jerg
Headphoneus Supremus
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The glare issue with HE500 is indeed a bit more apparent with pleather earpads than with velours, but it's present with both kinds of pads. It seems to be a trouble-spot around 600~800 Hz area where there is some ringing.
The glare only gets nasty in very specific tracks (out of my whole music archive of over 5000 lossless tracks, there are about a dozen or so tracks that emphasize the glare issue), that have a ton of harmonic filters that emphasize the 600-800 Hz region.
Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udfnts8BiqM listen to it at loud volumes, and note the mid-range glare.
Any further discussion about HE500 will go to its thread now.
Oh yes jerg I meant resonance in the upper-midrange. Clearly this is what I meant...(good catch) I hope you're not this expert... LOL
"Funkiness to the timbre" seriously? With the velour pads the timbre is dead on. I'm very sensitive to this. I have no idea what you're talking about but I guess we have different ears. Pleathers? maybe a little timbre issue going on there though...
The glare issue with HE500 is indeed a bit more apparent with pleather earpads than with velours, but it's present with both kinds of pads. It seems to be a trouble-spot around 600~800 Hz area where there is some ringing.
The glare only gets nasty in very specific tracks (out of my whole music archive of over 5000 lossless tracks, there are about a dozen or so tracks that emphasize the glare issue), that have a ton of harmonic filters that emphasize the 600-800 Hz region.
Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udfnts8BiqM listen to it at loud volumes, and note the mid-range glare.
Any further discussion about HE500 will go to its thread now.