>Headphone purchase advice
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It has come to my attention that my shilling has caused great anger amongst the Sennheiser shills. I am deeply sorry this had to happen, and as a result of my actions, I am proud to announce my departure of shilling 9500S' in order to start shilling HD 600s instead.
As such, I present to you, the best headphones money can buy for under $1,000; only beaten by the HD 800S' themselves. These $300 sets compete against $2,000 headphones as seen in the link to the Head-Fi review below. There is no reason to buy these over what you're currently planning on buying, as these headphones will beat those 10/10 times. I am sorry it had to come to this conclusion, but I am only here to spread the truth. The Head-Fi link is seen below, happily introduced to me by a Sennheiser shill I was arguing with a few generals ago. If only I had known this, I would have stopped.
head-fi.org
Best headphones under $50 USD
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I currently own AKG K512 MKii and an shitty tier external mic. Both are starting to die and the AKG in particular is in pretty bad shape.
I want to buy headphones with mic included for portability reasons. Are the Hyper X Cloud a gaming meme or actually good? I can't trust youtube reviews because of previous experiences.
Soundmagic PL50?
fag or a frill? lol... why am I even asking... 99% chance you're a fag.
Good evening.
Good evening /hpg/.
Sold one of my headphones today, should everything go according to plan i will be selling the others soon.
Where can I get hd598 se's in Europe for the regular price? I can buy them from the US, but I pay roughly 50$ for import tax.
Thanks for anime
>Budget
600-800€, less is preferable
>Location
France
>Source
PC/PS3
>Shit I need
Amp+speakers (+sub-woofer if needed)
>Sound signature
Neutral I suppose? I like my ATH-M40X.
why? getting out of the hobby? tell me which are available and prices...
>consumerism as a hobby
LOL
listening to music is not a hobby? and how the fuck are you gonna listen to music without "consumerism"?
>getting out of the hobby?
Not really, i still love headphones and audio, but i was cleaning my headphones and thinking of how much dust they gather when i came to the conclusion that the only headphone i rarely have to dust is the DT880, simply because it's the one i listen to 95% of the time.
So i've decided to sell the ones i don't listen that much, in good time too, my oldest headphone was a k414p and the leather was crumbling to pieces, sold it today to a friend who dosn't seem to care about the pads. Besides, they are not bad headphones, i guess it's better that they are with people who enjoy them more than i currently do.
Gonna sell all but the DT880 and the V6, not sure how much they will cost in dolars, would have to convert the value, will probably just sell them in some brazilian forum.
Why do you ask though? looking for an upgrade?
>Why do you ask though?
just wondering why you'd sell them all.
>looking for an upgrade?
nahh... my V6 are perfect for me. went through dozens of phones and settled on V6 over the years. couldn't make me switch if you paid me. about the only ones I can stomach are senn HD6x0 series. I have no interest in any other phone.
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>>>/plebbit/
For anyone who has the Klipsch r6 how would you describe their sound signature? Because I find these incredibly boring listening to and I want to avoid other earphones with a similar sound.
How are the Fidelio L2's?
so why are you here, retard? why don't you go back to that shithole and enjoy the "intelligent" circlejerking that goes on there? just fuck off and die.
And I bet you believe everything Head-Fi says.
>~$100
>East coast US
>Nexus 6P
>IEM
>Earpods
i'll stay here an enjoy the "unintelligent" circlejerk
This might be a longshot, but do you guys know anything about car speakers? That ones that came with my car is your typical too much bass trash speakers and sound AWFUL with the music I listen to (mostly weeb trash).
it could be the speakers that are trash, or more likely the receiver/player is EQ'ed to cater to nigger bass.
I'd change the receiver. it might even have an option for custom EQ. what type is it?
>>~$100
>>IEM
kek'd. IEMs over $20 are a waste of money. Get Piston Hybrids and call it a day. save the rest and buy headphones.
No, they're not. I spent years buying cheap shit and the first expensive iems I bought for $150 I heard a huge difference in sq. There is a huge difference in sq between cheap and expensive iems.
check amazon .de .es .fr .uk etc
Afaik, they're a rebranded/badged Takstar Pro 80 with the addition of a mic. There's plenty of information about them if you do a search on the Pro 80. I have never had experience with either the headphone or the headset, so I can't give you much more info.
They're pretty good.
Sound is v-shaped, good bass for the booms, soundstage/imaging isn't incredible.
For the price they're good, although you might be able to do better with headphones and a boom pro.
The comfort is medium I'd say, and I have to expand all the way, so bigger heads may not be compatible.
is turning a raspi into a DAC good for the price or just a meme?
I wanna get a good DAC but I'm poor, I have a raspi tho.
