Its the coolest/most fun frequency in my opinion. Hifi aside any pair of headphones can produce highs and mids. All headphones/speakers cant produce bass, and its the one frequency that you can feel and hear at the same time. Its the reason I got into hifi this past year.
For all day listening (to drown out the people at work) bass is king. Much less fatiguing - I find that AKG701's and even my ath700's start to wear after a couple of hours.
And with reference to the OP, at least we've got newbies on the forum. Most people who are into music are willing to listen (sic) and occasionally learn from more experienced heads. What someone ends up preferring is a matter of personal taste.
I remember the first time I switched from ibuds to some cheap phillips headphones. The bass was amazing because I never heard the bass through ibuds. From non existent bass to muddy but present bass was a much bigger change than any improvement to the mids or highs. Later I came to pay more attention to the mids and highs. I'm new to all this. I love my 2 week old grados (thanks to the recommendation thread!). But I doubt if everyone gets past the bass loving stage if they don't want to try out new headphones.
I'm not a basshead at all and the main music I listen to with headphones is classical music...but still I always end up with rather full bodied, bass heavy headphones and speakers.
After the Audio Technica A500s I got the D5000s and I never regretted it.
In my opinion - and I am one of very few - classical music fares very well with a solid bass.
The biggest gripe I have with headphones that are supposed to work best with classical music, like the AKG 701 and Audio Technica W5000 is the sheer lack of bass.
I like my Bach, Mozart and even more dense music like Mahler and Bartok big, full-blooded and bodied, just like the old days when I listened to analogue LP and cassette.
I prefer round over tight, I prefer slow and relaxed over speed and I prefer cohesion over extreme detail.
Yep, I definitely am not an audio purist and audiophile, but not out of ignorance or lack of experience but out of preference, I just know what I like.
I'm not a basshead at all and the main music I listen to with headphones is classical music...but still I always end up with rather full bodied, bass heavy headphones and speakers.
After the Audio Technica A500s I got the D5000s and I never regretted it.
In my opinion - and I am one of very few - classical music fares very well with a solid bass.
The biggest gripe I have with headphones that are supposed to work best with classical music, like the AKG 701 and Audio Technica W5000 is the sheer lack of bass.
I like my Bach, Mozart and even more dense music like Mahler and Bartok big, full-blooded and bodied, just like the old days when I listened to analogue LP and cassette.
I prefer round over tight and slow, relaxed over speed and cohesion over extreme detail.
Yep, I definitely am not an audio purist and audiophile, but not out of ignorance or lack of experience but out of preference, I just know what I like.
There's this man in his 50's at the graveyard that wanted more bass (cuz he seems to love bass) into his tractor he uses at work so he installed one of those compact subwoofer/amp combo into the roof of it so he drives around with his subwoofer just above his head all day. So dunno about that LOL. Even I wouldn't think of doing such things if I were him. Man did I laugh the first time I saw it, it plays very well for the price too but seriously a guy over 50 doing something like that at work, he really must be a basshead LMAO
I work at Caterpillar, and the tractors with cabs comes with speakers in the roof(two Blaupunkt ~4" in the E-series Backhoe Loaders). Though, you have to supply the head unit which is also mounted overhead.
Its been a long time since I felt anything resembling 'alarm' re Head-Fiers craving bass above any other single priority - its like saying that dogs chase cats. Not all dogs will chase cats, and some couldnt give a hoot about cats, but 90% of them will ...... the difference is that a dog wouldnt log onto an internet forum and begin their first post with :
I'm not a cat chaser, but does anyone know where cats hang out ? And where I might be able to get some running shoes ?
I cant recall which board member has the sig, but it goes something like this : newbie audiophiles crave bass, intermediate audiophiles crave treble but veteran audiophiles know that the music lives in the mids. I'm not an audiophile (honest - I was just holding it for a friend !), but that statement rings true for me.
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