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Can a $10 headphone sound better than a $700 or $3000 one? (Patreon)

Published:
2021-04-14 07:38:54
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2021-04-14 08:23:35
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This will cause lots of buzz and hate on Youtube I am pretty sure.

I will publish it later tonight.

First I would like to let you listen "blind" and reveal all 3 headphones in the follow up video also posting my EQs for the Sony for you to try them out as well. 

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Can a $10 Sony MDR-ZX110 sound better than a $700 or $3000 one?

Meze Emyprean: https://bit.ly/2Q5AOMi Focal Elex: https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-focal-elex-headphones?utm_source=linkshare&referer=EV47GD Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/oluvsgadgets Music by Soulpersona & Princess Freesia: https://soulpersona.bandcamp.com/album/fast-forward-deluxe-edition

Comments

Eoghan

Headphone C sounded the most different from A and B

Gary Ong

Yeah C sounded the worst to me. While A sounded the best. Listening this through samsung akg in ears though.

Gary Ong

You might want to post these on youtube though might become viral haha

Gary Ong

Because i dont own it haha. May be you can shuffle the music and blind test yourself too

Daniel

A - Focal Elex B - Sony MDR-ZX110 C - Meze Emyprean Listened over HD58x with Oratoty1990 Eq, B sounded most similar to the original to me.

yossibm

A - most natural and similar to source. B - too boosted treble, cymbals sounds annoying (also slightly too boomy). C - horrible v-shape.

oluvsgadgets

I don’t need to shuffle as it can distinguish them well

oluvsgadgets

do you have an Equalizer APO profile for Oratory's EQ?

Daniel

Yeah I converted the suggested Eq settings from the pdf files of his measurements from Reddit with Peace: https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/wiki/index/list_of_presets I´m currently using the Preset for the 6 band Parametric Eq which is also not completely neutral since it is Harman-based, but I prefer it over the Sonarworks profile for the HD58x (I think the perfect setting would be somewhere between both)

Marioragcurtain

A=sony (most natural) B=Elex (slightly too boomy and mids lacking a little bit) C=Emperyean (midbass bump and boosted treble) Listening with earfun free pro oe.

Nuno Borges

A- Focal B- Meze C- Sony

Juraj Vaculik

My guess: A-Sony, B-Focal, C-Meze or A-Focal and B-Sony Listening with 560s with Oluv`s EQ Would be easier to guess with some acoustic music than this track in my opition..

joão soares

Hi Oluv, there will be a prize for the best EQ?

oluvsgadgets

That’s a miss belief, acoustic music contains little above 3khz. Up to 3khz they sound nearly the same

oluvsgadgets

Could you please paste your settings here so that I can try them out on my 59X. I just tried Oratory’s EQ for the HD600 once and it sounded way off

Juraj Vaculik

I usually use track Ain't We Got Fun · Alexis Cole for the first impressions of new headphones, because I can judge soundstage that is important for me. I thought it is easier also for judging tonality, because I know how it should sound.. With disco tracks i am not so sure. But i could be wrong.. Very interesting experiment anyway :) I wonder which one was 3000 € headphone.

oluvsgadgets

There was no best, they all sounded really bad.

Kunaal

Don't just upload to YouTube. Our boy Sean Olive should be delivered a CD of this video to his doorstep.

Kunaal

Don't know about acoustic music but a song with instruments whose output frequency bandwidth spans across a wide range of frequencies helps identify gradients(peaks and troughs) in the frequency response. If that doesn't exist in the song then you can't make out whether there are issues like say a sudden sharp trough in treble like or nasal vocals or a muffled response. Acoustic stuff makes a speaker sound great instead of revealing it's weakness.

Jörg Bornefeld

A, B, C. A hört sich für mich am besten an, C ist viel zu höhenbetont und zu dünn in den Mitten und B verfärbt etwas in den oberen Mitten / unteren Höhen. Also A würde ich nehmen, denke ich.

Jörg Bornefeld

Also müsste A der Elex sein, B der Sony und C der 3000 Euro Premium Kopfhörer von Meze.

Dominik S

A- Elex B- MDR-ZX110 C- Empyrean

Aser Sánchez Huerga

A- Sony B- Elex C-Empyrean In my experience, there is hardly any relationship between the price of a headset and its sound quality. This depends almost entirely on the frequency response. There are several target curves, and then there is personal taste, so a expensive (or cheap) headset may or may not come close to your ideal sound. And if we talk about a flat response, studio headphones, some very cheap, are the ones that most often approximate this curve. So regardless of the price of a headphone, equalizing it always makes sense. An expensive headphone may offer a better sound scene, maybe ... other parameters such as timbre, dynamics or a fast response, ... well, some say that they are also included within the frequency response. The Empyrean offers top build quality, and luxury. I do think they have a strong sonic signature, even after equalizing (I use the crinacle parametric proposal), which is a very detailed sound but at the same time soft and warm. I have other headphones, expensive and cheap, and equalizing to the same curve, they all sound similar, a little different, but not better or worse, different.

Michał

my guess is: A- focal, B- meze, C- Sony

Nuno Borges

This is interesting, because I have a pair of these Sony headphones (bought them for my daughter to use in her Zoom classes... pink colour!). I wonder what equalizer you use that has 30 bands! Do you use it in the Mac computer?

Chris Pingel

If C was the Meze, I'd be very disappointed.

Nuno Borges

Can you run it in a Mac?

Nuno Borges

Very true. Right now, the Hosting AU is not able to be installed in the current OS version. Thanks, anyway!

yossibm

Oluv, what about Eq-ing "interesting" headphones, such as DT770? Oratory's eq is not bad but it kills their wide sound stage, which is the main reason to use them anyways. I think you can do better because the earfun OE has such an open/wide sounding even so it's in-ear.

Nuno Borges

It's a kind of leap of faith, but you can override it, yes! Thanks

oluvsgadgets

The DT770 doesn’t need eq when used properly and if the ports are filled with some foam.

Tamás Major

Hi Oluv, do you have any info about the production and shipping the second group of your Earfun TWS earbuds?

Kai Kuklok

I enjoyed B the most, and C was the worst in my opinion. Will be interesting to see, which is which.

bodi

In my opinion A was the closest to the original recording, which for my taste is a bit to boomy, for I don’t really like the sound of the bassdrum in that Song at all. I am a drummer and so I sure have my personal taste how drums should sound, always depending on the music and the whole production. Listening with my Earfun Pro OE. C is the worst sounding, I think A is Focal, B is Sony with your tuning and C is the Meze (hard to believe, if that is right)

Alex

C sounds best to me B is the worst

oluvsgadgets

C best? I wonder which headphone you use for listening?

Ofer Neiman

After listening to the introductory Meze clip, I think A is Meze, B is Elex, C is Sony. C sounds pretty bad. A and B sound pretty good.

Alex

Sennheiser hd58x

Alex

I've listened a couple more times and noticed that c is way too boomy and the treble is harsh. I think that A is the best now

Stanislav Baranec

I think there is a fundamental problem trying to tune $10 headphones, which is (in my opinion) also partly the reason why all those people's equalizer settings sound so distinct (and mostly bad) .... the reason is, with such a cheap diaphragm drivers and probably no quality control, the sound signature (if I may even use such word in this case, haha) of each particular unit probably varies quite dramatically, so they all measure very different :)

Chris Pingel

Yes, treble is harsh and not resolving at all.

Hubert

Hi Olaf, when do you want to provide the "Solving" (A is.. B is,.. C is ..) or did I miss anything currently? I'm really looking forward who is the 10$ stuff - best regards