Hello everybody
I know it is an impossible task to find anything 'endgame' and that usually instead of headphones professional monitors are being used in the studios but still
I am looking for something that can be used as neutral headphones for sound mastering/mixing alongside my 600s but better, much much better quality (especially in terms of the low-frequency department)
I was lucky to listen to Sennheiser he1 back in the day and many other high-quality (or rather overpriced) headphones so I kinda have an understanding of how things should/could sound (while also having a decent setup at home/and at my friend's place)
From what I gathered I cannot stand the plastic/metallic sound, IIRC around a decade ago when I listened to Beyerdynamic dt 7-8-9 series this issue was very prominent to me. I also cannot stand overly aggressive high-frequency headphones that are prone to sibilance. My 3rd planar headphones are prone to this and they are pissing me off with ultrasonic attacks in some tracks, especially old Asian poorly mastered ones.
So...what options do I have? I don't really want to spend much, rather spend as little as possible, but to get 95% of the flagships that cost over 2-3k and so on.
I have a very vague memory of listening to some (most likely) tuned Audeze (prob LCD2?) and they were pretty neutral with deep and fast bass. But I didn't get to listen to them on my own tracks, so that could be a placebo and I do not remember the exact model and if they were moded or not...which Audeze headphones are considered to be 'best neutral with good bass'? Are there any other better options? Since then I have seen dozens of new headphone manufacturers (focal, new hifiman models, heddphones, abyss etc) it is so overwhelming to me so I don't even know where to look, haha
I know it is an impossible task to find anything 'endgame' and that usually instead of headphones professional monitors are being used in the studios but still
I am looking for something that can be used as neutral headphones for sound mastering/mixing alongside my 600s but better, much much better quality (especially in terms of the low-frequency department)
I was lucky to listen to Sennheiser he1 back in the day and many other high-quality (or rather overpriced) headphones so I kinda have an understanding of how things should/could sound (while also having a decent setup at home/and at my friend's place)
From what I gathered I cannot stand the plastic/metallic sound, IIRC around a decade ago when I listened to Beyerdynamic dt 7-8-9 series this issue was very prominent to me. I also cannot stand overly aggressive high-frequency headphones that are prone to sibilance. My 3rd planar headphones are prone to this and they are pissing me off with ultrasonic attacks in some tracks, especially old Asian poorly mastered ones.
So...what options do I have? I don't really want to spend much, rather spend as little as possible, but to get 95% of the flagships that cost over 2-3k and so on.
I have a very vague memory of listening to some (most likely) tuned Audeze (prob LCD2?) and they were pretty neutral with deep and fast bass. But I didn't get to listen to them on my own tracks, so that could be a placebo and I do not remember the exact model and if they were moded or not...which Audeze headphones are considered to be 'best neutral with good bass'? Are there any other better options? Since then I have seen dozens of new headphone manufacturers (focal, new hifiman models, heddphones, abyss etc) it is so overwhelming to me so I don't even know where to look, haha
