badburn
New Head-Fier
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Hi, this is my first post on Head fi, I am not professional or audiophile so I guess I don't know the terms to describe many things. But I do like music very much & I believe I have good ear to evaluate good music. I personally don't like loud music, but I do listen to Any type of music as long as it's quality music, mostly classical, hindi songs, music from Yanni, Enya, Mozart ... etc... I don't rely on the bass that much, but for some music prefer bass a lill, not a basshead I guess.
I got my ATH M50X like 4 days ago. I already have downloaded some flac music to listen to through the headphones, & 320 kbps mp3. Although I didn't experience any greatness about the headphones in the beginning moving from my sennheiser cx300ii precision, I started to notice the balance & greatness after getting used to it. Now I hear the great detail, M50X presents & the sounds that I've never heard in my music & I love it. Also, I tried to identify any differences between 128 kbps & flac, found the sounds are clearer & with no distortions. Right now I just love my headphones & am enjoying them to the maximum.
I can say they gave me new ears.
I am not a guy who listens to music very loud, mostly it's around 40%, But yesterday I started to notice there is a small vibrating sound of diaphrem or I may say cracking sound when high pitched flute played, with mp3, bit rate was around 320 variable bit rate. I considered it as a mp3 fault & marked it, but yesterday I was listening to flac Simon & garfunkel - The sound of silence & at the begining of the song when the guitar part starts to play, I hear a small vibration, it is kind of a distortion. Can hear it only if paid attention very carefully. I got same kind of vibration on flute - the track was "Kuch kuch hota hai" movie song, at the midle of it the flute gets distorted, very slightly.
I am using my toshiba mini laptop to play the songs, the volume level seems pretty ok, the only problem I have is this disturbing sound. My question is, is it a sound card fault ? or problem of my headphones ? or the track I am playing ? Note, I am not noticing the same problem in other tracks.
* I wanna add something to this, My cousin just listened to this one & said, his friend has a cheaper JBL headphone which feels more live, I also find that ATH M50X lacks liveness. What am I missing here, can anyone please explain ? JBL model is also a closed back design by the way. Will I get live with an open air design ?
Thanks in advance.
I got my ATH M50X like 4 days ago. I already have downloaded some flac music to listen to through the headphones, & 320 kbps mp3. Although I didn't experience any greatness about the headphones in the beginning moving from my sennheiser cx300ii precision, I started to notice the balance & greatness after getting used to it. Now I hear the great detail, M50X presents & the sounds that I've never heard in my music & I love it. Also, I tried to identify any differences between 128 kbps & flac, found the sounds are clearer & with no distortions. Right now I just love my headphones & am enjoying them to the maximum.
I can say they gave me new ears.
I am not a guy who listens to music very loud, mostly it's around 40%, But yesterday I started to notice there is a small vibrating sound of diaphrem or I may say cracking sound when high pitched flute played, with mp3, bit rate was around 320 variable bit rate. I considered it as a mp3 fault & marked it, but yesterday I was listening to flac Simon & garfunkel - The sound of silence & at the begining of the song when the guitar part starts to play, I hear a small vibration, it is kind of a distortion. Can hear it only if paid attention very carefully. I got same kind of vibration on flute - the track was "Kuch kuch hota hai" movie song, at the midle of it the flute gets distorted, very slightly.
I am using my toshiba mini laptop to play the songs, the volume level seems pretty ok, the only problem I have is this disturbing sound. My question is, is it a sound card fault ? or problem of my headphones ? or the track I am playing ? Note, I am not noticing the same problem in other tracks.
* I wanna add something to this, My cousin just listened to this one & said, his friend has a cheaper JBL headphone which feels more live, I also find that ATH M50X lacks liveness. What am I missing here, can anyone please explain ? JBL model is also a closed back design by the way. Will I get live with an open air design ?
Thanks in advance.