Headphone positioning

[cerda]

The link in the original post is no longer working.

 

[coho66]

the new link address is:

http://home.t-online.de/home/meier-audio/tipstricks.htm

 

[fewtch]

I've found the HD-580s very uncritical when compared to other headphones I've used (particularly closed ones). In fact, this relative insensitivity to placement seemed kind of surprising at first.

 

[markl]

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Positioning is absolutely critical to the R10. If it's not in precisely the correct spot, there's major degredation to the sound.

"Major degradation?" Don't know how you define "major", in my experience it's not like they suddenly become screeching, honking unlistenable monsters if they are 1/2 a degree off. For me, the R10s have a large "sweet spot", I think this has a lot to do with the canted drivers that face your ears closer to the angle speakers in a room. OTOH, I found the position that works for them early on, now I throw them on like lightning without even thinking about it, its just habit.

EDIT: Other thing with the R10s is they have a relatively large ear-hole, coupled with large and thick pads. This provides for more potential combinations of placement for the R10 on your head, with more wiggle room inside the earcups, hence maybe more experimentation required with positioning. But once you've found it, it's easy to put them on correctly.

Mark

 

[wallijonn]

it may depend on how the drivers are positioned inside the pads.

you have angled drivers and you have parallel / direct firing into the ear canal drivers.

if you if you adjust the up /down position, and the forward /back position of the axis of the driver, by moving the headband forward, and provided that you do not make a up/down adjustment on the headband, what you are then doing is a diagnol adjustment.

in the case of angled drivers you are changing the firing axis onto a different part of the ear canal.

so what you could conceiviblybe doing is changing the perceived brightness / detail and therefore the perceived soundstageing.

But first you should really try the up / down adjustments. On my Beyers I find that I have to make them really snug (up/down). I find little need for a forward / back adjust ment, as I do it almost automatically. unfortunately this tends to give me top of head burn with the DT880.

On my Grado SR80 / Aiwa AK100 modification I adjusted the driver to my ear for best comfort and best sound, tuned to my ear, before cementing everything in place. It therefore is most comfortable without any need for adjustment.