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Lobby => Headphone, IEM, and Other Audio Related Discussion => Topic started by: Judeus on August 21, 2015, 12:28:15 AM

Title: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: Judeus on August 21, 2015, 12:28:15 AM: rap/rock/pop/country etc

what cans do you like?
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: mickeyvortex on August 21, 2015, 02:18:00 AM: Anything made by Sony :)p3
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: Armaegis on August 21, 2015, 02:24:18 AM: I use the same headphones that I'd use for well recorded/mastered music. It doesn't matter if you're looking at a turd through rose coloured glasses, you'll smell it either way.
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: takato14 on August 21, 2015, 03:03:55 AM: Quote from: Armaegis on August 21, 2015, 02:24:18 AM
I use the same headphones that I'd use for well recorded/mastered music. It doesn't matter if you're looking at a turd through rose coloured glasses, you'll smell it either way.
brownie points for this
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Post by: TMRaven on August 21, 2015, 03:09:22 AM: HD800.
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Post by: thegunner100 on August 21, 2015, 03:11:33 AM: HD700, T90, or any ultrasone :)
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Post by: TMRaven on August 21, 2015, 03:26:01 AM: I wasn't joking either.
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Post by: riker1384 on August 21, 2015, 04:01:52 AM: I have a pair of Bose Around-Ear 2 headphones that I use for casual listening to podcasts, Youtube videos and sometimes music. The high treble is rolled off which helps with low quality audio. The bass is boosted and also unfortunately part of the mids are boosted which makes them sound tinny. The comfort is good, isolation is good. They are also easy to wear on just one ear if I want to hear outside sound. (Due to the thin, flexible headband and reasonably small earcups.

They're not quite true circumaurals, but they're well padded and lightweight.
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Post by: n3rdling on August 21, 2015, 04:16:51 AM: SR-007
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Post by: kothganesh on August 21, 2015, 04:18:21 AM: Amen. SR 007 mk1
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Post by: AustinValentine on August 21, 2015, 04:42:54 AM: +1 on the SR 007 Mk1. Also, LFF's Enigmas and the Oppo PM-3.
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Post by: Anaxilus on August 21, 2015, 04:46:13 AM: Quote from: mickeyvortex on August 21, 2015, 02:18:00 AM
Anything made by Sony :)p3

Are you serious?
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: zerodeefex on August 21, 2015, 04:46:48 AM: Used to say SR 007 MK1, changed to donmodded HP1000.
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Post by: Claritas on August 21, 2015, 05:00:11 AM: PM1 with velour earpads, if you really think it's worth bothering with: poo record + facepalm phone = you )( yourself.
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Post by: SoupRKnowva on August 21, 2015, 05:08:38 AM: I listen to poorly mastered metal of all varieties almost exclusively and I use my hd800s, unmodded, with the V2, till just a few weeks ago when it got replaced by BW, for everything. Including the odd k-pop/pop/Rock/rap album

I am pumped for anax 3.0 though
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: zerodeefex on August 21, 2015, 05:28:02 AM: Quote from: SoupRKnowva on August 21, 2015, 05:08:38 AM
I listen to poorly mastered metal of all varieties almost exclusively and I use my hd800s, unmodded, with the V2, till just a few weeks ago when it got replaced by BW, for everything. Including the odd k-pop/pop/Rock/rap album

I am pumped for anax 3.0 though

This is what happens to me. I listen to shitty masters all the time on whatever the fuck I have on hand.
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Post by: CEE TEE on August 21, 2015, 06:01:55 AM: Philips Fidelio X1. A long time ago, AKG 240 Studio.
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Post by: MarcoGV on August 21, 2015, 08:00:02 PM: Beyerdynamic DT-235 or CAL! through the Bravo V2 hybrid headphone amplifier. The combination gives a euphonic mid-centered sound that masks many shortcomings of a bad recording. If I had to choose just one, I would go with the CAL! My experience in these situation is: I start with the DT-235 and think that I cannot do better, then I swap the DT-235 with the CAL! and the midrange gets slightly fuller still.

