I need help regarding this topic and I am having trouble choosing. i currently have a pair of HD 202's which are closed and the frequency range is too low.. which worries me now cuz i am generally worried about sennheiser's flat sound in general now
That made me realize i need a more open sound stage.. and i need a little treble.. just enough for it to sound like a hiss but not so much that it sounds scratchy
the thing is.. i love rock and metal.. but I love other genres.. i need a headset that i can listen to all day long as I work (I'm a character artist and the music is necessary.. ti affects my drawings style.. the clearer and better the sound the better the drawing style)
thing is.. sometimes I am in the mood for fast hard hitting metal.. sometimes I am in the mood for soundtracks that HAVE guitar solos.. sometimes I am simply in the mood for orchestral
I have a limited budget.. iwas initially going to get the HD 558's for 128$ form amazon.com .. but I discovered recently one of the "problems" i have is my current sound card (Sound Blaster Z) is oversimplified and there isn't really a feature to amp the sound down.. so I need high resistance headphones.. when i searched for 150 ohm and 600 ohm the dt880's and dt990's cames up
I was very excited about the dt990 at 1st as I prefer a more colored sound.. btu I already play with my equalizer a lot.. so i started worrying that my current equalizer settings + 990 would sound overly colored
then again I have no idea how open back headphones sound like
i keep thinking to get the 880 because since it's semi open it's more of a "middle ground"
but I worry that it's 50$ more expensive and that some ppl called it "boring"
I personally like the design of the 880 too.. the 990 looks a little too plastic-y for my taste (the 150 ohm model)
but I am afraid that those opinions are not based on my own taste of music.. when i hear soundtracks I like the bass being pronounced.. btu when i hear metal I don't like it when the bass gets muddy i would rather the bass be very specific with a sharp treble
I need help here.. could anyone who possibly has both headsets test the following songs below?
1) Big Daddy Kills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZcbgyFbv0
I once heard this track on a set of very high quality in ears that made it so bassy I felt I was in the cinema.. i was going to cry.. i feel the dt990's would help with that but I worry that it wouldn't be god with fast hard hitting fast action-paced music
2) Evangelion - Les Betes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSg8kFZ4pNo
this track being an anime soundtrack is all over the place.. it has a guitar solo and it has instrumental.. so the headphones have to be good at BOTH or else it will either sound too guitar heavy or too instrument heavy.. also i worry that it sounds messy and muddy it needs to be very accurate for it to sound right
3) Inception - Dream is collapsing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imamcajBEJs
another instrumental bassy track. Both this and big daddy kills sound ok on my current headset.. .. the mroe rock and metal tracks get very messy and muddy
4) System of a Down - Marmalade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYonN5N40XE
another fast paced track
5) Zelda - Great Fairy Fountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IljKQ1BdHKI
some classic video game music.. want to know if it has body even thought it's a little 8-bit-y
including some remixed versions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdI_y4Urcso&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUk4yFPcvt0
Can anyone try to listen to those songs and compare the dt880 and dt990's for me and tell me which one is better over all?
Thank you so much this would help a lot since I wish to get it right this time.. and i live in Egypt so i will be importing these.. i have no options to return them :S
Thank you so much