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What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« on: April 19, 2012, 06:19:49 AM »
Top 5 best headphones for vocal reproduction whether it be accurate or just gorgeous. 

Mine:  (roughly ordered from best on top but they're all so close)

Yamaha orthos
Stax
Good iteration of Audeze LCD-2rev2
Fostex T50rp
AKG K240 Sextett EP
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 06:22:38 AM »
SR009
HE90
SR-Omega
SR007 (any version)
UERM


Honorable mention: W3000ANV

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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 06:23:52 AM »
Stock or Modded T50RP?
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 06:36:43 AM »
1) Yamaha Orthos(HP1>/=YH100/YHD-1 > HP50 > HP2/YH-2/YHE50)
2) Fostex T30/ modded RP18
3) Rotel back-electret
4)PMB-80
5)LCD2r1 modded

They all sound great with vocals & apart from the first tier yamaha orthos, the differences are pretty minor.
PMB-80 is the one which could have give serious competition to yammies but I never got around to fixing its issues.
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 08:00:51 AM »
Westone ES5; mids and vocals are pure sex.
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Surprising honorable mention to modded HD800.  Smooth, clear, detailed, liquid yet textured.  Audezes pale by comparison for vocals and mids are overrated.
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 09:07:58 AM »
1. 240DF

2. Stax/SA5000

3. 240 sextetts LP

4.Fostex T50rp

5. ?????

i haven't heard much headphones really so only listing what i heard or have. reason i listed fostex last cause i can't remember how they sound exactly. only thing i remember is their clarity and they were nice sounding and close to my DF's(what i used to tune the fostex besides my speakers. weren't exact but was close enough where i enjoyed it). i heard a modded yamaha hp-1(by scompton) in the past but don't remember how it sounds either.
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 05:43:08 PM »
I forgot about the RP18's!  Yes.  And I think some other Fostex orthos are better than the Sextetts.  I'll revise mine then

Yamaha Orthos
NAD RP18
Stax (007 and the 507, not the cheaper stuff, which is a bit thin in the vocal range)
Fostex T50rp (modded)
LCD-2rev2 (good iteration, most pairs wouldn't make the list)
« Last Edit: April 19, 2012, 06:23:39 PM by rhythmdevils »
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 05:52:00 PM »
Quote from: ultrabike on April 19, 2012, 06:23:52 AM
Stock or Modded T50RP?

With certain mods.  With most modifications ime, the midrange isn't that great.  I wouldn't own or listen to a stock T50rp.  Sounds like an echoey mess.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2012, 06:23:11 PM by rhythmdevils »
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 10:56:27 PM »
^^ I just gotten a stock pair of T50rp in the mail. They were on my head for no more than 40 minutes. I had forgotten how bad they sound because my original pair was in pieces...
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Re: What are your top 5 headphones for vocals?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2012, 05:43:05 AM »
Sigma
R10
HE90
009
007
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