Strangelove424
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Same for me. I used to get fatigued quite easily with the HD600 and could never really explain to myself why. I eventually sold it, got the DT880 and after a while I finally figured it out. I certainly understand why many people enjoy the boost in the midbass, but after getting used to a headphone that doesn't have it, it sounds bloated and exaggerated to me, and with lots of deep electronic music, it really wears your ears out. It's also a much more difficult thing to get rid of than the 880's heightened treble.
I see no problem with EQ either, by the way, except for maybe the fact that it may be unpractical in certain situations. Other than that, all headphones are merely interpretations of how things are supposed to sound. With EQ all you do is slightly alter that interpretation. It has very little to do with distortion, since all headphones have distortion and coloration of the sound in their own way.
Yep, fully agree. To me, it was kind of like being tapped on the head constantly. I also felt it to be bloated, and that is was swallowing up the nuances of other frequencies. I didn't mess with EQ when I was comparing the two, but I just felt like the 880s were already closer to what I wanted and would be easier to tune.
Yeah, it can definitely be impractical, I can't EQ my streaming music on the go for instance. There's no system wide EQ for Android (unless perhaps I root it, and I don't wanna go there). So sometimes it's just not possible.