Digital-Pride
Headphoneus Supremus
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I don't think so. Because if I EQ the HD650 to boost the treble, the HD650 is still blurred while the SRH940 is not. The NFB12, if dark at all, definitely doesn't sound blurry on the SRH940 so it's definitely not hiding detail.
If it was purely due to the HD650 being laid back, then the HD650 would clear up when I add a big treble boost. I've tried both removing the foam on the HD650 and boosting treble with a high quality equalizer, and while these both effectively make the HD650 sound neutral/bright, and make it seem more detailed and crisp -- the added detail is all fake. Don't get me wrong, the HD650 is very detailed. But the SRH940 is just astonishingly more so, above 15+khz, to my ears.
It's hard to describe a "blurred" sound in the context of treble, but that's the best I can describe the HD650. Honestly I don't like it - it's a sign of lower quality treble by nature. Not to say the HD650 has low quality treble, because like I said it's very good, the SRH940 just beats it by a lot in the really high frequency range.
But if you had a headphone with HD650 quality bass and lower mids, combined with SRH940 quality upper mids and treble, then you'd have basically the perfect headphone, and that doesn't exist.
Ah, I see. Maybe that headphone will be the 1840?