lavendermist
New Head-Fier
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Hello to you all,
I am new in this forum and would like to introduce myself. I am an enthusiast of mostly classical music with horn speakers combined with an SE-tube-amplifier and I am 45 years old.
Having little children I am forced to use and search for a headphone rig.
I auditioned some rigs, made the big mistake of not auditioning them at home and liked Stax very much. I bought a Stax 507 headphone with a SRM-006tS-tubeamp. After listening 3 times for half an hour at moderate levels (amp at 5 to 12 the loudest) it was way too much for me and my ears with far too high levels in the highs.
A couple of days later combined with a lot of stress at work I suffered from tinnitus at about 14kHz from which I am now slowly recovering after cortisone treatment. The last few days I had the first time with a few hours without any tones in my ears and it is getting better every day. What a relief!
My ENT- specialist, to whom I have much contact at the moment, said that my ears are unusually good with very good hearing measured up to 10kHz. Listening to sweeps I coud hear frequencies up to 16kHz easily, but now my limit is about 14kHz. My ENT told me that that amount of hearing is still very unusual for a 45 year old. That supposed advantage turns out to be a disantvantage now.
After a decent pause I intend to listen again to headphones at very moderate levels, but at the moment I seem to hate every sharper and louder tone, especially compressed music and signals with lot of loudness added. Too much loudness seems to be typical now for children’s programs on TV.
So the question is: What to do now?
My honestly very conservative plan:
Already having a Sennheiser HD650 I will probably add a HD800s (if it is mellower than the HD800) with a HDVD800-amp (DSD-Version). They seem to be products that match. I am grateful for any idea, hint, tip or whatever.
One of the few companies with decent know how regarding the anatomy and functionality of ears seem to be Sennheiser. They also supply audio equipment for medical purposes. The last few weeks being in medical treatment I saw Sennheiser products everywhere. That is a big advantage in knowing how to transfer knowledge to other products, which do not have to be directly related to medical equipment.
I am grateful for any help, suggestions and tips!
Martin
I am new in this forum and would like to introduce myself. I am an enthusiast of mostly classical music with horn speakers combined with an SE-tube-amplifier and I am 45 years old.
Having little children I am forced to use and search for a headphone rig.
I auditioned some rigs, made the big mistake of not auditioning them at home and liked Stax very much. I bought a Stax 507 headphone with a SRM-006tS-tubeamp. After listening 3 times for half an hour at moderate levels (amp at 5 to 12 the loudest) it was way too much for me and my ears with far too high levels in the highs.
A couple of days later combined with a lot of stress at work I suffered from tinnitus at about 14kHz from which I am now slowly recovering after cortisone treatment. The last few days I had the first time with a few hours without any tones in my ears and it is getting better every day. What a relief!
My ENT- specialist, to whom I have much contact at the moment, said that my ears are unusually good with very good hearing measured up to 10kHz. Listening to sweeps I coud hear frequencies up to 16kHz easily, but now my limit is about 14kHz. My ENT told me that that amount of hearing is still very unusual for a 45 year old. That supposed advantage turns out to be a disantvantage now.
After a decent pause I intend to listen again to headphones at very moderate levels, but at the moment I seem to hate every sharper and louder tone, especially compressed music and signals with lot of loudness added. Too much loudness seems to be typical now for children’s programs on TV.
So the question is: What to do now?
- Are there any opinions regarding tinnitus-friendly headphones and amplifiers that match - price being not so important at the moment.
- Combined with which DAC?
- Thoughts about EQing the high frequenies via software? – Software suggestions for Mac? – jRiver- Software-Player with FabFilter Pro-Q 2 as a plugin?
My honestly very conservative plan:
Already having a Sennheiser HD650 I will probably add a HD800s (if it is mellower than the HD800) with a HDVD800-amp (DSD-Version). They seem to be products that match. I am grateful for any idea, hint, tip or whatever.
One of the few companies with decent know how regarding the anatomy and functionality of ears seem to be Sennheiser. They also supply audio equipment for medical purposes. The last few weeks being in medical treatment I saw Sennheiser products everywhere. That is a big advantage in knowing how to transfer knowledge to other products, which do not have to be directly related to medical equipment.
I am grateful for any help, suggestions and tips!
Martin
