But the bass frequency response of a headphone depends on so many things: Temperature of the cushions, if youre wearing glasses etc. the Fostex 909 is good at this and also audeze are quite competent for this. Getting the bass level right in the mix is indeed very hard to be done on headphones. He did the mastering for the Kraftwerk 3D Album which was nominated for a grammy, so he must have done something right. I got the tipp of the hd 600 by Tom Ammerman who use them for his 3D Headphone mixes. A complete flat measured frequency response of a Headphone would sound awful, because there are several aspects of the ear and how we hear sound that is near and far away, so the 1/3 octave hearing comparison is the closest thing you can get to “neutral sound”. And in this range the HD 600 are very linear.
But this only works between frequencies from 100 Hz to 10 kHz, because its very hard for the human ear to compare the loudness of two signals below or above those frequencies. You can compare it by ear by using 1/3 octave bands derived of pink noise.: You listen to the band in the room then you turn on the headphones and turn the level of the headphones so that you perceive the same loudness as in the room – repeat for every frequency band. Neutrality means that the percieved (not measured) loudness of a headphone is similar to some neutral calibrated monitors in a complete diffuse room.
#Sennheiser hd600 sonarworks reference 4 subpac s2 software
I dont know the curve of the AKG 712, I might look them up in the sonarworks software later (the demo is a good place to see frequency curves of headphones) Well you are right that the HD600 have a rolloff in the bass below 100 Hz. Its nice to have a qualified argument about this Which is another reason that there can be no one perfect headphone.īesides arguing the merits of individual models, I wish to emphasise that any categorical statement about the superiority of a headset is always wrong… unless the function and listening context is taken into account. How this sounds will vary greatly from one listener to another. On the other hand, the K712 has greater variation in the high frequencies. It simply paints a misleading picture in this range.
Not insignificant!įurthermore, the impulse response of the HD600 at low frequencies is very inaccurate compared with the K712. For this I much prefer the AKG K712, which has the same frequency response at 20 Hz that it has at 1k. But not dance, techno, electroacoustic, etc. But from my impressions at the time, I would be happy to use them to mix rock, jazz, and most other music. I don’t own the HD600, and it’s been ages since I heard them. Mix on these and you will compensate by bringing up the bass, accentuating any problems that might already exist in the part of the spectrum with the most energy. Their main disadvantage is a significant bass roll-off that makes them a poor choice for electronic music… what most people on this forum will be making.
And if there is such a mythical beast, the HD600 isn’t it. It’s untrue, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as neutral headphones. The sennheiser hd600 is the most neutral sounding on the market.
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