| Originally Posted by sgrossklass Take a look at the frequency responses of both, which basically confirm "mostly neutral" vs. "fun": http://graphs.headphone.com/index.ph...nnheiser+HD595 http://graphs.headphone.com/index.ph...rdynamic+DT990 The DT990 has a frequency response not totally unlike the K240S, another "groovalizer": http://graphs.headphone.com/index.ph...KG+K240+Studio (Note that the updated DT990 that's supposed to be out in November may not sound like the current version.) |
| Originally Posted by 3lusiv3 The HD595 have a more neutral, airy sound, are more refined sounding, don't clamp as tight and are better all rounders compared to the DT990Pro. |
| Originally Posted by sgrossklass Take a look at the frequency responses of both, which basically confirm "mostly neutral" vs. "fun": http://graphs.headphone.com/index.ph...nnheiser+HD595 http://graphs.headphone.com/index.ph...rdynamic+DT990 The DT990 has a frequency response not totally unlike the K240S, another "groovalizer": http://graphs.headphone.com/index.ph...KG+K240+Studio (Note that the updated DT990 that's supposed to be out in November may not sound like the current version.) |
Originally Posted by amartignano 
Watching [the graphs] without listening (usual a very unfortunate operation, it's better to listen and then to see which can be the eventual links with the measures), it could be pointed out that the DT990 has a particularly present sound in low range, almost "swollen", empty in the mid-high, range and a peaky increasy in high range. But this is not exactly what I've heard . We can analyze it better after the listenings: what we can watch as an excessive increase in low range is so wide, that is probable that our brain takes that as "basal" level and notices instead a sweet decrease in mid and midhighs range (but the truth imho is not even this, although is the "right way", but there is more). The increase in the highs is decidedly less frightful to listen than what can appear from the measure, and it has already described before. We can try to analyze better: for the low range we have heard its roundness and pleasantness in the "underlining of the depth"; in the graph we see well the "maximum" at 50-70 Hz. Correct. I think that in the mids and midhighs response, there is the "secret" of the soundstage of the DT990. The decrease in this range of frequency is interpreted by the brain (at least by mine) like soundstage-info, like air, distance and depth. Perhaps between all the cans that I've heard, the DT990 is the only one "truly diffuse field equalized". In fact, at listening there is not decrease in mids, all seems (is) balanced, but the soundstage is truly amazing. This is my hypothesis, and is index of an accurate and very "smart" design of the headphone, in order to achieve the maximum pleasure of listening. Imho Beyer had a very good result in this, with a loss in "correctness" that is almost meaningless in normal home listenings. |
| Originally Posted by 3lusiv3 The HD595 [...] don't clamp as tight [...] compared to the DT990Pro. |
| Originally Posted by amartignano Yes, the DT990 is a "fun headphone", but the headphones graphs shows "too much" of that. Some of this response goes imho in the soundstage. |
| Originally Posted by amartignano Always-hungry-trolls never get fed enough, don't you?
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