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Headphoneus Supremus
Well, he was serious. Wallijonn stopped over last night and we had the first ad hoc Phoenix headphone meet. He left my his new cans for me to audition for a week, but at a price: I have to write up a review of them. Why would he do such a thing? Basically he is just a helluva nice person, and enjoys sharing music and sources. We had a blast comparing phones, but he now needs K1000s. I warned him before he listened to them, honest, but he took a chance, and got hooked! Next time I will add the sub
On to the open ATs. I will honor the request and post a review next weekend. For now all that I will say is that I like them, and they are great for vocals! I also did some response plots, which are attached. Caveats for this data: I did this with an uncalibrated mic and soundcard, so they are only valid for comparison to one another. I also made no effort to match signal levels since I wanted the traces separated. I did use a dummy head (mine).
I used pink noise, since my f-sweep does not seem to be working correctly.
The wobble on the high end is due to cavity interactions for the most part. More experimenting required. LF rolloff was a surprise. None of these cans are going down to bedrock. My mic is actually optimized for LF, so I am not sure what to make of this development. Considering that the K1000 trace is exactly where I expected it to be, I tend to believe the results. Oh, the 2k peak in the K1000 response is real. I have always heard it there, but haven't figured out what is causing it. I will track it down eventually. The "barney" trace is the HD600s again, with the 25' purple Canare star quad cable.
Obviously the f response is only a part of the story. It does give some awfully good hints for tweaking, que no?
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On to the open ATs. I will honor the request and post a review next weekend. For now all that I will say is that I like them, and they are great for vocals! I also did some response plots, which are attached. Caveats for this data: I did this with an uncalibrated mic and soundcard, so they are only valid for comparison to one another. I also made no effort to match signal levels since I wanted the traces separated. I did use a dummy head (mine).
The wobble on the high end is due to cavity interactions for the most part. More experimenting required. LF rolloff was a surprise. None of these cans are going down to bedrock. My mic is actually optimized for LF, so I am not sure what to make of this development. Considering that the K1000 trace is exactly where I expected it to be, I tend to believe the results. Oh, the 2k peak in the K1000 response is real. I have always heard it there, but haven't figured out what is causing it. I will track it down eventually. The "barney" trace is the HD600s again, with the 25' purple Canare star quad cable.
Obviously the f response is only a part of the story. It does give some awfully good hints for tweaking, que no?
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