sacundim
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Ok, I'm a newbie at this, but I've been lurking for a few weeks, have been hooked, and now I'm looking to have a setup I really like.
The two headphones I have, and which serve me as my reference, are an old Sony MDR-V7 that I've had since 1997 or 98, and a Sennheiser HD555 that I got earlier this month (which I've run for approximately 50 hours by now, so they aren't totally unburned).
My rough impression is that the MDR-V7 is "brighter", and the HD555 is "smoother". Here's a more detailed breakdown, to the best of my newbie skillz:
The MDR-V7 is noticeably brighter. I don't know whether to label it "harsh" (don't have much to compare it against), but I did notice upon getting the HD555 that it was less fatiguing than the Sony. The bass sounds pretty tight, but it's not very punchy or fat.
The HD555 I find much darker, which I don't really like. On the other hand, it fatigues me less, and the bass sounds deeper and about as tight. There is a slight "smoothness" to the sound that I don't know how to put into words.
Mids sound pretty good to me on either headphone.
So, what would be a headphone that would combine the qualities I like in these two? I want something that is not very fatiguing, but sounds brighter than the HD555, with good bass.
From reading stuff, the Beyer DT-880 sounds appealing to me. The AKG 501 sounds nice except that it seems not to have a lot of bass response. The frequency graphs I've seen for the Senn HD595 look like it has more treble than the 555, but I don't know whether the small difference in the graph is meaningful.
The two headphones I have, and which serve me as my reference, are an old Sony MDR-V7 that I've had since 1997 or 98, and a Sennheiser HD555 that I got earlier this month (which I've run for approximately 50 hours by now, so they aren't totally unburned).
My rough impression is that the MDR-V7 is "brighter", and the HD555 is "smoother". Here's a more detailed breakdown, to the best of my newbie skillz:
The MDR-V7 is noticeably brighter. I don't know whether to label it "harsh" (don't have much to compare it against), but I did notice upon getting the HD555 that it was less fatiguing than the Sony. The bass sounds pretty tight, but it's not very punchy or fat.
The HD555 I find much darker, which I don't really like. On the other hand, it fatigues me less, and the bass sounds deeper and about as tight. There is a slight "smoothness" to the sound that I don't know how to put into words.
Mids sound pretty good to me on either headphone.
So, what would be a headphone that would combine the qualities I like in these two? I want something that is not very fatiguing, but sounds brighter than the HD555, with good bass.
From reading stuff, the Beyer DT-880 sounds appealing to me. The AKG 501 sounds nice except that it seems not to have a lot of bass response. The frequency graphs I've seen for the Senn HD595 look like it has more treble than the 555, but I don't know whether the small difference in the graph is meaningful.
