Which headphones should you buy? M50x, Sundara, 7506, K371, HD6xx, etc 

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Absolutely! The AKG 371 is super comfortable and sounds great on just about everything. Great headphones, very comfy and plush too. :D

Thank ye for the kind words!! :D

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Yeah that headphone is not enjoyable at all. Everything is pretty harsh on it. And it took me a while to understand - that that was the point :P

I know this sounds crazy. But I don’t need it - for what I use headphones for. I’ve tested quite a few headphones in this pricerange and I always find I'm “Nah, I’m good with the HD6xx”. It’s the dot of diminishing returns where things really don’t get much better. :P ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JY24SoRJ5Iw.html I just need it for mixing and for critical editing and the HD6xx is where I stop.

@@Dracomies No that makes perfect sence, sure there may be something better out there, but is that time investment worth it?

Hmm. Going to have to disagree here. IEMs are nice for portability but you can't mix or use them at all for voiceover or for editing audio. They can be used to monitor but not for editing. I have the Blessing 2, Etymotic ER2XR and tested many others -- you can't mix with IEMs nor can you really use them for critical editing.

@Dracomies didn't watch the entire Video when I worte that. So thats on me. Also ment it more for close back use for music instead of mixing. So anouther mistake of mine, should have clarifyed that.

I've tried Sonarworks and on that front something like an AKG 371 can be much more useful. But often I just want something I plug in (where I may not have access to that).

I have no idea. Never tried it. Should I? :D

@@Dracomies yeah I think it's definitely a really good price (25€) They're a bit uncomfortable and are made out of cheap material but I think they sound really good for their price!

100% agree!! If the Sundaras were lightweight, they'd be an easy recommend. What use is something that sounds amazing if you can't wear it too long. Thing is too dang clunky, very heavy after a while.

Oh all three of these definitely are more for precision or more of a tool for sure! The DT770s is well beloved by voiceactors :P

That's actually true! I'm on my second one! :P

@@Dracomies at least it isnt a grado

@@Dracomies you should do a video about headphone amps and DACs if you've used that many of them. because especiallt for those high impedance cans I've heard they can impact the sound quite a bit. i wanna hear your take on it

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I have no singing experience so I don't have expertise in that area ^_^

Sure. Please note that when I evaluate headphones I don't evaluate them on music. But I look at it how accurately it tells me how various microphones sound. In other words if I listen to someone speaking on an SM7B, NT1, TLM 103, MKH 416 can I tell the differences with them? I'd say the Sony MDR7506 is very clinical in that it picks apart every flaw in a microphone recording. A Sennheiser HD6xx is a bit more accurate, the HD600 even moreso where it kind of just shows you how everything really sounds - as it is. Something like the AKG371 though - based on the Harman Curve - isn't what I would call accurate since it was literally designed to make it sound good on ALL music - and a headphone like that would make it difficult to discern differences between 20 microphones as an example. Another example, although a different platform are the Etymotic IEMs. The Etymotic ER2SE is more clinical, not as enjoyable and very accurate. The Etymotic ER2Xr isn't as clinical but still pretty accurate but still somewhat enjoyable. In terms of headphones, the M50x as an example isn't a clinical headphone but it's 'accurate enough' for me to tell the differences in multiple recordings.

They're comfortable but after a while it weighs in on my head. I can't wear it for long. Whereas some other headphones I can wear for hours on end.

I don't remember XP I think it was either the SE8 or 416 which I used more recently.

Yeah they're definitely not for enjoying music. :P It's a harsh critic.

The 371s are super enjoyable! You'll love them. Yeah the Sundaras are deceptively heavy on the head. My head at least.

I don't really agree. The Harman Curve was meant for overall enjoyment of the masses. That's literally the entire study and what the curve was based off of. "“The Harman Target Curve is one example that is preferred by a majority of listeners from a broad range of ages, listening experiences, and genders." They actually went through 238 people to come up with a curve that everyone found enjoyable. "A 2014 study tested 283 listeners with simulations of different headphones in the market, and surprisingly, they have found that a remarkably high proportion of the listeners preferred the Harman target over different frequency responses. Another study by the same researcher tested the correlation between proximity with the harman curve and the listeners’ preference scores (Olive et al., 2018). This study showed an impressive result: listeners preferred sounds the more they were close to the Harman target." From ones I've tested ie AKG 371 and other Harman curve headphones I've tested (and returned)--- they are certainly enjoyable. They make a lot of music enjoyable. But aren't accurate in the way I need accuracy. It's important for me to hear flaws in recordings, but the Harman Curve will mask those flaws. ie hear a mic shootout of 10 mics and you'll think all 10 sound good on a 371, ie you'll think a Neewer 700 sounds great on em.

@@DracomiesSo the part that you’re missing is that in many other studies done before the Harman curve ever existed, Harman and others researching early hifi audio (this is back in the 60s and 70s) found that the large majority of people preferred flat eq well dispersed loudspeakers in a treated room. This is why starting in the 70s and 80s once the tech was there we saw musicians and studios start to gravitate toward flat eq speakers for audio mastering, and “high fidelity” audio was born. The entire audio engineering industry is built on his and others blind studies from those days. Gauging listener preference on a mass scale means gauging how the human brain and ears actually interpret sound. The point of the later headphone harman curve studies were to recreate that “listener preference in loudspeaker” with “listener preference in headphones.” The idea being if neutral sound is what people prefer in speakers, it’s what they like in headphones too, which is the purpose of the curve. It’s much more complex than that once you get into the idea of how the brain interprets sound but that’s the gist of it. By the content on your channel, I’m guessing you are doing voiceover work, vocals and things like that. It’s important to remember that the harman curve is intended for accurate reproduction of _music_ which covers the entire frequency range. Human vocals make up small portion of the frequency range. So headphones that favor upper mid and treble will sound more accurate for pure voice than headphones designed to accurately reproducing what the entire frequency range sounds like on a set of flat speakers.