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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Saturday, 23 May 2009 01:56 |
So, the WeSC Oboe.
AKG K-240 Studio, WeSC Oboe, Soft Cell's "Cruelty Without Beauty" CD. And a cat ear.
How shall it be put... They're not exactly horrible, no. As it happens there're commenters who insist they're really great, and there're some who wrote they're not worth the money. Truth, as usual, is somewhere in the middle. |
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Written by Aenn Seidhe Priest
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Saturday, 11 April 2009 01:31 |
This is not for the faint bank accounts.
Ingredients
Software player and encoder: Foobar2000 player with Secret Rabbit Code resampling plugin and BS2B "headphone stereo" plugin.
Free wave processor: SoX - features an analogue filter emulation.
CD audio declip utility: Declip Pro (32-bit) - fixes CD dynamics squashed/clipped by mastering.
Alternately (expensive): Waves S1 Stereoimager+ (Blumlein-style stereo imaging, great for headphones) and Izotope Trash (as dynamics processor).
Headphones: AKG K-240 Studio (Mk. II is more expensive and mostly the same thing, except for extras like vinyl pads; *not* K-242HD with a fixed cable) or AKG K-271 Studio (less bass, more isolation) or any other model with a mini-XLR socket. K-141 and K-171 aren't that recommended as they're supra-aural, more fatiguing and with a less natural sound. K-702 will boost total cost beyond $1000.
Cable for AKG headphones: Sweetcome Diva Mk. II or Sweetcome Diva Junior. Those are the best cost/performance cables.
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 02:08 |
A concise review of Roland RH-50, some of the best-value $50 closed headphones.
Featuring some acoustic insights and a few hints on modding...
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Written by Matthew Scarlett
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 15:35 |
Competition: Win the Newly Released Sennheiser HD238 headphones.
I love the Sennheiser HD205 headphones. I wrote a review on Amazon in which I stated that they are:
One of the better Sennheiser’s!
But I think there might be some fake HD205’s on the market, and I
need confirmation, this is where you come in. Click the image below for
more information.
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Written by Matthew Scarlett
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Sunday, 15 March 2009 00:55 |
This is another one of those, 'grab it while you can' deals. The Goldring GX100 headphones are currently going for the merely price of £7.99 from Planet Gizmo. My goodness, I bought a pizza last night that cost more than that (pepperoni). I've already got two of my friends to ditch their ipod earphones and Buy the Goldring's instead.
I got mine!
Better than the GX200?
Well, the GX100 has made more of an impression on me, especially at £7.99!! The sound is good, even at the retail price.
Better than the Denon AH-C252?
I think so. the bass extension is better, and the whole presentation is better defined.
Anyway, click here, buy them and enjoy!
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009 01:53 |
So, the last two sets to make their way here are Roland RH-50 and WeSC Oboe Tangerine. Quite a curious combination. Both cost roughly $50 (less) online. Both are supra-aural. Both have the same impedance - 32-ohm. Both have a fairly high efficiency, above 100 dB/mW, and should be easily driveable by a portable player. So what are the differences?
The RH-50 are Roland's second in price after RH-25. RH-25 are the cheapest model, with a suggested retail price of $25 ($50 for RH-50). RH-50 are fairly-priced basic closed monitor headphones. They really are semi-open, but there's so little of "open" in the design that "slightly ventilated closed" is a more precise description. Vents on an enclosure lead to a single hole covered with acoustic damping material. The hole acts as a "pressure valve", releasing extra tension from air within the enclosures. So there's no air escape route, though there is a weak sound emitter of sorts. For the purpose of sound leaking though it's as if they were fully closed - isolation's pretty good for inexpensive closed headphones.
Roland RH-50.
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