RE: Best headphone set up?

Posted by genungo on July 24, 2015 at 17:10:40

In Reply to: RE: Best headphone set up? posted by Wesley Miaw on July 24, 2015 at 15:59:53:

I have the feeling that I might listen to music a bit louder than you do, too.

My AKG K-701s usually sound best to me at six or seven on the volume knob, while my Sennheiser HD650s usually only need a four or a five. This works well with good quality, dynamically uncompressed recordings.

With poor quality, "loud", and dynamically compressed recordings the above settings get shoved down a notch or two. OTOH, my phono preamp does not provide as much gain as my digital sources do and so the volume level usually gets turned up a notch when I'm playing vinyl.

So, the ideal volume setting often depends on the state of the recording, at least for for me.

I have the original dual XLR balanced version of the Sonett.

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Topic - Best headphone set up? - ruxtonvet 15:37:07 05/13/15 (22)

RE: Best headphone set up? - Wesley Miaw 15:40:12 07/24/15 (4)

RE: Best headphone set up? - genungo 15:51:34 07/24/15 (3)

RE: Best headphone set up? - Wesley Miaw 15:59:53 07/24/15 (2)

RE: Best headphone set up? - genungo 17:10:40 07/24/15 (1)

HiFiMan HE-1000 Matched with a Violectric Audio HPA V281 - audiophile919 12:38:39 08/19/15 (0)

RE: Best headphone set up? - krankkall 15:20:27 07/17/15 (0)

RE: Best headphone set up? - nl 06:08:19 07/16/15 (1)

RE: Best headphone set up? - genungo 10:31:29 07/17/15 (0)

My vote is Grado PS500, but it's your ears in the end that matter. - robertd 11:54:23 07/12/15 (3)

RE: My vote - genungo 12:05:58 07/12/15 (2)

RS1 - don't remember if I tried it. But I do love rock music - robertd 12:39:02 07/12/15 (1)

RE: RS1 - don't remember if I tried it. But I do love rock music - genungo 13:03:43 07/12/15 (0)

Well, there obviously is no "best" ... - Mike K 07:41:29 06/29/15 (0)

RE: Best headphone set up? - JimL 09:40:34 05/25/15 (0)

RE: Best headphone set up? - joessportster 19:01:17 05/15/15 (0)

RE: Best headphone set up? - robss 17:20:08 05/15/15 (0)

RE: Best headphone set up? - trioderob 14:34:58 05/15/15 (1)

RE: Best headphone set up? - trioderob 15:10:58 05/15/15 (0)

there is also this - texanater 10:30:51 05/15/15 (0)

'the phones are heavy' - mbnx01 20:17:50 05/14/15 (0)

I wouldn't fear IEMs - texanater 07:23:13 05/14/15 (0)

RE: Best headphone set up? - Bill Way 18:16:13 05/13/15 (0)

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RE: Best headphone set up? - genungo 17:10:40 07/24/15 (1)

HiFiMan HE-1000 Matched with a Violectric Audio HPA V281 - audiophile919 12:38:39 08/19/15 (0)

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