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$9 Headphone Review: Sony MDR-ZX110
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Because physics is a thing. ;-)
No. Good speakers are somewhat even in their FR. It seems to me that this is not the case with headphones.
Tell me more.
HaHa so you are the bad guy, thats the couse that we have to pay 13€ at amazon.de ??!!
DSJR
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So far, the UK price is £12 plus postage to £20 or so depending on colour...
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12€ at mediamarkt.deHaHa so you are the bad guy, thats the couse that we have to pay 13€ at amazon.de ??!!
just ordered one and im so hyped to compare it to my focal clear, using armirm eq or autoeq on both
restorer-john
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It appears all speakers and headphones these days, are from the Bose 901 (let's fix it in the EQ) school of thought.
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HaHa so you are the bad guy, thats the couse that we have to pay 13€ at amazon.de ??!!
I havent thought this through.
Arghhh 1€ cheaper, i kill my self. Wait @amirs review will lead to a price peak.12€ at mediamarkt.de
It appears all speakers and headphones these days, are from the Bose 901 (let's fix it in the EQ) school of thought.
Yeap but there is a difference, some thinks you can fix with EQ, some not.
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Its a good question. 2 schools of thought I suppose.
1. In the designer's/ manuf opinion they have hit the sonic brief - but that isnt aligned to accepted targets - so some of the excess treble designs a la Beyer and co might be designed to highlight/ artificially boost detail- job done.
2. They either dont care or cant hit targets with price constraints and design brief.
Im wondering if the not too distant future isnt a stage where the latter is sidestepped totally and all half serious HP are active with built in EQ. For the first scenario, maybe 2 or more built in EQ- one for the manuf selected signature and one for the "neutral" setting- whether that be Harmanish or other .
12€ at mediamarkt.de
I ordert too. Iam very curious whats @amirs taste. So it gives me a much better impression of other listening tests. Some kind of a orientation line. And btw i have a new headphone.
SGD$25 for sold by amazon.sg
SGD$35 from Sony
Think I'll have to let it hitch a ride when I proxy ship some other stuff from slickdeals
Interestingly, I think I have seen more expensive headphones on airplanes, and they sound horrible.
SGD$35 from Sony
Think I'll have to let it hitch a ride when I proxy ship some other stuff from slickdeals
Interestingly, I think I have seen more expensive headphones on airplanes, and they sound horrible.
It is worth considering that it isn't the same issue as hitting a flat frequency response with a loudspeaker. A headphone is being asked to hit a physically unnatural response curve. It is being asked to emulate the HRTF of the wearer. Human head. So there is a complicated response required, one that is open to debate as to the best choice. The tools available to the designer are somewhat blunt. I would still argue that the best tool is DSP, but we are not seeing that yet. Nor for the most part even passive LCR is seen. Just electromechanical systems with odd bits of damping and resonant tuning. The designer isn't just asked to make a flat response, they are being asked to purturb the response in odd ways to meet an arbitrarily weird response (well targeted to an arbitrary species.) As they say, one should not be complaining about how well it works, but be amazed it works at all.
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I'd join in the fun but can't get on with on-ear designs. Which is a pity as I agree, a cheap way of comparing personal experience to the boss man's.I ordert too. Iam very curious whats @amirs taste. So it gives me a much better impression of other listening tests. Some kind of a orientation line. And btw i have a new headphone.
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I'd be all over EQ if my sporadic headphones use if I wasn't connecting them to my old stereo integrated to listen to CDs and Vinyls
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Robin L
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A ten dollar headphone that sounds good with eq is interesting. But a hundred dollar headphone that doesn't require eq seems like a much more interesting proposition to me. While the sort of folks who hang out at ASR know about eq, most don't and most won't do anything about it. Plug and play is where it's at, unless you're an audiophile tweaker.
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