Feelas
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Yes, that is the common thing I notice a lot on them - it feels strange, since the reverb happens to enlarge & widen the audio sources, as it should, but oftentimes doesn't - it seems that 371's FR presents a realistic main sound vs reflections balance (obviously, meaning the recorded reflections), thus predence effect is happening correctly.I've noticed many times that all kinds of reverb gets enhanced on my pair.
I mean the effect, where the head is "gluing" reflections with direct sound - this is mostly referred to in room acoustics, yet recordings also should make that happen on headphones, since they're a combination of direct & reflected sound, albeit since headphones aren't that reflective, this makes it possible for the real recording reverb to come through - unless you somehow underline the reflections, as having a hyped treble range could do. I'd be happy to see this being discussed in the future, because clearly there's something going on. I might be off with the reasons, but I think that smoothness of response & the dips around 4-6kHz might contribute to getting these components to be hearable.
Also, on many recordings you can clearly hear the directionality of closely miked guitar amps, which is something I didn't notice on anything else, before - it might be due to being mid-fi until then. In any case - really amusing and interesting.
It also makes an unpleasant experience (which I personally love) of a closed-in sound, since these don't seem to throw away the characteristics of small rooms and recordings made there sound close & reflective. Even on ASR I've read reports of a somehow forced front/narrow representation, which could theoretically be attributed to recordings which are made in small spaces & just sound like that, which character is hidden by overhyped gear.
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