Comment by asdff

2 days ago

>There is no such thing as over the ear monitoring

Uhh, what? You go into any recording studio its is probably going to have a set of mdrv6 or mdr7506. Most of what you listen to are probably mixed and mastered with these same cans and its been that way with these same cans for like 4 decades now.

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Demiurge  2 days ago

You're wrong. Here is the ranking based on aggregate sales to studios:

1. Audio-Technica ATH-M50x 2. Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 3. Sony MDR-7506 4. Sennheiser HD 600 / 650

These are used in different situations. Most of the time headphones are used for tracking, which is listening to the live recording of one track. What most people call "monitoring", which is listening to the studio mix, is done on speakers, not headphones. Furthermore, items 1-3 represent quite distorted and inaccurate sound signatures, and people only buy these because it's their reference headphone, something they're used to. They're not actually the best sounding or accurate headphones, like say >1k Focals.

Most of the music is absolutely, definitely, is not mixed and mastered on headphones, let alone Sonys. Any decent mix requires speaker monitors for proper soundstaging. Mixes done without speakers sound quite wrong. This has been true since stereo recordings existed.

I'm sorry, but you're regurgitating cliches, and probably don't have deep knowledge of this subject.

You should get some Airpod Pros, you might like them.

  • asdff  1 day ago

    >I'm sorry, but you're regurgitating cliches, and probably don't have deep knowledge of this subject.

    >You should get some Airpod Pros, you might like them.

    Talk about some nominative determinism between your prickish take and your HN username.