Hey Brian,
I’ll be curious to hear what you end up going with along with your evaluation
of whatever you decided to try.
Good luck,
Tom
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Dear Tom and Ross,
Ross. I have many of those already. The Audeze sounds interesting though.
Tom. I wish I had a pair of 3 ways monitors like yours. Grin
The Austrian Audio are within my price range, so I’ll definitely give them a
listen.
Actually I’m planning to get 2 pairs this time. Some for mastering, and a pair
of Sony wh 1000xm5 for ordinary listening.
But as I live in a flat and can’t experiment with various volume settings on
real speakers a compromise must be to get a good pair of open cans.
By the way I fully agree with all your other wise words. 😊
Brian
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Hi Brian,
Of course there’s only about a thousand headphones to choose from, and
subjectivity comes into play on all this stuff. But there’s been an explosion
in headphone development in recent years with a lot of phenomenal cups on the
market today. So for what it’s worth, here’s my suggestion.
I don’t mix or master on headphones. But I have two pair I wouldn’t hesitate to
do so on. The first pair is from the real world. That is the Austrian Audio
Hi-X65 open backs. 429 dollars. They are extremely well built, lightweight, and
comfortable. They have superb clarity, definition, separation, and punch. Their
25 ohm impedance makes them a breeze to drive. They have a frequency response
of 5 Hz to 28 kHz. And they translate extremely well to my three-way monitors.
They were designed for mixing and mastering.
Of course any new headphones or monitors are a change. And sometimes, depending
on what we’ve been using it takes time to get used to that change. If your
current headphones are aimed at the consumer market they’re unlikely to have a
flat response. And closed backs more often than not have a sound of their own.
This is one of the things that has been worked on in recent years, getting
closed backs to sound more like open backs. The trick is learning the new cups.
Mix and master on them and then listen to your final mixes on everything
possible, e.g. monitors, stereo speakers, a boombox, in the car, etc. Getting a
mix that translates well to all will show you what you have to keep in mind
while working your mixes.
The other pair I have are the Focal Clear MG Pro. But They’re three times the
price. So I won’t say anything other than you get what you pay for. And even
with that having had been said, I just, for the first time, spent a while
listening to my Focal Celestee closed backs I use for tracking, the Clears, and
then the Hi-X65s, and I must say, the Austrian Audios were still a wonderful
listen. If I had no monitors they would certainly remain in the mixing mix
along with the Focals.
Good luck. I hope you find cups that sound right and work right for you.
Regards,
Tom
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Dear maggers,
I love headphones, but till now I’ve board only closed headphones for some
reason.
But I’ve read that semi opened or open-back should be way better for mastering.
So I’d like to ask you, what you prefer to master on?
I have some expensive Beyer Dynamic, Yamahas, and Bose.
But I’d like to get a new very good pair for mastering as monitors don’t work
for me.
What would you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
Brian
