Hello here, it's my first post on this forum and I wanted to start saying that I often read reviews and topics here. This place is great and thank you for this
I've always be interested in hi-fi but never made the jump before this, my speakers are "common" speakers and I have a Bose QC35 headphones for a couple of year. I never experienced problems with them even for long sessions.
I bought my first hi-fi headphones as well as my first DAC + amp something like 1 month ago to start listening with a hi-fi setup which is :
- Sennheiser HD 800S Anniversary edition (which should be exactly the same as a common HD 800S)
- Topping E30
- Topping L30
I noticed I had some light tinnitus / headcache after my first sessions of listening, which alerted me a bit. As I was continuing to listen session after session, I had less and less problem and feeling it may be just a time to adapt my ears to the headphones.
One night I slept with the headphones beside my head, it was plugged in with DAC, amp and PC turned on but without any music, I woke up having a tinnitus on the ears which was on the side of the headphones. I started being nervous about this setup potentially hurting me even without music or sound.
Beside those light tinnitus / headcache after hours the sound is good, I have pleasure listening to it and I hear no strange frequencies or anything like this.
I can't isolate the headphones because of my setup, but i tried to isolate the DAC and amp to check if I have the same results with my Bose QC35 or my speakers for example. The problem is I have to listen for hours and now I am not sure if I really have those light tinnitus / headcache or if I convince me I have them. I'm also a bit nervous about listening for hours day after day just to try, taking the risk to permananlty hurt my ears ...
I've try to analyze the frequency of my headphones with my every day microphone but I didn't find anything strange between 20Hz and 20kHz, I've not found a program which can analyze further frequency but I guess my microphone cannot anyway.
Do you think one of the 3 equipments I bought could be damaged ? If so how would you try them without taking risk to permananlty hurt me ?
Sorry for the long post, I searched a lot for my problem on Google etc. but I didn't find people having the same problem as I have ... I hope you could help me on this.
Thanks !
I've always be interested in hi-fi but never made the jump before this, my speakers are "common" speakers and I have a Bose QC35 headphones for a couple of year. I never experienced problems with them even for long sessions.
I bought my first hi-fi headphones as well as my first DAC + amp something like 1 month ago to start listening with a hi-fi setup which is :
- Sennheiser HD 800S Anniversary edition (which should be exactly the same as a common HD 800S)
- Topping E30
- Topping L30
I noticed I had some light tinnitus / headcache after my first sessions of listening, which alerted me a bit. As I was continuing to listen session after session, I had less and less problem and feeling it may be just a time to adapt my ears to the headphones.
One night I slept with the headphones beside my head, it was plugged in with DAC, amp and PC turned on but without any music, I woke up having a tinnitus on the ears which was on the side of the headphones. I started being nervous about this setup potentially hurting me even without music or sound.
Beside those light tinnitus / headcache after hours the sound is good, I have pleasure listening to it and I hear no strange frequencies or anything like this.
I can't isolate the headphones because of my setup, but i tried to isolate the DAC and amp to check if I have the same results with my Bose QC35 or my speakers for example. The problem is I have to listen for hours and now I am not sure if I really have those light tinnitus / headcache or if I convince me I have them. I'm also a bit nervous about listening for hours day after day just to try, taking the risk to permananlty hurt my ears ...
I've try to analyze the frequency of my headphones with my every day microphone but I didn't find anything strange between 20Hz and 20kHz, I've not found a program which can analyze further frequency but I guess my microphone cannot anyway.
Do you think one of the 3 equipments I bought could be damaged ? If so how would you try them without taking risk to permananlty hurt me ?
Sorry for the long post, I searched a lot for my problem on Google etc. but I didn't find people having the same problem as I have ... I hope you could help me on this.
Thanks !