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In Reply to: I just bought headphones and I hate the sound posted by Frank on July 9, 1999 at 22:28:16:
If you can find them, try a pair of Sony MDR-7506's. They are not expensive but beat all other headphones we have compared them to with respect to "true accuracy" - regardless of price. Also the MDR-7506's are the headphones used by many of the top recording and mastering studios - especially those who care about the quality of their product.I used them for monitoring while recording 70-plus performances of the Colorado Springs Symphony. Using 1/2 inch, instrumentation mics (over $3,000 each), located about 8 feet above my head, I was unable to detect any significant audible difference between the live sound of the orchestra and what I heard through the phones. The recorder was a professional 24-bit DAT machine. Several local audiophiles who occassionally helped me set up the equipment and stayed for the performance said they also could hear no difference between the live orchestra and what they heard through the phones.
These recordings were played a week later over local "classical FM station KCME.
We tried many other headphones, including other Sopny models, but none came even close to the performance of the MDR-7506'S.
Best of listening,
John Dunlavy
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