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I was simply asking posters here is they had an opinion , i never said custom 1s are better than SE530s (they are not) i just said they were underated against similarly priced products that i have owned/tested.
I didn't say you said the Custom 1's are better than the SE530's. If it appeared that way, perhaps I was unclear in my wording.
The Se530s in my opinion are lacking in high frequency range and are laid back to the point of collapse, i also think there is a unatural emphasis to the mids.
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I'm not sure about the highs "collapsing", but I won't bother arguing.
Ok, so let's assume you are correct and there is an "unnatural" emphasis on t he mids. I don't know that I would call it "unnatural", but I do agree there is an emphasis on mids.
Here's the deal, all headphones, speakers, whatever, color sound to some degree, right? Who's to say what's right or wrong. This is where subjectivity comes in.
The way I see it is this: An artist puts out a CD and then tons of people listen to it on millions of different kinds of equipment (can be headphones, speakers, home audio, portable audio, car audio, PA system, you get my drift.)
There are thousands (if not millions) of artists and certainly millions of ways to listen to them.
In my mind, the only real way to KNOW is to ask each artist how their music sounds "best". Impossible.
I suppose you can scientifically look at at graphs ad conclude that a headphone with a completely flat response is the most "accurate" in some regard. BUt does that mean it sounds best.... No.
My point is that it is really hard to talk in terms of "better" and "worse".
You're entitled to your opinion in that regard, and I'm entitled to mine. I just don't know that there is any "truth" out there.