Request advice:rentry.org/hpgdoc>Headphone Power Calcheadphonesty.com/headphone-power-calculatorDon't miss out on EQBear in mind headphones may perform differently between unitsRecommended programs:Windows: EqualizerAPO (+ Peace)Linux: EasyEffectsAndroid: Wavelet, Poweramp Equalizer, (Rootless)JamesDSPAutoEQ (disregard for mid-upper treble):sai.squig.linkautoeq.app>gaming>wireless>>>/out/>Sub-$100• Koss KSC75/Porta Pro/KPH40• Philips SHP9500/SHP9600• AT ATH-M40x• Shure SRH440a• Fostex TH7>$150~$250• DT-880/770 Pro• Sennheiser HD 560S• AKG K371/K361/K612 Pro• Philips Fidelio X2HR• Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XX• Shure SRH840a• Fostex T50RP MK3 (moddable)>$300-$500• Sash Tres• Audeze Maxwell (gaming headset, but good)• Sennheiser HD 490 Pro/600/65• AT ATH-R70x• Drop + Dan Clark Audio Aeon Closed/Open X• Used/Discounted Focal Clear OG (not Mg)• Argon-modded Fostex T50RP MK3• Fostex T60RP (mod-friendly)• FiiO FT3>$500+• ask itt>AVOID:Schiit - you will receive a broken product and they will charge you for returns.Hifiman/Moondrop/Superlux and every other chinese headphone brand - Garbage build quality, significant variation between units, fraudulent marketing everywhere. Your headband will snap at some point.>Recommended DAC/amp brands:No NEED to spend a large amount of money on a DAC or Amp. Even a cheap JM20 dongle is capable of producing a clean signal. Get something within your budget and based on your output/input needs.• JCally JM20/Any dongle/miniDAC with an AK4377/CS43131 chip• White: Geshelli/JDS Labs• chinese: SMSL/Topping/FiiO• Expensive: RME ADI-2/Benchmark/etcMeasurements and recommended information (tentative, be wary of shills):pastebin.com/XK9E6PZ9 (old)oratory EQstereophile.comaudiosciencereview.comrtings.com/headphonescrinacle.com/graphskuulokenurkka.squig.linkold >>100280313
good morning sirstotal postex tranny death
Are SHP9500 no longer made?
>>100328482protips for sturdy headphones i can use exclusively to watch movies? so sturdy that they dont break if i fall asleep wearing them. budget €150~
https://twitter.com/Sennheiser/status/1787221949631836249HD 620S (closed back tuned to Harman OE) is coming soon!>inb4 nooo closed back suxx!stfu.
>>100328798can you stop fucking posting this every thread
>>100328875fucking finally, took them like 30 years to make hd600 but close back
>>100328898can you stop being rude in every thread?
>>100328875>using hd560s-like chassis>hd6x0 namingngmi
>>100328875>>100329028>>100328993
>closed back>>100329034holy mother of dogshit
>>100329076doesn't look that bad
>>100328482>>$150~$250You should add Rode NTH-100's to the list
>>100329034>The HD 620S is currently available for pre-order, and begins shipping on June 6th 2024, and will be available from select retailers and at sennheiser-hearing.com with an RRP of £299.99 / €349.90.Lol? At this price they should've used the HD490 Pro chassis rather than this ovary shaped looking ass chassis.
>>100329034dog
>>100329230absolute and complete dog shitirredeemable, unfixable and utterly worthlessdo you even own it?
>>100329851K361/71 is the same fragile shit and with any tiny leakage, the bass disappears.
>>100329922retard
>>100329230Should I really though?
>>100330364no but you should kill yourself doe
>>100328798Pro4AA-senpai will punish you for falling asleep.
>>100330390Killing myself is not headphones related.
>>100330560keep reporting me then surely janny is going to ban me this time for real
TH808 BUY? or should i buy adx5000???
>>100330595You're confusing me with someone else and need to back your goofy self up.
>>100330605>postexkill yourself
>>100331160got it i will get adx5000
I want to buy (chinkshit) cushions/pads to put on my custom 3D printed headphones. Haven't designed them yet, so I can pick whatever and base the design off that, though I'd prefer round rather than square or oval. What matters is they fit my freakishly big ears (67mm tall, 33mm wide, stick out at almost 90° angle, are uncomfortable when pushed back into my head).I'll be scavenging the drivers from a crusty old pair of Pioneer DJ headphones, and will shove an FM radio receiver in there, so audio quality doesn't matter that much here.
>>100331895brainwavz and misodiko
>>100333895Are they burning in?
>>100334691No they're sitting on a table.
All you guys will ever need~*Bonus points with a certain mod*
>>100330605TH808 is overpriced. If you're interested in that, try the 909 instead. ADX 5000 and HD800S are fun to try back to back if you have access to demoing them. >>100331160Don't listen to this anon, he's mentally ill.
