xdog
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Which headphones give most real (exact) voice reproduction?
And I mean here on a good/standard equipment (like for instance Xonar STX) not passed through some magical tube amplifier which 'rounds the unrouded'
Technically, there is something like voice distant feeling factor, for instance
- grados sr60 feel like sombody would sing right into my ear, which is by no means not realistic (too much color in the voice)
- Hifiman he-500 make the voice like song from a little bit far away, but that is acceptable level
The headphones, which I found to be most near is
- some hypothetical thing between Sennheisers 540 (too much lets call it microdetail in the voice) 560 (mine feel like they have upper mids/lower highs emphesis, but that may be from used pad) and HD600 (probably the nearest)
- Bayerdynamic DT150 but the voice is sometimes a bit massless (lacks in bass/mids section)
Some headphones which don't seem to do that much good job is:
- HD800, too big area of vocals with some mass, little bit of grayness, siblance
- K701 some little midbass hump, + some exageration in strenght/color (especially femal)
- HE-500/LCD2 - the details of voice are not sufficiently pronounced (like spit, ssss, mouth sounds) and too much mass
I would guess that sr009 would be the anwser; but maybe some other propositions will follow
And I mean here on a good/standard equipment (like for instance Xonar STX) not passed through some magical tube amplifier which 'rounds the unrouded'
Technically, there is something like voice distant feeling factor, for instance
- grados sr60 feel like sombody would sing right into my ear, which is by no means not realistic (too much color in the voice)
- Hifiman he-500 make the voice like song from a little bit far away, but that is acceptable level
The headphones, which I found to be most near is
- some hypothetical thing between Sennheisers 540 (too much lets call it microdetail in the voice) 560 (mine feel like they have upper mids/lower highs emphesis, but that may be from used pad) and HD600 (probably the nearest)
- Bayerdynamic DT150 but the voice is sometimes a bit massless (lacks in bass/mids section)
Some headphones which don't seem to do that much good job is:
- HD800, too big area of vocals with some mass, little bit of grayness, siblance
- K701 some little midbass hump, + some exageration in strenght/color (especially femal)
- HE-500/LCD2 - the details of voice are not sufficiently pronounced (like spit, ssss, mouth sounds) and too much mass
I would guess that sr009 would be the anwser; but maybe some other propositions will follow
