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Headphoneus Supremus
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Yeah, this looks like the difference in personal preferences.
I use LCD-3F and Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 250.
This headphones are from different price points, but I cannot actually tell if one is better than other.
They both have the strengths and weaknesses, and have different tonal balance.
Anyway, I have the same impressions from both about the pregain settings.
The sound @ -12 dB seems to be more precise or accurate.
@ 0 dB it seems to have more so-called fullness (I think this is that some people talked about V281 in the reviews, and probably you talk about the same thing).
@ 0 dB the sound is concentrated more on each instrument and its environment, @ -12 dB it is more about the global scene.
That difference is not like day and night. It may be described like fine tuning of the sound.
I used this setup with LCD-3 in relatively noisy environment, and I preferred -12 dB.
Now I have quiet environment, and this changed my preference to 0 dB (maybe temporarily).
0 dB seems to be more about music =)
I use Violectric V800 with 24 dBu outputs, so, I don't turn the volume higher than 12 o'clock.
I don't see the problem here, because the sound remains the same at the different positions of the volume knob.
Yes. That is what my ears are hearing also. Well explained.
I will experiment with this over the next few weeks.
My environment is 100% quiet. Gear is located in a soundproof purpose built home theater. So no ambient noise.