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Author Topic: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot  (Read 9424 times)

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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #30 on: December 09, 2012, 08:51:06 PM »

WTF are you serious?  All this talk about exactly pinpointing resonances and peaks with nothing but your ear is a bit over the top TBH. 
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #31 on: December 09, 2012, 10:36:54 PM »


Ah... might as well upload them all:

Ultrasone Pro750 (above) not even measuring that bad, no idea how it sounds.

I can confirm that these aren't awful; their highs are actually reasonable, as is the bass, but the mids have this polarizng thing about them that eventually made me stop using them in favor of the 840's.
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #32 on: December 09, 2012, 10:52:29 PM »

The Pro750 was my first higher-end headphone since buying the M50 as a gateway to Head-fi.  My first was actually the Sony CD3000 years ago. Did lots of mods to the 750 and learned a lot reading about the Kees mods.  My biggest issues were the irritating pads that scratched and poked me w/ the worst fabric i could imagine being placed against human skin and the plasticky snares and upper mids.  I think they had an overstock.com deal for $175 at the time.
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #33 on: September 26, 2013, 04:15:36 AM »

Just bought me a pair of these for fun that should arrive any day soon. If they are bassy and have a tiny bit of the soundstage that some people say that they have, I will probably be happy. No clue what to think of about the midrage after seeing the CSDs though. Looks, uh...
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #34 on: September 26, 2013, 04:39:28 AM »

The mids aren't as bad as the measurements indicate. There's a lot of stuff bouncing around in the midrange, so you end up with those ripples. The scary part could be the 7k ringing. (always look for ridges in the CSD). The ringing may result in a hard glare or sibilant treble quality. The massive bass may likely drown this out though.


From memory, the staging was pretty good.
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #35 on: September 26, 2013, 05:18:26 PM »

The Pro750 was my first higher-end headphone since buying the M50 as a gateway to Head-fi.  My first was actually the Sony CD3000 years ago. Did lots of mods to the 750 and learned a lot reading about the Kees mods.  My biggest issues were the irritating pads that scratched and poked me w/ the worst fabric i could imagine being placed against human skin and the plasticky snares and upper mids.  I think they had an overstock.com deal for $175 at the time.

Years ago I grabbed a defective Pro750 that I fixed up by snipping the diodes out. As basshead cans go, not bad. Not the cleanest by any means, but very visceral and didn't bloat over the lower mids like other bassy cans. The whole soundstage/mids thing was weird though. Not particularly shouty, but it was kinda boxy feeling, like I was in a small empty room. Made some things feel extra wide, but others hollow. I don't recall anything particularly offensive in the highs.
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #36 on: September 26, 2013, 08:23:58 PM »

cavernous, that's how i would describe it.
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #37 on: September 27, 2013, 04:21:15 AM »

A really small cavern  :-\ Something like the Audio Technica A700 feels cavernous to me.
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #38 on: September 27, 2013, 04:37:54 AM »

Yup, all S-Logic headphones sound like a cheap, crummy reverb.
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Re: Ultrasone Pro900 (Not-Defective) Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plot
« Reply #39 on: September 27, 2013, 06:21:44 AM »

Well, from memory the HFI series weren't quite as bad as the pro series. But I have less experience with those models and my memory is fuzzy on them now. I had an HFI450 briefly, but wound up shoving an ortho driver in there. Don't even remember which one... might have been an SFI.

I think the Signature Pro/DJ are built off the HFI chassis aren't they?
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Not sure if I like stuffing one hole or both holes. Tending toward one hole since both holes seems kinda ghey ~Purrin
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