[chee006]

Hello everyone at Head-Fi, first of all I am not an audiophile but I am striving to become one. So first of all I would like to say I LOVE MUSIC, like I would rather be blind than deaf (I know it sounds stupid) but it's true. I also listen to at least 10 hours of music everyday. I have always loved music since I was young, I use and still listen to old songs from the 50s to 60s mainly because my parents were oldies for my age, I am 20.

I use to rap alot and beat box quite abit, then later learned how to play the guitar and followed by the piano. I am currently majoring in broadcasting and learning alot about the technical side of audio, which I was too lazy to learn before. 

One of my first "audiophile" IEM was the Monster Turbine, which was their very first IEM product from Monster , this was before they partnered with Dr .dre's beats. Anyway, later it turned out that I had alot of wax in my ears which were disrupting my listening pleasure so i had to go to a specialist to have them remove it. I had many other IEM after that but I am currently using Shure 215  which is a very good set of IEM.
 
Recently I have bought myself a HD558 , which I can say is my very first audiophile headset that I own also my first Senheiser product. I have been googling about ways to improve my listening ability so i can better use my new set of cans. I have stumbled a few sites and blogs that helped me abit like how to equalize my headset and sine wave and pink noises, but nothing like a solid guide which I was hoping for, however I did find a program from Herman which actually trains you to become a proper listener.
 
Sorry for the long intro but if anyone can help me in improving my listening ability, that would be greatly appreciated.  
 
Thank you

 

[xkonfuzed]

Hi, welcome to Head-Fi. 
 
There's really no way to make your ears "better", but there is a way you can learn the terms and learn how to identify the characteristics/sound signature of each headphone. In my opinion, the best way is to listen to your music more and try it on different sources and amplifiers. It will give you an idea of how the sound of your headphone differs from one place to another. 
 
Also try to audition a lot headphones, cheap ones particularly. 

 

[chee006]

ok thx for the reply, yeah what i meant was the technical terms to use and also the ability to differentiate frequency and the quality of the sound. I am too looking for really dirt cheap ear piece or headphones so I can differentiate the sound. 

 

[PurpleAngel]

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Ok thx for the reply, yeah what I meant was the technical terms to use and also the ability to differentiate frequency and the quality of the sound. I am too looking for really dirt cheap ear piece or headphones so I can differentiate the sound. 

What sources do you plug your headphones into?

 

[blueangel2323]

Have you looked at this? http://www.head-fi.org/a/describing-sound-a-glossary There's also this, which has a lot of highly technical terms that you probably won't encounter until you start getting into amps and DACs, but... http://www.head-fi.org/a/glossary-of-terms
 
Beginner audiophiles usually start off discovering and appreciating the different parts of the frequency spectrum (bass, treble, mids - usually in that order) and then smoothness, neutrality and balance across the whole spectrum. Then when they get into amps and DACs is usually when they discover things like soundstage and imaging.
 
Is that you in the pic?

 

[chee006]

I plugged mine straight into an amp which is connected to my Endifier speakers which is then directly connected to my PC.
 
Thankks for the links, I'll check it out later. And no that's not my pic as I doubt urs is either