Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
Since it's meant to be a reference / studio headphone, so the sound is pretty flat. Personally I'd prefer a little bit more emphasis on treble and bass, so I find the AKG K553 sound a bit boring for lack of better word.
For people who's on the same boat as me I'd suggest going for Philips L1/L2 instead. But for those that prefer neutral headphones these are great.
Most of the AKG line does this admirably and it's why I enjoy their headphones more than a lot of other well received brands. I would suggest looking into the AKG "Y" line of headphones if you want a little more emphasis on the lower end while still maintaining the characteristic neutrality of what AKG has typically attempted to achieve.
I'd imagine the neutral sound works better for other genre such as jazz or classical music. Though at least for the most part Philips L1/L2 are still consider as very "balanced" headphones tonally.
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Headphones are notorious for coloring the sound, particularly on the low end. (Getting accurate bass representation is a difficult thing at best.) When I read/hear about "bassheads" it makes me shudder. Perhaps it's more of a "DJ" thing than anything. DJ's are taking material put out by others and readjusting that original material. A headphone with exaggerated bass is just doing the same thing I guess. But that's independent of what's on the original source material, regardless of the genre.