[miroslav]

There is this article/review on these headphones in RFE magazine from Germany:

http://www.rfe-online.de/_archiv/01/79/7901.htm

Any enthusiast willing to sum up and translate this for us?

 

[JML]

If you go to Babelfish, on AltaVista, and plug in the URL for the "review," you'll see that the review is 99.9% press release from the manufacturer.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

 

[lini]

Well, apart from the last paragraph the article is mainly about measuring and testing methods as well as headphone-typical humps and bumps in the frequency response. The last paragraph claims the HFI-650 to have a not overblown bass, linear mids and neutral highs - something that, according to the author, only open headphones have achieved before...

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[Tomcat]

Florian M. König, the author of the article, is Chief Technology Officer ("Vorstand Technik") at Ultrasone AG.

He holds a patent on a System for the Frontal Localization of Auditory Events Produced by Stereo Headphones from 1998 which can be downloaded from the HeadWize library.

Jan Meier recommends something similar concerning headphone or driver placement. I have never listened to Ultrasone headphones, but my results with the low-and-to-the front headphone placement haven't been convincing. Imaging is improved through this, but the sound becomes rather fatiguing as well. There seems to be less balance throughout the frequency range and less cohesion. It seems to me that the most natural pinnae effects are achieved when the headphone's driver is as far away from the ear-canal as possible.

 

[kelly]

Quote:

Originally posted by JML If you go to Babelfish, on AltaVista, and plug in the URL for the "review," you'll see that the review is 99.9% press release from the manufacturer. http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Babelfish translation