1more triple driver for v shaped, shure 215 for bass and rolled off treble, rha ma750.
Pretty sure your phone's DAC is far superior to whatever a Raspi has
Salutations.
I meant the DACs you buy as an accessory for the pi, not the one it has built-in. But yeah maybe those aren't that good either
>And I bet you believe everything Head-Fi says.
Reasons not to?
>Believing in magical cable tech
Only reason you need :^)
huh?
HD6XX or K7XX ?
I have a Xonar STX
The burn-in meme is pretty bad too.
Please help. Vivo XE800s or the Piston 3s for someone who primarily listens to hip hop/rap/etc.
I'm actually new, so thanks for giving a reason.
6XX if you want a warm signature, 7XX if you want neutral. Good luck waiting for the 6XX to drop again though, if ever. You'd be better off getting 650's.
They believe in $100+ cables noticeably affecting sound quality. If I lurk there for long enough, i'm willing to believe some of them believe in magic audio rocks too.
Got these, pretty disappointing
:)
>Calling K7XX Neutral
Any good closed ear bluetooth headphones on a low budget of $30? I just want them for use at the gym, didn't find much on info on Bluetooth headphones on the wiki.
>6XX if you want a warm signature
kek'd
>7XX if you want neutral
you're stupid.
and you're fucking retarded for recommending Massdrop garbage since it cannot be easily obtained and will never be worth as much as real phones on the secondary market.
ps: lurk moar and don't give people advice because you don't know anything.
pps: and fucking save some of those autism bux so you can buy some of these cans and actually listen to them.
Pls
I've been eyeing the 800S since it came out and I'm waiting for it to drop in price (I missed the $500 sale)
Would you guys consider it to be a good upgrade from the 650s? Unfortunately I can't try them before I buy them
But I said to get 650's. Funny how you call people retarded but you're so blinded by asspain that you can't read.
>pps: and fucking save some of those autism bux so you can buy some of these cans and actually listen to them.
I have 650's, maybe you should go get your ears checked if you don't think the treble is recessed at all.
I can see why someone would settle for the v6, it's really good and will probably last for as long as you have them, mine is around five years old and all i had to do so far was changing the pads one for sheep skin ones and recently adding a little WD40 to the metal hinges, still sounds like new.
I like it, it's pretty warm but not muddy, for a semi-open it really got some thump. built quality is not bad at all, although i do preffer removable pads. Speaking of pads, they are really comfortable, i wish more headphones had pads like that, only problem is that the headband is not as balanced and creates a pressure point on the top of the head which can hurt after some time.
Oh, and the detachable cable can be replaced by V-moda ones, that's always a plus on my book.
I'm looking for something similar to a X2, also with a removable 3.5mm cable, but closed, around $200. How is the V-MODA Crossfade M-100? Looking for sound isolation and portability.
Is there a better v-shaped sounding headphone under $100 US than the MDR-7506?
Stock speakers are usually shit. Adjust the EQ first. Then replace the speakers, Then replace the head unit.
Sony and Kenwood are good brands.
Hi Sup Forums, I guess this is the right place where to ask, since usually Sup Forums cuts through the bullshit:
I lately wandered through various forums, youtube channels, and other internet pages looking for more insight into the world of headphones; while I found many interesting things, like the frequency response charts and other objective way of telling a good product from a bad one, I also came across a lot of jargon that I still can't understand, and I was wondering if you could help me out with it: many times I've found reviewers saying that the sound and/or the headphones and/or a particular frequency range was
>sharp
>fast
>accurate
>muddy
>bloated
>recessed
and so on and so forth. I still can't understand what they physically refer to, what's their meaning.
I don't even know whether this reply will work, but what the hell.
Thanks for the advice. Now that I think about it, I've actually started using earplugs for sleeping since the last time I tried IEMs, and I guess the feeling isn't all that different. So I'll have a look around some recommendation lists and give in-ears a try.
I've found this:
head-fi.org
This is total insanity.
>Budget
max 60$
>Location
Poland
>Source
LG G2
>Type of headphone
IEM
>Comfort level
over the ear preferred, with ear hooks from my soundmagics
>Past headphones
SoundMagic PL30 and E30 (died yesterday)
I would buy another E30, but they're out of stock.
So I'm thinking SoundMagic E10, maybe E10C with microphone and controls, E50, PL50,
Brainwavz M1 or Vsonic VSD2S.
Can E10/50 be comfortably used over the ear?
So what's the benefit of using balanced cables?
Easier to set a custom EQ profile.
Lower risk of interference on low cable runs.
