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I have never owned a mid/high end closed back headphone but the idea of them is appealing.
Even when things are at their quietest there is still often a lot of ambient noise which impacts listening with open-backs, with a closed back you can get to closer to actual silence, so you have a performance advantage over open-backs, not just making environments that would be too noisy for open-backs more listenable.
Environmental noise is an external factor though, it doesn't really have anything to do with how the headphones themselves actually perform.
The general consensus seems to be that in theory open-back is better...
Is this correct?
Do closed/semi-closed back have any inherent performance advantages?
I think higher low-bass sensitivity could be one but not sure...
There are some high-end headphones which seem like they might use a semi-closed construction at least partially for performance reasons e.g AQ Nighthawk, Beyerdynamic T1 series, In fact there are no or at least very few fully open Beyers
Even when things are at their quietest there is still often a lot of ambient noise which impacts listening with open-backs, with a closed back you can get to closer to actual silence, so you have a performance advantage over open-backs, not just making environments that would be too noisy for open-backs more listenable.
Environmental noise is an external factor though, it doesn't really have anything to do with how the headphones themselves actually perform.
The general consensus seems to be that in theory open-back is better...
Is this correct?
Do closed/semi-closed back have any inherent performance advantages?
I think higher low-bass sensitivity could be one but not sure...
There are some high-end headphones which seem like they might use a semi-closed construction at least partially for performance reasons e.g AQ Nighthawk, Beyerdynamic T1 series, In fact there are no or at least very few fully open Beyers
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