Balisarda
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Count me among those who have found the treble of the HD 800 too pronounced, but I wonder if this is a partial solution:
I read somewhere that the HD 800 angles its drivers 15 degrees off parallel from the ears, to present sound as coming more from the front than from the sides--more like loudspeakers than traditional headphones.
This makes sense as long as one measures the 15-degree offset on a vertical axis relative to the ears, but moving the headband forward or backward on one’s head must change the point of aim. That is, the offset drivers aim sound from front to back only when they sit at a particular angle on your head; moving the headband forward or backward must change the point of aim upward or downward.
In practice I find that moving the headband forward on the head deemphasizes the treble. It may also sacrifice some of the open soundstage that really sets the HD 800 apart for me, but more subtly, I think, than the softening effect it has on the treble.
Give it a try?
I read somewhere that the HD 800 angles its drivers 15 degrees off parallel from the ears, to present sound as coming more from the front than from the sides--more like loudspeakers than traditional headphones.
This makes sense as long as one measures the 15-degree offset on a vertical axis relative to the ears, but moving the headband forward or backward on one’s head must change the point of aim. That is, the offset drivers aim sound from front to back only when they sit at a particular angle on your head; moving the headband forward or backward must change the point of aim upward or downward.
In practice I find that moving the headband forward on the head deemphasizes the treble. It may also sacrifice some of the open soundstage that really sets the HD 800 apart for me, but more subtly, I think, than the softening effect it has on the treble.
Give it a try?