Unless you know what you're looking for you don't really need to know much of it
youtube.com
I've been having nightmares about this video for weeks. Why does he talk like that? It's like the gears are grinding inside his head.
Are there any trackers that track the price of all those sites? I can usually find only ones that track of .com.
I don't mind his voice but the mic is atrocious
I'm looking for new headphones that don't rest on on the top of your head.
I mean that don't make contact with your hair...as I've been losing hair in the exact spot my current headphones have been sitting for years. I really love my current Sony MDR V6 but I don't want to be fucking bald.
Suggestions? All other considerations like price are flexible, I just don't want them to touch my hair and of course sound decent.
looking for some small on-ear (not in-ear) headphones for work, bluetooth prefered
...Speakers?...
I'm sad for you, wishing you all the best, user.
Not an option, live in an apartment, have room-mates, etc...
Anyone as can identify these?
>jargon
This is never ending, glossary made on a whim.
>I still can't understand what they physically refer to, what's their meaning.
All of them are descriptions of the frequency response. To break these down as well as I can:
>sharp
Upper midrange emphasis from 1 KHz and up. Sometimes confused with piercing which refers to high treble emphasis around 10 KHz.
>fast
This is a funny one. It's often used to describe bass response which lacks lowest octaves and is neutral above it or "house sound" of Grados/Stax. It has nothing to do with physical speed at all. Physical speed is already given by the frequency/impulse response and "speed" of the bass is by definition slow(low frequency).
>accurate
Accuracy requires a target. While a sound can definitely be accurate given a target, "accurate" isn't a specific type of sound on its own. Generally speaking something accurate tends to be(close to) neutral in tonality.
>muddy
Upper bass emphasis. This results the sound being overly warm and tubby. A broad lift in the response around 200-400 Hz tends to give this impression. Sometimes used in production to describe excessive low sub bass, too.
>bloated
Used for the same upper bass emphasis as above.
>recessed
A range of frequencies that is lower in amplitude. Doesn't refer into any particular sound on its own.
Aside from confusing terminology which consists of terms with clear definitions, terms which have a meaning in audio but don't refer to the frequency magnitude and terms which mean absolutely nothing at all there is a big problem here: the listener. People who review audio gear and know how to listen are rare. You can train it but many don't and it's hard to know who can. And even an expert listener can't rid the bias that inherently comes with sighted listening. Subjective and sighted evaluations are a very unstable foundation for any claims of audio quality even if you have the skill and clear terminology.
Looking for new earbuds...neutral preferred, up to 100$.
I'm currently using Sennheiser CX 300 II, and they sound alright for most things (probably even great considering the price) but I bloody hate the cables, they are some weird shit with one shorter than the other, and it snags all the fucking time on the plastic thing where the cables divide, it drives me crazy whenever it snags and causes one of the buds to fall out.
>low cable runs
*long cable runs
Wear a hat?
Has a new iem that's on the price-quality level of the piston 3 come out yet?
wow wee i went searching the archives for these old templates
Just get piston 3s?
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I'm no shill, but if you're looking for wireless on ears then you might as well get something like this lol
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I just bought a usb "sound card" and the sound is extremely quite. It works normally only if I switch the usb slots but only for a few seconds.
time to get an amp
But I just bought the usb card since the audio slot got broken. It sounds normally if I remove it and insert it in a new usb slot so I'm sure there is a way to fix it.
USB sound card is not an amp. It's just a cheap DAC with a passthrough.
Thank you based user, you've been very helpful. Also, dubs checked and confirmed. Thanks again.
I need your help /hpg/.
I'm a designer. After using various headphones and AMPs over the years, I have an idea for a DAC/AMP of my own. I've shown the sketch to few people and they all liked it and said it looked cool. The design was inspired by another device that I love and it has similar usability.
How would I go about making my own DAC/AMP? Are there any open-source DAC/AMP board layouts? I'd also need help making it fit into the new enclosure.
Any advice?
The O2 would be your easiest option, I guess
care to explain?
m8s any opinions on the pic related?
My Pistons are RIP in peaces, need to buy something else...
From my research, O2 is not a DAC. Also, it's pretty big and from plans that I've seen, it's designed to be portable (has battery connectors too).
There's something called ODAC that's built upon open-source O2 design by nwavguy but I don't think that's open source.
get new pistons. RHA don't sound 6x better to justify the 6x price.
none of the IEMs sound as good as headphones so spending more than $20 on them is retarded.
save some cash for momentums/urbanites.
Oh, I was referring to the O2 amp+integrated ODAC DAC/amp but I forgot that I don't think that it's open source too
is there a actual difference between the AKG m220 and k240?
Memorex cb25 earphines are my favorite gold plated, straight 3.5mm jack with great quality and bass