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Jul 8, 2015 - 10:44 AM
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Graham Watt
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On the new "expensive" phones most of that extraneous noise has gone.... but I found it a more "bassy" sound which softened some of the admittedly harsh nuances that I'd heard on the cheapophones. So the expensive ones seem to iron out the defects. That should be fine.
To me, that's odd. I'd expect to be able to hear extraneous noise more on expensive headphones. I'd expect cheapo ones to obscure this with bass.
This comes from using studio monitor headphones - which are definitely on the expensive side of the scale. The whole point of them is to pick up any imperfections in recording.
I'd want fidelity, warts and all, not the smearing out of flaws, because with those imperfections come nuances that you'd miss otherwise.
Jehannum - You picked out just one bit of my continuing ramble, which was just a mere first impression. You'd have to look at my evolutionary process (ha!) over all the thread to see what I was trying to express...
Let me clarify something: my "expensive" headphones were 26 pounds (actually, they were just an unwanted set that somebody offloaded on me). My "cheap" ones were free, in the sense that they came with a years-old portable CD player. The cheap ones seem to highlight the treble more than the bass - they don't in any way obscure the extraneous noise with bass, because they aren't bass-heavy. And because the imperfections such as surface noise, squeaky chairs in the orchestra etc seem to appear more at the treble end (that's something I learned on this here thread), thats what was so noticeable through the cheapos.
Anyway, we are actually agreeing in the end I think. You say that you'd want "fidelity, warts and all, not the smearing out of flaws, because with those imperfections come nuances that you'd miss otherwise." Which is exactly the point I was trying to make at the start when doubting whether to continue with the expensive (26 bloody quid!) ones. I even used the expression "warts n' all" at the end of my first post. Anyway, I got the impression that with the heavier bass, those imperfections were being lost in a boom-box hollow roar of silence. On further listening I realised they weren't, and that the squeaky chairs and dialogue bleedthrough were just competing, or rather sharing space with other details I hadn't heard before. I'm so glad I can still hear those imperfections, but delighted that I'm getting more music along with them.
I'd go on, but I fear everyone may have fallen asleep.
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