are welcome.Billboard Buys: Get This Polk Soundbar and Subwoofer Combo for $199 Without EQ, it is acceptable but nothing I would rave about.Īs always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. Needless to say, I highly recommend the Sony MDR-ZX110 headphone. If you don't fall off your chair with excitement and get your pants wet with drool, I will come over and cancel out your audiophile credentials myself! If you are not into headphones but want to know what the fuss is about for no money, buy this $9 headphone and put in my EQ. For zero cost you can transform a $9 headphone to a reference quality reproduction engine and you still don't want to go there? If so, I have nothing for you! Actually, I don't even want to know you! You are wasting away your audiophile life without it. What's that? You don't use EQ? Well, I don't want to hear. But try it: it costs the same as a fast food meal. But EQ this headphone and it produces reference quality sound! Yes, I know there will be riots in streets over this statement. Without equalization, it may be better than other junk headphones but otherwise, nothing I would use or recommend. When I picked up this headphone randomly to test last night, I did not have high hopes for it at all. This thing sounded so good and was so comfortable that I kept listening to it last night and still doing it this morning! Here are a couple of example tracks that make your jaw drop with this headphone and EQ: Mercedes Sosa - Misa Criolla (track: Kyrie) While you don't have a huge soundstage, the instrument separation is quite good and satisfying.
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Maybe the drivers sit an angle and provide for better results there. I was most impressed with detail, clarity and spatial effects. It certainly beats out majority of speakers out there. The result was an extremely accurate and audiophile headphone! If I performed a blind test, I am pretty sure many people would think this is a high-end headphone. I must say, I was not prepared for the transformation that these four filters made. The three other peaking filters were as the frequency response instructed (eyeballed by me and optimized by ear). In vast amount of music however, this bass enhancement was needed to balance the overall spectrum and benefits far outweighed the negatives. Without it, the distortion was not very audible but then again the notes where not that present either. I went conservative with sub-bass enhancement as even with this amount, any track with that kind of content produced distorted notes. Figuring this was a good omen, I ran with it: I played around for a good while and right before giving up, I landed on one placement where both channels locked on top of each other. Even with that help, I was getting measurements of each cup that was 4 to 5 dB different from each other and skewed in time (different path length to the microphone). The flexible artificial ear on my Gras fixture was a big help in getting something close to how a human would wear it, compressing under the load. So while I like to see them do well in these reviews, I have no attachment to the company or its products. Note 2: I worked for Sony back in 1990s for good number of years. In addition, comparison of measurements between different people doing it using different configurations requires fair bit of skill. Headphone measurements require more interpretation than speaker tests and have more of a requirement for subjective testing as a result. Note 1: The measurements you are about to see are preformed using standardized GRAS 45CA headphone measurement fixture. Naturally this is an on-ear headphone which should make it "fun" to measure. This obviously will different depending on your ears. There is a bit of sound isolation which was enough to get rid some of the high-pitch whine from my PC's fan. It is certainly more comfortable than much larger headphones. After just a few minutes you forget about it. Due to very low eight (about 4 ounces) and rather soft pads, I found the MDR-ZX110 quite comfortable to wear.
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