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
The DT880s are more accurate and made for mix mastering engineers. They sound like nearfield monitors. This is the home version.
These stand alonside such headphones as the Sennheiser HD 580, 600, 650, AKG 701s, the better Audeze, and the better HiFi Mans 400) as being the most accurate headphones in the world. These are the home versions. I've been waiting for them to come up, but I just don't have the money right now. If I did, I'd plunk my money down. I'd probably never need to buy a pair of home headphones again.
Anybody who can afford these should buy a pair. They should be part of Massdrops's permanent, or perpetual, collection.
Go to: https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/param6.php?idhp2=796
This is a Russian measurement site but it offers translation to English. You can compare different headphones. Their method of measurement is slightly different. They put the microphone at the entrance to the ear canal for headphones, so the boost and notch in the treble is a little bit different. But it's all relative.
Notice how smooth the DT 880s are in the midrange and bass. Nearly perfect. You can compare them them to the 650s and HE-400s.
The earphone measurements are about right because they use a different method--a simulated ear canal. Look at the Advanced Sound M4. That practically matches what Advanced Sound has on its website. And a good pair of earphones too.
1. Comfort 2. Casual listening of all genres of music and podcasts 3. Music production 4. Resale value 5. Noise cancellation 6. Sound leakage 7. If you were stuck on a desert island forever with the best Amp/DAC in the world you would choose
From best to worst.
Go!
Beyer DT 880 first. Sennheiser second. HiFiMan 4xx third.
Go to: https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/param6.php?idhp2=796
This is a Russian measurement site but it offers translation to English You can compare different headphones. Their method of measurement is slightly different. They put the microphone at the entrance to the ear canal for headphones, so the boost and notch in the treble is a little bit different. But it's all relative.
Notice how smooth the DT 880s are in the midrange and bass. Nearly perfect. You can compare them them to the 650s and HE-400s.
The earphone measurements are about right because they use a different method--a simulated ear canal. Look at the Advanced Sound M4. That practically matches what Advanced Sound has on its website. And a good pair of earphones too.
My statement that the 'DT880 are very bright headphones and do not sound like near-field monitors' is factual. Just look at frequency response graph that shows a wide treble peak starting at 5 kHz:
https://www.innerfidelity.com/images/BeyerdynamicDT880250ohm.pdf