And of course no measurements on the site. What professional would like to know the performance of the professional gear he is buying? :/
That's what independent reviewers are for.
www.rtings.com
www.head-fi.org
For sure! I about fell over when I saw the $495 price tag. I checked amazon and I bought mine for $90 back in 2016. Eventually I gave mine to my son. We had to replace the earpads in 2020 (Brainwaves perforated), but to be fair he did use them daily.
That's a fair bit better then!
I thought the $495 price was a typo, but someone is actually trying to sell a used unit for that much, and I am sure since they are no longer in production, some sucker will buy it,.
I owned the 7506 model a while back, glad I made my money back on Ebay, didn't like them one bit.
I used these or even earlier models when I did sound for television production, they were THE standard. Never noticed anything else on location or on a set. Rarely used for music, used primarily for making sure voice was recorded properly. Never had an issue with them, in those circumstances, and they were relatively cheap.
The error bars overlap. Inasmuch as there is a difference in preference rating, it is not statistically significant. If anything, what can be said is that HP13 is not less preferred than the target by untrained listeners. The same can also be said about HP14.Interesting. FR Looks very funky and channel imbalance looks worrying.
FR looks quite similar to HP13 from the study, which most people think is 7506.
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Interestingly enough, untrained people find these headphones (assuming it is indeed HP13 in the study) slightly more preferable than the target itself.
It is not obvious to me at all why that would be the case.
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Listeners of course were using another pair of headphones tuned to FR of these headphones for testing so they would not be exposed to distortion of these headphones, whether it is audible or not.
No. I would speculate weak ability to discriminate since trained listeners separate them from the target. It seems to be +-3dB from the target throughout without a big resonance peak or dip. That may be due to smoothing, however. If the smoothed response was the EQ-target, this may make it rather inoffensive.
Even a gas-station IEM like the Panasonics cured any urge I had for expensive and disappointing headphones. After the Panasonics came the Salnotes. Which, though they sound immaculate, are rather cumbersome -- an issue resolved with my latest buy, the Tanchjim Ones. I'm all set now.
