ok, well i really love the m50x headphones. as a matter of fact I think the most perfect headphones are the Beats headphones. what do you think of that Mon?
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Thatās fine, thatās your opinion. That doesnāt change mine but Iām not going to deny you of your experience
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But you dont want to try to dispel my wrong notion of a great headphone? recommend something better?
Sure, Iāll recommend something better to my ears, but itās your ears and your final choice. If you enjoy beats more thatās just fine, whatever is the most enjoyable to you. Thatās not what I would recommend to other people, but if it works for you and thatās what you prefer, Iām not going to argue that
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I think the perfect headphone is a top of the line headphones you see companies make Abyss AB-1266 Phi TC, Focal Utopia, Meze Emperion, HIFIMAN SHANGRI-LA jr, Sennheiser HE 1. But their too expensive. Thats why im really pushing for the technology to advance and get cheaper. so the perfect can become attainable.
Hopefully the trend of cheaper getting better continues lol
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Looking at KSC75ā¦
how to get perfect headphones
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make an algorithm with every single headphone on the market with very pinpoint details on how to they sound and sit and comfort and other
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have someone measure the size of both your ears individually
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have a indepth test to see what frequencies you have and how biased you are to certain frequencies
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give person in charge of algorithm this information as well as a list of songs you usually listen to (probably your spotify or tidal account or whatever you use)
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have them figure out what would sound ABSOLUTELY PERFECT for you based on all of that going down to a .00000001hz margin of error
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Then paint it bright teal and make the pads out of brown crushed velvet.
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The KSC75 has been around for quite some time already though.
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True. Just saying itās a good example of good price to performance.
Yeah it is. Sort of begs the question why the other companies are still charging the way they do.
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I think most of it has to do with name and fame with brand names. Why can Beats sell crappy bluetooth on-ears for hundreds? Because they are famous, used by famous people, so they must be good. This even happens in the audiophile community, and is not just limited to headphones. Plus, it seems that many companies know that audiophiles in general are willing to pay more than they should for hifi, and they exploit this, to a certain extent.
This is why Iām so interested in chi-fi to see how quickly it starts to take off, especially with IEMs.
I donāt think there will ever be a perfect headphone for the simple reason that no headphone will ever be the most comfortable headphone for everyone, some people want open back, others closed back and people do have different preferences for tuning. And I suspect Iām not the only one who likes a range of sound signatures, not just a single sound. So for example, I love my accurate, analytical Etymotic ER4 SR IEMs just as much as my ultra-smooth and laid back if slightly muddy Nighthawk carbons just as much as my all arounder models like the Denon D7200 and Oppo PM-2. They all have a place and I really wouldnāt want to be without any of them.
So I suppose the perfect headphone would be built with some sort of mechanism to switch from open to closed, have some sort of built in DSP to alter tuning and a custom fit system (actually, when it comes to comfort I think the Nighthawk is a model of comfort which others could study).
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KPH30i is the undisputed king its just amazing youāll never get sound out of anything quite like this king
Perfect headphone to listen to is the Fostex XOO
perfect overall rediculous I canāt believe the sound Sendy Aiva
(There is no perfect headphone but you maybe able to hear god with the sendy Aivaās)
Iāve seen a lot about neutrality and man having owned the Ether CX the headphone is so PAINFULLY neutral its just boring. So neutrality isnāt that great