Soria Moria
Senior Member
Hi. In the headphone and IEM space I've noticed that people tend to refer to headphones with flat measuring bass as neutral, but from my own listening using Oratory's EQ presets on various headphones and the Quarks DSP, any headphone that alligns with the Harman target sounds a LOT more like a pair of reference speakers than any so-called 'neutral' headphone I've heard. Headphones I've owned and used that people have referred to as neutral and mixing headphones are ones such as HD800S and LCD-X, but both of these sound very coloured to me and I would definitely make a terrible sounding mix with them un-EQed.