Hmm, you may have a preference for warmer presentation headphones. Few things, Youtube has a lot of bad quality videos it’s not particularly what I would use as a testing ground for sound qualities… all to many times have I used youtube only to get distortion, compression, or alterations and low bit rates. Higher sample rates and lossless music is the better testing ground.
That would be like asking me my opinion on sound demos from youtube like I have seen zeos have… while yes, you can get a somewhat general idea of their sound it definitely isn’t reliable nor fully accurate.
However, I can hear the neutrality and brightness more from the shp9600 while the x2hr I hear the warmth to the lows and mids as well as it’s larger soundstage. The brightness can add in some cases a thinner sound to some songs to the point of sounding potentially hollow which can also effect bad recordings so hard to say. However, I do hear that slightly less full sound from the 9600 as well as using my own T1 out of that in comparison to my x2hr, x3, audeze, and aeons which have the more full representation of sound. It really boils down to the sound signature and actual recording quality though a lot of cases this really isn’t such an issue but it also depends on if you like the brighter sound.
Warmer and darker headphones tend to have a full or rather “rich” sound to them very lush and full bodied and audeze is a good representation of that.
It has more impact causing it to punch a bit harder and the bass isn’t full rounded off so it has a bit of a Planar like slam much like the DT 1990’s have despite being dynamic headphones. However, it’s that sound doesn’t extend very deep unlike the x2hr which can extend deeper into it’s lows and sub bass extensions going from lows to mids top that off with 9600 is brighter while x2hr is warmer so x2hr can appear to be more well bodied and full. I love the x2hr I just wish the bass wasn’t screwed up would be a hell of a lot better.
hmm, It’s hard to say in this case as you don’t have an amp yet. if you are able to hear the differences in sound signature go with the one you feel most comfortable with overall as my opinion in that regard doesn’t particularly matter. However, In terms of placement and bass of competitive gaming the x2hr does lose to the 9600 I can confirm that rather easily though granted the x2hr is the more “fun” headphone with much more padding to it.
I never really use any onboard audio anymore. It always sounds terrible to me… Especially with the ps4 over there having one of the worst sound cards I have seen in a while as it can’t even really properly power around 40 ohms and is weaker than my old laptops motherboard. Also the fact that plugging a headphone into the controller using a wireless signal is going to screw with the sound qualities as anything wireless loses quite a bit especially in terms of clarity.
Personally, I think the shp9600 is a dramatic upgrade in sound qualities over the X2HR the more I have listened to it. If I was really nitpicking with the two the shp9600 could have better extensions on the low to drive deeper though this could give it much more rumble, this I just recently tested though and can become better by using Tubes as when I use my Liquid Platinum the low end improves by quite a good margin, but the issues I have with the x2hr’s weight, heat build up, and low end screwing with the mids and just being muddy is a problem for me… some people are okay with it I am definitely not