MalVeauX
Headphoneus Supremus
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I agree with MalVeauX about a stock XB500 but an EQ'd XB500 can sound great in the whole range especially with price taken into account. Out of box it's a bit too unbalanced for sure though.
This EQ setting for mine will make them sound great with any genre.
I haven't yet heard any headphone that improves more by EQing than XB500 yet.
Heya,
I have to admit, the XB500's with some EQ tweaks are actually extremely impressive. I normally only use them for reference for bass. But I just played with my EQ on some acoustic and it was actually surprising how well the XB500 was able to take EQ settings and let vocals just pour out without sounding dampened and muffled. I'm listening to acoustic, right now, and it sounds good and not like a basshead can normally does for acoustic. So I agree 100% with you that this headphone is probably the only headphone I've ever EQ'd and was able to listen to two spectrums of music and they sound great. Dub and Acoustic. Who would have thought this little beast could do that.
Here's where I ended up on my EQ for acoustic.
This is pretty interesting. I may have to play a lot more with these and do a review.
Edit: Just did the same thing with some Rush to test it out for old rock. WOA. This headphone can do rock. I'm surprised. Never even though to try them for that haha. I may have to spend some more time on this XB500. For the $40 I paid, this is quite a headphone. It's doing what some $250 headphones do. Pretty impressive. And not just for bass.
Edit: It's too bad that EQ's on portable devices are so limited. This could be an exception little headphone, other than it's looks of course...
Very best,