| Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif First, thanks for posting this. I enjoyed it on my rig and wish I could get a higher quality recording of it. Second, when people say "bass light," that's a fairly large misconception. Headphones that are "bass heavy" are typically those with exaggerated bass used to make electronically amplified music (e.g. rock guitars, keyboards, synths, et al.) sound good. This is because rock musicians deliberately overdrive their amps into saturation and frequently blow speakers from pushing them into distortion and overheating the voicecoils. That's what's happening at rock concerts and bar shows. Some headphones are very, very good at reproducing that sound. They don't just reproduce it, they also add their own sound to the mix. Just like how cheap speakers and car subwoofers do the same. You might not have noticed because pretty much all speakers and headphones do this. Every live event where you listen to rock or other amplified music has this exaggerated, unnatural bass. People get so used to this sound that they think that's the way things really sound. But it isn't. Spend some time listening to live classical, jazz or other acoustic music. Then play that back through "bass heavy" headphones or speakers. You'll notice that the bass is distorted, does not sound like the real thing and, even worse, throws off the balance so what you mostly hear is sloppy inaccurate bass that ruins the mids and highs. But if you take something like a K-501, DT-48, K-1000, HD-600, HP-1000, HD-800, and a number of other similar headphones, you're going to get reproduction very close to the live event you heard. The bass will be about the same and it will not drown out and ruin the rest of the music. If you're looking for a "thump" in the bass, go to a classical concert and concentrate on feeling the thump from the cello. It ain't there. It would be there if you put a pickup on a cello and fed that into an amp with overdriven tubes and into a distorting 12" folded horn, but that would ruin the music. You wouldn't be able to hear the violin over that. |
| Originally Posted by Il Mostro /img/forum/go_quote.gif Sweet jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick. As others mentioned, nice performance. But what is the point of this thread other than the one on the OP's head? A few minutes on my life that I'll never get back. |
