I just picked up a pair of these and despite Amir's (and many others') reviews, I was still shocked at the excess treble energy. Good lord. I usually use EQ to boost my treble by a few dB... and here I found myself diving for the keyboard to implement Amir's suggested eq to smash down that treble before it fried my ears.
I bought them for audio editing and while I respect their ability to bring out oodles of vocal detail, it seems crazy to me that so much professional audio is mastered on these things.
It seems to me that if your mix sounds good on these, it's going to sound dull on any "normal" speakers/headphones.
What am I missing??? How/why do professionals use these? Not a rhetorical question. I know very little about studio work.
Doodski and Grooved had good responses to your comments, and I think I hit on part of it with my previous post—in a nutshell, the 7506 has robust midrange response, and that this a helpful attribute when tracking. So these are super popular for monitoring while tracking vocals, guitar, etc. I think somewhere back I posted a video of Andrea Bocelli singing on this $7k+ Italian mic, wearing the $100 7506.
But they are also a good utility headphone. Largely, people don't "mix" or "master" on headphones, per se. But they use headphones routinely to check for issues—buzzes, etc. For one thing, mixing on headphones doesn't give the same sense of space that mixing on speakers gives, because each channel is isolated to one ear, and from the side (some headphones position the source sligthly in front). There are ways around it—the studio simulation plugins can be very good, and Slate promotes his system for mixing on phones.
And as Grooved pointed out, Andrew Scheps claims to know the 7506 so well that he is comfortable to mix on them. But this is nothing new, people are adaptable, people can mix on Aurotones and might only give a final check on full range speakers.
But, yeah, you can mix on 7506, but as with any headphones you'd want to know them and how they relate to your car system, your home listening system, etc., and check that the mix works on your studio monitors. Who knows, a perfectly well balance set of phones won't necessarily give you a better mix in the end—the extra mids on the 7506 might just help you focus on the important midrange details while getting the mix right.
I have compared the Sony to several brands when I sold the gear and it was a decent headphone but not to be compared to a AKG etc because the AKG is not as mid forward. I found if listening to the Sony then after other headphones sounded weak and flat and if I went from the AKG to the Sony I found the Sony to be bright. They are both good in their own ways.
