analogsurviver
Headphoneus Supremus
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Oh thnx, better to keep the Austrian made CDs and don't be mislead by naxos and Hi-res audio Blurays
Our ears are our best judges to decide which record/heaphones/Sources/amps keep, so if a $360 sony IEM (XBA-A3) could reveal such faked acoustics.... i wonder how unforgiving a shure stat can be... yeah a 16/44.1 won over a 24/96 HAHAHA Strange for naxo their recordings i have are very good for a budget label this time they lived up to their name... Budget Label... hope they don¿t go bad as Brilliant Classics who started very good in early 2000's and now they'rent so good
Edit: I've found a review on why naxos "Faked it"
Yeah, its a bit of the problem the austrian recorded one has, some street noise (muffled tho) from the street adjacent, but it is bearable at least for me, they could just close the streets like when a fil studios do to fil a scene for a movie. f.e. like james bond they close zocalo square in mexico city for a few days instead of trying to fake it, even the reviewer said so that sounded quite a bit unnatural at times, the delay was a bit too long and "wet" in small rooms supposed to be intimate.
The fragment of the review was taken from amazon product page
Back on topic I wanna give a shot to the shures or a stat phone and see how my recordings sound on these phones
Well, such "off topic" posts reflect the real need of why headphones ( and other equipment preceeding them ) of this calibre is required in the first place.
I am a recording engineer - and finding a place with decent (enough...) acoustics that is relatively free of surrounding noise is getting ever harder and harder. Even if you swallow the recording in a relatively secluded church, with no heating in the winter, you still have to wait for the plane(s) from a 10 or so miles distant airport to end their depart or approach to landing. Often interrupting what otherwise would have ended as a stellar performance of a particularly inspired moment of the performers on the recording
Your remark that they should "close the surrounding" a la James Bond is merely a wishful thinking under the real world conditions. Producers of the 007 films are among the very few whose budget allows to do so - but recording music, particularly classics, operates on tiny tiny budget compared to movies. The proof? ALL the big classical labels are owned by film studios and not vice versa ... - need I to elaborate further ?
Well, DSP, soooo tooted to be the end game by some, will NEVER be able to recreate the magic of live performance - ever closer, but never cigar. Compared to the extremely precise positioning of the microphones in real good acoustic space without too much surrounding noise , ANY DSP, present or future, is simply far too crude.
For the purpose of monitoring the recordings, presently I use Havi B3 Pro 1 - price around 60$, appalling measurements, extreme sensitivity to tips with which they perform at their best in YOUR ear; BUT - they are really nice sounding over extended periods of time and they do give me enough information of what is going on and there are very few nasty surprises after the recordings are listened either immediately after on location with Stax Lambda or AKG K 1000 ( this requires people to leave the room, say during the pause in recording ... ) or on speakers back at home. I did try Sennheiser ie800 - and disliked them - with passion.
I do require loose ends of Havi to be tied up - and hope KSE1500 will prove to be that headphone of my dreams. Please do note the Havi does FAR better than closed Beyers and other usual suspects most often intended for monitoring.