>>100329028this
Are the headphone-out ports on AV Receivers usually good or bad sources?I recently bought a Yamaha RX-V4A to put on my desk to drive my speakers. I already have a JDS Atom for my cans but I was wondering how it compares to AV Receiver power on a data level.
>>100330605I own the TH900 (balanced cable mod Lawton Black Scorpion), and I will always recommend them without hesitation. I haven’t heard the TH808 but if it really does use the same drivers and 1.5 Tesla magnet array I would say it can’t be that much of a downgrade, if at all. ADX5000 is well-known to be good but I can’t offer any experience. TH900 is super dynamic, fast, with high-end bass being the notable features. Very pleasing sound eve though it will lose out in sound stage and macro-resolution. I note that prices have really gone up since mine were new.
>>100336359They can be very decent in fact, probably thanks to having real power supplies backing up the amp circuit.
Other than electrocstatics what are the closest headphones to speakers under $5000? I will be moving from a house to an apartment where I can't use my speakers but I really hate headphones
>>100336914LCD-5 is $4500 and has massive drivers>>100333895imagine wearing any of these in the summer
Any recommendations for good headphone cables at a non-ripoff price?
>>100337267openheart cables on aliexpress, not that it matters what kind of cable you use
>>100337267Tripowin Granvia, Hart audio cables for interconnects, Aliexpress offerings that go on sale (Don't worry about the flavour texts, sometimes they just make shit up)
>>100337474>$40 for a 2m cablefuck off chink>>100337495>Hart audio>$50 cables>Tripowin Granvia>$60 cables
holy fuck chang
>>100337575i am >>100337267 and just bought a 1.4m openheart cable for $20 AUD (about $13 USD). Good enough for me.
where can i buy just the wire and the connectors and do the same shit for like 1/5 the price
>>100337575>fuck off chinkDo you know what non-chinese brands charge for these kinds of cables? It's all relative.
>>100337648>Do you know what non-chinese brands charge for these kinds of cables?$100? >It's all relative.relative if you want to get fucked by some slant eyed jew, that cable costs $5 to make and you are a massive faggot for paying 10x more than that
Does anyone here have experience soldering a 3.5mm or 1/4 jack onto the end of a headphone cable? Is it a straight-forward process?
>>100338068not if you have a shit iron like i do
>>100337838>$100minimum, and it also costs them $5 to make, so I'd rather give my money to chinese jews that still rip me off less than western jews
>>100338134ok but if you told me where can i buy just the wire and terminate it myself i'd be happy to make it myself
>>100338161You can buy it on aliexpress :^)
>>100338172i imagine that's true but i cant come up with a search query to find themi might just buy a 2 pin iem cable and cut it up and put my own connectors on
>>100338204Include diy in the search. Diy headphone cable, jack, etc.
>>100338329i found fuck alli'll just get an iem cable and cut it up, hopefully these fancy shits arent microphonic
>>100328482psa that android will force your 44.1khz music to be resampled to 48khz. not something you'd want. get something like usb audio player pro or neutron to bypass this. you're welcome.
>>100338727i dont know what resampling is nor why should i care
>>100338761you know how if you scale up an image from 640x480 to 800x600 it becomes blurry?this is the equivalent for music, though less apparent. you want bitperfect playback, especially if you use an external dac.
>>100338778>this is the equivalent for musicIn what way?
>>100338727Who are you talking to?
>>100338935losing the original data and getting an approximation.
>>100338778>>100338956You're actually gaining data because DAC reconstruction filters are very simple and roll-off before 20kHz. Resampling in the OS avoids that problem and you get flat frequency response even beyond 20kHz.
>>100328875>non-600 housing>non-600 frequency response>non-600 closed backNo thanks, gonna stick to the usual shit that all the forums have been shilling for the past 30 years. Headphones are solved and we don’t need anything new or for other use cases.
>>100328993How many years to make hd600 but good.
>>100336304kill yourself postex tranny
>>100329371490pro is made by a different company they probably dont share designs
>>100339521maybe but the 400 pro is a reskin of the 560s so it's not an unthinkable scenario
>>100339563this was before they sold off whichever division they did
Where can I find Peace/EQ configuration for human voice/podcasts?Something that boosts the human voice frequencies
>>100340055boost 3k till the clarity is enough for ya
>>100340188podcast subhumans cannot do audio, they all literally have 0 clue what they're doing it's impossible to listen to any podcast because they sound so badbring down mids and/or upper bass and boost 1-3khz
>>100336359 here.Just did some testing with my Focal Clears.Between the Yamaha RX-V4A's headphone amp and my Topping D10 + JDS Atom, I can say for 100% certain the bass hits a lot harder on the Yamaha. It is clearly a bigger, fuller sound if that makes sense.
>>100336359Depends on if they use a dedicated headphone stage, or just slap a big fuckoff resistor between the speaker out and the headphone out.>>100340533Explained by high output impedance, just like HD600s gaining bass on OTL tube amps. Nothing to do with "having more power behind it"
>>100340533Yeah that basically means you want to get a 120 ohm adapter for them to use with the amp.
