I'm finding difficulty in selecting one of these products and I thought you guys could help me better finding the best out of these four headphones .
Does more impedance mean less volume ?
Does the lower frequency range mean more bass ?
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As to impedance, take a look at Bill Griddle's answer: In essence: yes, higher impedance = lower volume. But higher volume is not necessarily better quality. Most professional headphones has a high impedance. Are you A DJ then low impedance is more important to be able to hear the cue at all when performing.
Not necessarily. It only means that the headphones are capable of reproducing the frequencies (and details) in this area - if they exist. Most commercial productions are mastered with a cut-off in the lower range between 50/60-80 Hz (depends of course) to allow more room for other frequencies as well as remove "muffle-ness". In the other end, a grown-up person's ears have typically had damages over the years and is not capable of hearing the highest frequencies above 15-16kHz - and most music rarely contain frequencies in this area or above (unless they want to torture the listener). But typically the frequency range says something about the general quality - the lower the the lowest frequency is and the higher the highest frequency is, the better range can re-produced with these headphones - it's a good thing But you can still have factors such as EQ bias towards a certain EQ color. The better the headphones are the more neutral EQ color it has IMO. Update: to identify if the headphones have a preferable bias, lets say you want them to re-produce bass louder, you can read the frequency response diagram. An example from this page:
Here you can see it increases the frequency at around 40-50 Hz, 1 kHz and at around 8 kHz as well as 11 kHz. This means you will probably experience more bass and treble with these headphones then there is in the original track. Without a diagram like this the only way to find out is to have them on the head. In the end it is coming down to personal preference - if they sound good to you with the sound/music you listen to, there is nothing wrong of picking them. Personally I ended up with Beyerdynamic DT990. AKG was always a favorite as well as Sennheiser. |
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