Adrian Peterson
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Should i buy it?
They're more for enjoyment than critical listening.
They're too different sounding to studio monitors to make a good complement.
Don't get me wrong, they're awesome headphones, but you should get something like the Beyerdynamic DT880 for that job.
They're more for enjoyment than critical listening.
They're too different sounding to studio monitors to make a good complement.
Don't get me wrong, they're awesome headphones, but you should get something like the Beyerdynamic DT880 for that job.
I happen to be in the professional classical music world and have been a part of many a recording process with labels such as Reference Recordings, Naxos, and some in house orchestral labels. I have seen first hand, studio producers and mixers using hd600.
Do you think they're right to be using the HD600?
Just because they use it, doesn't necessarily make it a good choice.
If one Classical producer doesn't know any better, but tells all his producing buddies how good the HD600 is, and they all start using them, then that's a huge problem.
I'm not saying I'm right, just offering a reasonable counter-argument to a headphone that tends to be more forgiving to a recording than revealing.
The overall music presentation would be more to my taste too through an HD600, but for a pro recording, I'd want to hear any problems in the recording highlighted quickly by something like a DT880.... then once it's finished I'd enjoy it through something like and HD600.
They're too different sounding to studio monitors to make a good complement.
They're too different sounding to studio monitors to make a good complement.
Which monitors? Not all studio monitors sound the same. My HD600 wasn't too far off the KRK Rokit 6 when I got to listen to them. If anything, it was probably the earpads that made the HD600 sound a bit sharper in the treble (I just picked them up used at the time I got to listen to the KRK running off a Benchmark DAC1). If there's anything that makes them less ideal for a recording engineer, it's if he's not familiar with how much the earpads can change the sound. Keep a spare set and rotate them often.