Is 250Ohm a meme?
the perfect headphone for electronic music and rock music, but without emotions
emotions
>>100344232In what context?
>>100344232Ohms are a meme. They literally don't mean anything(without sensitivity).
>>100345413>>100344651what crystals do you recommend for electronic music?
Just broke my 6th pair of cables for my HD 600sSick of them breaking all the god damn time. I really should stop dropping them off my desk but the chair pulls on the cables too often and sometimes I fail to catch them in time.Now that I've esentially purchased another pair of the headphones for the same fucking cost as all these cables, I need to buy a new headset to prevent this from happening again.What are some nice headphones that can suffer my abuse that are <$400.I really loved the fostex I had several years back before I RMA'd them three times for breaking the headset because of their perma attached cables (took money back the last time instead of a replacement) . I'm pretty sure I'm the reason they made their headphones finally have detachable cables.
>>100347253The hd 490 pro
im looking for integrated amplifiers and recievers at thrift stores and stuff. are there any brands or decades that I should avoid or is anything decent as long as it doesnt look like it was in a dirty home.
>>100347306Yeah I bought one largely for the cable.Wanted a non-proprietary cable on the left (so I can use mouse without interference).Bit annoying it's 4 pin instead of more common 3 pin.
>>100347306pro or pro plus?
>>100348565same thing but pro plus if you want a case and an extra cable
>>100329371Apart from being made by a different company the HD 490 Pro chassis is probably far more expensive to produce.It's meant for professional use so it has to take a lot of abuse.HD 620S is aimed at consumers who want better audio quality and will take better care of their expensive personal headset than some rando renting a studio for a day.Sure it would be nice if it had a professional level build as well but then it would probably cost at least $600.
>>100348632>different company>same name and logosounds weird
>>100348805It is weird, yes.They recently sold their consumer branch to a Swiss hearing aid company.sennheiser.com is the original company's website, now only selling professional audio equipment.sennheiser-hearing.com is the sold off division's website.I suspect the new owner will focus more on in-ears, since they're a hearing aid company and that's probably where they see most potential for growth (wireless in-ears are very popular now thanks to Apple).Maybe one of the logo's will change in time, maybe they will even change the brand name.
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>>100328482Requesting advice:I want to buy an AT ATH-R70x (recommended in the OP) but I've never used high impedance headphones before. This one has 470 ohms. I don't need a DAC, just an amp. Random googling gives me the Fiio A5 Portable Amplifier. My question is: can this amp connect to my laptop/smartphone/PS Vita/Nintendo 3DS via the 3.5mm jack and then to my headphones via another 3.5 mm? If not, any other amp you'd recommend?Sorry for the noob question, I'm not a regular here on /hpg/ and this is the first time ever in my life that I'm actually considering an amplifier. Only reason I'm asking for just an amp without a DAC is because I know even less about DACs, so I'm not even going to bother.
>>100352570get this $15 dollar one if you only need amplification.https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006523867184.htmlit's amazing.
>>100352610nevermind, just saw you need 470ohm...it's brother goes to 300ohm, should be sufficient.maybe worth a try for such a cheap price.
New Zealand$100-$150NZD / $60-90USDRunning/JoggingClosed back over ear.Preferred tonal balance / genres: Mainly prog rock and hip hop, not too bass heavy though.Past headphones: Only real good ones would be my current at home use ones the Sennheiser HD58X. Really like them, could be a bit more comfortable. Could sound slightly more "engaging" or V shaped.Sources: Predominantly via bluetooth/Samsung S23.Other requirements: Bluetooth (I know boo) Something that can hold up to sweat during exercise and is fairly sturdy.
hello audio autists, thinking of doing an apparent no-no, but wondering maybe things have changed in several yearsnot in a rush for now, but I'm thinking of getting replacement earpads for my senns, hd560s and maybe hd599Once I bought genuine pads when I ripped the hd558 pads, but honestly the full price is for complete moronsNOW, if I'd choose the chinkshit pads, I imagine there can't be really any major differences in sound perception if I choose the velvet/velour pads, but the ability to choose intrigued mecloth pads should probably have a longer longevity, but maybe rougher on the head, any experiences?also interested in the cooling gel one, because it gets hot and sweaty in summer, but doubtful if it won't be very negative on soundhttps://a.aliexpress.com/_EI3YTBDanyone have any thoughts on this?
>>100352624I found this, the XDUOO MT-602. It's not portable and does require it to be plugged-in, but it should function the same right? 3.5mm jumper from laptop/phone/gaming handheld, and then 3.5mm from the amp to my headphones, yeah?Anyone else bought this one?
>>100352850It's cheap enough that you might as well try it out on a lark.
>>100352624"muh ohms" tells you jack shit
pic rel just got delivered, what am I in for /g/?
>>100356712hearing damage
OMG!! New Fecals are bangers!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3-XPOHbd7g
>>100356869How shit will the build be at those price point?
>>100347113Ones you can shove up your ass
