markanini
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I re-visited these phones recently after looking for a pair of closed 'phones to hand out during tracking sessions that I'll be engineering. I say re-visited cause I owned a pair years back which unfortunately got stolen. Since then I've owned and auditioned a few nice phones so it's been interesting to hear these phones again with new ears as it were. Here's how they sound to me: A hump in the low-mid bass, slight honk in the mid-mids and rolled off treble save for a peak between 7-10kHz. None of these quirks manifest in any extreme way thankfully. Frankly I've auditioned closed phones 2-3 more expensive which were worse. Overall the presentation is fairly balanced with dark and dry leanings. Not a lot of "sound stage" or gut wrenching bass if that's what you're after. Most of the material I've auditioned to them with, ranging from classical, jazz, classic rock, modern rock is handled well with the exception being some densely produced modern rock which might come across as busy or incoherent. A thing I appreciate is that the lower-upper-mids are well defined which helps you hear the key and the chords in tracking situations. For pure listening it has the effect of making guitars and synths sound great. In a way the emotional impact is still there even if you didn't hear the drummer sneeze in the background like on Ety's. I've concluded they'll work fine for my purposes.
