You never know give em a try people like em. I don’t, but my ears are dumb
The worst I’ve ever heard amongst well-liked cans and Iems in our collective hobby: Meze 99 Classics, Hifiman He-400i, Monoprice M1060, Audio Technica ATH-M50X, BeyerdynamicT90, AKG K240, Tin T2, Audeze iSine 10 and 20. The T90, Meze and M50x are top 3 for me.
EDIT: I am super picky though, especially with upper mids and treble. My tolerance threshold in those ranges is not very forgiving.
Everything’s going warm/dark. what am i gonna do?
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Get a headphone that is not warm/dark, there are still plenty out there
You know how I feel when I’d rather listen to a Grado SR80E over the headphones that I mentioned above…and I’m somewhat treble sensitive saying that, lol.
Here’s my take on grado lol
This isn’t to discourage people from buying them, I just personally don’t prefer them, although the ps500e is pretty decent imo
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Their website tagline says it all really. “Headphones and cartridges since 1953”
Yeah but all the best ones are warm/dark. it just seems to be a trend. and all the cool headphone startups are warm/dark. Audeze, Meze, ZMF, Dan Clark, Rosson and now Verum.
Some flagship level headphones that aren’t warm/dark: adx5000, ab1266 phi tc, final d8000 pro, any of the estats, zmf has some brighter offerings, DCA also has some brighter headphones (or neutral), hd800s, raal sr1a, Utopia, and more lol
I will agree that the tastes are shifting to a more fun sound now compared to a few years ago, but there will always be brighter high end stuff
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High-ohm headphones are often low-sensitivity, so they require more power to drive, so even if they don’t need high current they will still need higher voltage than some on-board can give.
Low-ohms are usually high-sensitivity (in-ears), so the power requirement is peanuts (you can drive them from a phone), but if the impedance goes too low they start to look more and more like a short-circuit, which means they will heat up any component in that circuit that isn’t designed for high currents. (Also since they need so little power to get loud, they come with more danger of causing hearing damage if you plug them into some “normal-power” device that was left at a high volume setting.)
The Verum isn’t very sensitive, it’s at a sort of middle of the road value, but its impedance is half of what you usually see on the lowest-impedance in-ears, so you can expect most weak sources (phones) to heat up more than usual while driving them, especially if you like your music very loud. The easiest solution for this is to get a cheap impedance adapter to connect between the headphones and your source device, and make it look like the Verum is more of a “normal” headphone, electrically.
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Be aware that it may change the sound and also if your amp can’t power it normally well at all, you would really be better off getting a proper amp
Meh. Word on the street is planars are usually almost purely resistive, so their sound doesn’t change much from an impedance adapter. Even the change in dynamic headphones with a far-from-flat impedance/frequency characteristic isn’t much to worry about until the adapter reaches values way beyond the headphone’s own impedance.
Just wanted to add that it could not that it will, but it probably is something you don’t need to worry about as you say. Also it depends on the planar, some are sensitive to that and some are not (most are not)
Beyerdynamic T1, Hifiman Susvara, Hifiman HE1000, Sennheiser HD800, Pioneer SE-Master1, Grado PS1000e, Audeze LCD-4, Fostex TH900, Ultrasone Edition 8 are all Bright and detail oriented.
The original th900 yeah, otherwise the mk2 is warmer. Also the t1 can be warm at times. And the lcd4 is still darker compared to other headphones.
Let me touch on the master1 because those things are something lol. They have detail to spare but what the heck is their tuning, it just sounds wrong, not really for studio or music lol, it’s just really weird and unpleasant
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What I was calling an “attenuator” is an impedance adapter. Single ended that made the amp “see” 32 ohms was dirt cheap from aliexpress , probably dirt cheap elsewhere.
I don’t think these change the sound at all. Except setting volume level. Reading “around” on ASR forums I was led to believe that the adapters aren’t necessary for my amps, even though the manufacturers warnings might indicate “don’t use anything below 12 ohms” or some such. To me, it was just cheap insurance.
The balanced adapter was not so cheap, but still affordable for the peace of mind.
Also I don’t think the Verums are particularly dark, more “warm” than cool yes… darker than the Blon B20, yes. But they have enough treble to save them from “darkness,” imo.
wow, thats a lot of money. 2500$ thats like crazy town money
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That could be a good thing as it discourages people from buying that headphone lol
I thought that headphone sounded really really bad. Like in every way, very bad. It sounded like a hollow, yet sibilant Focal Utopia wannabe.
Yeah its like a failed experiment, which is unfortunate because the design is there but the execution was poor
AKG K812 was also kinda a similar experience to me
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