Hi Tadgh. Thanks for your review. I only found it today while browsing HF and I have to say that it's a really good review since you are looking at the intended application of the hero hone, rather than just whether you like it with your DAP or not!!
I'm a retired pro musician and have used headphones for 45 or more years so I have heard an extremely wide range of sounds both for performing into and for monitoring playback. Of course, that's along with listening to my DAP's .......
The DT150 has been the one that I have lived with for many years in the studio. Basically, it's tough and modular in construction. The lead can easily be taken out and changed for whatever I want. Sound is big and robust and as so many hi if people say.... rolled away in the treble. The thinking behind this is that it can therefore play very loud with no ear bleeding. Therefore, it make a superb 'studio performing' headphone since I can have the playback of the others up at life volume to play into which stops me kind of feeling held back when I have to record a track myself. So for me, it's been my studio pal for many years because of this.
Since getting more and more into hi if, I tried the same headphone on my home setup and it was kind of unrecognisable. It was rolled away, bassy and not what I heard in the studio. Reasons are complex, but engineers use eq and also we're talking live volume in the studio on many occasions.
I also have a V6 which, if played at life volume, would be painful. Reason being that treble that you rightly mention. As a headphone for listening out for extraneous noises, it's great. It also works well as a live 'monitoring' headphone, where again, you need isolation and you have to listen out for tiny buzzes and hisses etc. The V6 will pull that out. So again, for hi if, not perhaps the best.
I do find it ok on hi if playback as long as the volume is lower to the point where bass just about kicks into life. I leave it there and don't go any louder.
Recently, listening to some live music broadcast music was very revealing on the V6 where it pointed out. Noisy pots, poor stereo shifting and buzzes and hisses all over the place. Changes of microphone for instance revealed different noise levels in each mic. So the V6 is great for analysis.
That's why I felt that your review was really well thought out. You looked at the applications that the headphone is designed for rather than assuming that all headphones are made for hi if people. They're not.
Having said that I use the DT150 and V6 for different kinds of studio work though isn't any kind of recommendation for hi if people.
I tend to use others at home out of a collection that is ridiculously large. I have to say, not one headphone really does it all for me, depending on what I'm listening to and how I'm using it.
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I'm a retired pro musician and have used headphones for 45 or more years so I have heard an extremely wide range of sounds both for performing into and for monitoring playback. Of course, that's along with listening to my DAP's .......
The DT150 has been the one that I have lived with for many years in the studio. Basically, it's tough and modular in construction. The lead can easily be taken out and changed for whatever I want. Sound is big and robust and as so many hi if people say.... rolled away in the treble. The thinking behind this is that it can therefore play very loud with no ear bleeding. Therefore, it make a superb 'studio performing' headphone since I can have the playback of the others up at life volume to play into which stops me kind of feeling held back when I have to record a track myself. So for me, it's been my studio pal for many years because of this.
Since getting more and more into hi if, I tried the same headphone on my home setup and it was kind of unrecognisable. It was rolled away, bassy and not what I heard in the studio. Reasons are complex, but engineers use eq and also we're talking live volume in the studio on many occasions.
I also have a V6 which, if played at life volume, would be painful. Reason being that treble that you rightly mention. As a headphone for listening out for extraneous noises, it's great. It also works well as a live 'monitoring' headphone, where again, you need isolation and you have to listen out for tiny buzzes and hisses etc. The V6 will pull that out. So again, for hi if, not perhaps the best.
I do find it ok on hi if playback as long as the volume is lower to the point where bass just about kicks into life. I leave it there and don't go any louder.
Recently, listening to some live music broadcast music was very revealing on the V6 where it pointed out. Noisy pots, poor stereo shifting and buzzes and hisses all over the place. Changes of microphone for instance revealed different noise levels in each mic. So the V6 is great for analysis.
That's why I felt that your review was really well thought out. You looked at the applications that the headphone is designed for rather than assuming that all headphones are made for hi if people. They're not.
Having said that I use the DT150 and V6 for different kinds of studio work though isn't any kind of recommendation for hi if people.
I tend to use others at home out of a collection that is ridiculously large. I have to say, not one headphone really does it all for me, depending on what I'm listening to and how I'm using it.
Many thanks.