Great question by the way!
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: mickeyvortex on August 22, 2015, 03:03:58 AM: Quote from: Anaxilus on August 21, 2015, 04:46:13 AM
Are you serious?

Now I am. I meant to say Sony's MDR-1R or 10R.
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Post by: burnspbesq on August 22, 2015, 05:03:45 AM: welp, the kid left his Beats Solo 2 behind when he went back to school last week, and when I asked him whether he wanted me to ship them to him he said no. There's another option for listening to overly compressed pop.
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Post by: takato14 on August 22, 2015, 05:11:15 AM: Quote from: Anaxilus on August 21, 2015, 04:46:13 AM
Are you serious?
*anything made (released) by sony in the last 20 years
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: madaboutaudio on August 22, 2015, 05:27:43 AM: Apple EarPods. These are probably the most mid centric transducer ever. You don't get harsh treble from bad source nor any kind of overpowered bass from bad mixes. The most forgiving device in the world.
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Post by: Cryptowolf on August 22, 2015, 03:05:58 PM: Whatever mid-fi headphone I have on hand: Beyer DT-250 (office), Beyer DT880 (home). Why make compression and other poor mastering choices even more evident?

PS. Just listen to better recordings :)p8
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Post by: metal571 on August 25, 2015, 01:47:44 AM: ATH-A900X. I don't get why these aren't mentioned more often.
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: geniejean on August 25, 2015, 03:15:49 AM: HD650; smooth it all out.
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: Psalmanazar on August 28, 2015, 06:06:30 PM: Quote from: Cryptowolf on August 22, 2015, 03:05:58 PM
Whatever mid-fi headphone I have on hand: Beyer DT-250 (office), Beyer DT880 (home). Why make compression and other poor mastering choices even more evident?

PS. Just listen to better recordings :)p8
But metal is supposed to sound like shit! You have to tune guitars after you buy them? Sepultura! Setting limiters on your already hole in the ground drum micing? Demilich! Plug in a buzzsaw HM-2 pedal to your ridiculous beeswarm JCM 900 head with every knob on 11? Dismember! Make your crappy solo twice as loud as everything else on the album? Carcass! Metal is Spinal Tap and we're not even getting into the horrible brickwalling, sample replaced drums, and digital reamping of modern crap. Metallica having Death Magnetic "remixed" (clipped to hell to dirty up the sterile rhythm guitar tone) so it would sound "smokin'" in Lars "I have very severe hearing damage." Urlich's car might be the best of that.
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: takato14 on August 28, 2015, 07:44:09 PM: Quote from: metal571 on August 25, 2015, 01:47:44 AM
ATH-A900X. I don't get why these aren't mentioned more often.
I don't think many people here have even tried Audio-Technica's new offerings due to their reputation.
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: zerodeefex on August 28, 2015, 07:50:04 PM: Quote from: metal571 on August 25, 2015, 01:47:44 AM
ATH-A900X. I don't get why these aren't mentioned more often.

I've owned the AD900, A900x, and AD2000.

I'll say that I didn't care for any of them except for the AD2000 which I still have.
Title: Re: your most preferred headphones for crappie recorded/mastered music
Post by: Riotvan on August 28, 2015, 08:36:17 PM: If it's really shit but i have to hear it i'll use speakers. No way those ribbon tweeters are gonna decapitate me.
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Post by: Thad E Ginathom on August 29, 2015, 07:50:19 AM: Quote from: zerodeefex on August 28, 2015, 07:50:04 PM
I've owned the AD900, A900x, and AD2000.

I'll say that I didn't care for any of them except for the AD2000 which I still have.

The ADH900 got me into headphone listening and I enjoyed it very much --- but then I got HD600 and rediscovered bass.