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Title: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Marvey on August 22, 2012, 12:52:20 AM
OK. Came back home for the meet and didn't listen to anything for two days. Plugged SRH1440 and was like, hmmm, they OK. Tilted upward but OK. At least no ringing. That was yesterday. Need to recalibrate my ears... Plugged in Dynahi and BA to listen to HE400, HE500, HD800, etc.

OK ready now. Plug SRH1440 into Dynahi. WTF! Holy mother of jebus! These are spectacularly unlistenable. Doesn't matter if there's no nasty ringing, the FR is just fucked up on these. Nasty. Nasty.

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Just took measurements. See below.
Title: Re: SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Marvey on August 22, 2012, 12:55:33 AM
Not unexpected. Distortion is nasty.


HD measurements with headphones at SPL/A 90db white noise.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: manveru on August 22, 2012, 01:29:10 AM
Wow. >1k looks terrifying! ???
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Anathallo on August 22, 2012, 01:59:16 AM
Weren't these marketed as the 'Bass-ier, more consumer friendly' model?
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: ocswing on August 22, 2012, 02:09:08 AM
Wow, it starts the mids hump like on the K701, but then just keeps on going into the stratosphere.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Sforza on August 22, 2012, 03:40:24 AM
Wow, I've never seen a headphone that gets an elevated bass response from distortion. Maybe that's why Shure chose to roll it off so much :-S

Weren't these marketed as the 'Bass-ier, more consumer friendly' model?

I think they were marketed as the model with less perceived dynamic range compared to the SRH1840, but supposedly more musical to listen to. So much for that.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Marvey on August 22, 2012, 03:50:38 AM
They do sound bassier, or at least fuller compared to the 1840, despite having similar bass response. Distortion does have a little to do with that. LOL.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: MuppetFace on August 22, 2012, 10:05:35 AM
Actually most impressions I've read between the SRH1440 vs. 1840 identify the latter as the more consumer friendly, bass or no.

The SRH1440 is usually called the more "lively" while the 1840 is the more "musical" or whatever.

I think the SRH1440 sounds like an open SRH940 basically. I don't like either [the SRH1440 or the SRH940].
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: MomijiTMO on August 22, 2012, 12:03:38 PM
I'm partially deaf I guess because I like a slightly bright phone (HD800 & AD2000) but DAMN that looks scary.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Marvey on August 22, 2012, 05:12:48 PM
Oh, it's much worse than HD800 or AD2000, and without any redeeming qualities.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Hands on August 22, 2012, 06:36:05 PM
I don't understand what these companies do all day if they're not designing good products.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: jerg on August 22, 2012, 08:14:24 PM
Disregarding the lower 2/3rds of the frequency response, why does everything 2kHz+ look so nice though? Even nicer than SR009 CSDs at a first glance. Shave off a bit of the top off the broad hump at 4kHz and I'd call it a very neutral upper midrange/treble that is extremely clean.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Anaxilus. on August 22, 2012, 08:51:28 PM
I think we can see some ringing developing at 3/6/12khz that would be more evident if we dropped the floor more.  Still the distortion is so audible it's just beyond comprehension including a spike at 5-6khz.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Deep Funk on August 22, 2012, 08:52:33 PM
How did Shure manage to do that? The lower end distortion alone is unsettling...
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: Marvey on August 22, 2012, 11:03:37 PM
Engineering requires tradeoffs. Usually fixing one thing on a dynamic driver screws up something else. I can confirm that I could not hear any ringing. But the frequency response and distortion is unacceptable.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: wiinippongamer on September 06, 2012, 06:30:23 PM
CSDs look very clean on these, even better than ESP950, but the FR does look fucked up.
Title: Re: Shure SRH1440 Measurements
Post by: DaveBSC on September 06, 2012, 09:02:53 PM
Look at Tyll's square waves on the 1440. I'm not sure I've seen uglier.