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Hello, a few months ago I've been looking for a closed headphone to be used in my office, and while searching I found several sources indicating that Beyerdynamic T70 has one of the most 'uncolored' sound:
T70 - One of the 3 Gems of the Headphone World
Sennheiser vs. Beyerdynamic
T70 earpad problems
So here is how the story goes; the only headphone I had was DT990 with some EQ tuning (apart from the irredeemable Superlux HD681), and at that time I couldn't tell much difference between Sennheiser vs. DT1990 vs. T1, even though I could feel that HD6XX series sound somewhat muffled. Now I was able to get a secondhand T70 for a mere $160. At first, it was quite boring and monotonous even with switching the earpads to C-ONE earpads. BUT after 2 weeks, I became capable of telling the difference of each and every headphone very clearly, that is, which headphone sounds muffled or emphasizes which part etc. Especially I could finally understand why T1 was 'better' in terms of cleanness of the sound compared to DT 1990, the thought which I couldn't even conceive when I only had DT990.
My question is, what is this factor called that creates clean and not muffled sound? Some articles say its 'coloration', but when I searched the term I found other people using it for slightly different meaning, and it even seemed like there is no agreed method of measuring the 'coloration'. I would also like to hear some explanation about this phenomenon and whether you agree with it; at least for me, it was such a huge enlightenment on my side and even though I cannot point to the exact reasons behind this, at least I can say that at least one headphone with small 'coloration' factor is a must-have for everybody.
I'd appreciate any deep knowledge behind this.
T70 - One of the 3 Gems of the Headphone World
Sennheiser vs. Beyerdynamic
T70 earpad problems
So here is how the story goes; the only headphone I had was DT990 with some EQ tuning (apart from the irredeemable Superlux HD681), and at that time I couldn't tell much difference between Sennheiser vs. DT1990 vs. T1, even though I could feel that HD6XX series sound somewhat muffled. Now I was able to get a secondhand T70 for a mere $160. At first, it was quite boring and monotonous even with switching the earpads to C-ONE earpads. BUT after 2 weeks, I became capable of telling the difference of each and every headphone very clearly, that is, which headphone sounds muffled or emphasizes which part etc. Especially I could finally understand why T1 was 'better' in terms of cleanness of the sound compared to DT 1990, the thought which I couldn't even conceive when I only had DT990.
My question is, what is this factor called that creates clean and not muffled sound? Some articles say its 'coloration', but when I searched the term I found other people using it for slightly different meaning, and it even seemed like there is no agreed method of measuring the 'coloration'. I would also like to hear some explanation about this phenomenon and whether you agree with it; at least for me, it was such a huge enlightenment on my side and even though I cannot point to the exact reasons behind this, at least I can say that at least one headphone with small 'coloration' factor is a must-have for everybody.
I'd appreciate any deep knowledge behind this.
