Hentai11
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Here's where listening becomes an aesthetic experience, rather than a technical one. When I'm listening to a rock track, I try to aim for having all the instruments at an equal loudness. While having the cymbals loudest might be more accurate, to me it's less musical, less "true".
Clearly, this is my taste driving how I choose to hear music. But I feel that the mark of a superior set of phones is that they are not only accurate, but are good enough devices that they can accomodate the kind of sound that the listener wants to hear.
For example, I can EQ a pair of RE0s until they sound almost like what I want to hear. With similar, but inferior phones--say, Ety 6is--I'm doomed, I'm stuck with the sounds the phones give me.
Last time I stood next to a drum kit, the cymbals struck me as the harshest and loudest part. It took me a while to get used to hearing this portrayed accurately in the RE0 because almost any other earphone/headphone/speaker in this price range is not as true to the original. |
Here's where listening becomes an aesthetic experience, rather than a technical one. When I'm listening to a rock track, I try to aim for having all the instruments at an equal loudness. While having the cymbals loudest might be more accurate, to me it's less musical, less "true".
Clearly, this is my taste driving how I choose to hear music. But I feel that the mark of a superior set of phones is that they are not only accurate, but are good enough devices that they can accomodate the kind of sound that the listener wants to hear.
For example, I can EQ a pair of RE0s until they sound almost like what I want to hear. With similar, but inferior phones--say, Ety 6is--I'm doomed, I'm stuck with the sounds the phones give me.