could use biquad filters, because ... they have been...

I went from a cheap dongle DAC to some desktop music gear having a better headphone output. At first (previous posting) I didn't notice a difference except for more warmth, and dismissed the idea to use the 560s for listening to Youtube music. But now I'm recognizing that with the better amping...

Got the 560s. They are comfortable, and I don't mind the cable microphonics, I guess because I don't touch the cable for some reason. To me it sounds linear, like, there's no coloration in the highs or mids that makes it sound wrong. But they have too much treble energy for my taste. I have no...

Don't really know. Actually I like performances of works from Grainger, Holst, Debussy, Gershwin, Pachelbel, Vivaldi. I like to use Youtube, so the quality of the recordings varies, but I believe none of them can be listener fatiguing, and the Sennheiser site says the 560s should be free from...

Does anyone happen to know other HD 5.. models that have a bump inside? I had one of these, back then it was advertised as having 3d sound or so and looked very similar. The bump did not cause any discomfort. I remember it being more like an equal sided bump, not a lengthy one. Are all those the...

Is waveshape the first thing that is analog instead of digital? Or is it how air moves, at the very end of the signal chain? I'm wondering. And since I am definitely not talented in DSP and electronics, I'm curious if someone could "stress" a DAC by using an all pass filter (?), like, adding...

It would be easier with one set of headphones indeed. The only thing that drew me into this idea, was that somehow the fatiguing peaks (DT 880, K 701) seemed to be at certain frequencies in the measurements with dummy heads, whereas untreated rooms would all differ. And there is (?) some verbal...

Can it also be rather wide plateaus in that region that make it too bright? I watched oluvs video about the K612, found the FR very balanced, ordered it and found it too bright with every source I just had, like if I had to tilt the whole FR. Which is actually a question. Maybe the wider the...

Yes, I understood it, thank you very much. It looks to me that a good consumer buying decision might be to build a headphone arsenal. To look what characteristic (that a brand goes on using) is still missing in the arsenal. Like, 600 and 650, and 880 and 1990, and 701 and 712. Plus some closed...

Don't know if my question belongs to here, but is listener fatigue dependent on a frequency response characteristic? When in a Youtube video someone claims a headphone becomes less bright after some time (and does not try to answer the listening fatigue matter), I'm reminded of my listener...

Yesterday I saw an interview with Floyd Toole from this year, and it was about one of their tests. Unfortunately I don't know what the equipment was, but I believe it was one speaker or a headphone. And he said and gestured that different test frequencies lead people to believe the tone was at a...

When the word imaging refers to a placement between to things, then I understand this. But if I was looking for the placement in a two-dimensional area, could headphones represent that? Or could they only represent this as I would hear it, if I never moved my head? I should admittedly try it...

True. My "math" picture was actually wrong because the numbers were flipped. If there's really a number like 2 meters encoded in the file, then 1 centimeter more distance to the transducer would change almost nothing. Maybe only, if at all, when someone created their own artistic work with their...

Sorry if I write much about my non-knowledge. @bigshot So, it's really hard to tell whether one headphone is better at something here. The seal makes the most difference in how the sound is presented, if I understand correctly, concerning imaging; the distance of the driver to the ear makes...

I wanted to see the price of the AIVA. But their Aliexpress link starts with 192.168. Using TLS might also be an idea for their website. Edit: Don't know, but isn't it a bit risky for Sivga not to use https on both websites? Also the small logo is blurred. And for Sendy they don't use a...

This is a good service, very well done, had fun trying it, but I didn't wait for the drop in the hard core music so I missed the huge bitrate drop there.... I get frightened to easily ; )...