Interesting insights, thanks.Bothand Nether wrote:It also might have to do with the Ohmage of the cans, possibly?
I kinda think today's amps are more for lower ohm headphones, even daw opamps.
Having had the pleasure of borrowing a Kemper KPA for nearly a Year,
I got a different set of headphones for referencing just guitar (specifically distortion)
I've used AKG K240s for referencing & casual tracking all My life, so I did a lot of research before I tried some new phones.
I ended up returning 2 different sets of open cans (Sennheiser & AKG), both were advertised as being for studio use.
Both sets were bass heavy compared to My studio 2.1 monitors, and seemed fairly lifeless to me above 1k, as well.
Then I tried a friend's set of electrostatic "Ear Speakers" & it's preamp thingy from Stax and got what I needed, frequency-wise.
I can't really afford a good Stax rig, but I did some more research and found out that
AKG once made a set of electrostatic/dynamic hybrid headphones that had traditional low end, but electrostatic mids/highs.
The original AKG340 (not the new earbud) are almost vintage,but may be worth checking out.
-if You really need to hear things differently than your current set.
They made a "bass heavy" as well as a mid & a high -favoured set, I got the mid fwiw.
Head-fi has a good deal of info on them.(as well as a guy that mods them, of course)
I got them on ebay and am quite happy with how they sound, needing as flat a response as possible.
& I like playing on the edge of distortion, so these help me when I need to listen closely to that edge.
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All headphones have their own unique sound and usage right? So these cans were not the right choice for what you set out to use them for. This is not a reflection of the headphones per se.
If OSG has tort me anything...