It’s a form of survivorship bias, if you want to be a rich successful musician, you have to have the tools of a rich, successful musician who certainly did not learn on anything so fine!
Plenty of professional mixing engineers use headphones, while monitors can be great, and sure if I could afford a properly professionally deadened studio, I’d love it.
But why place roadblocks in any of our way?
My favorite artists didn’t use everything I have, and if I want professional mixing, I will pay a professional mixer or get stems re-mixed
I appreciate all of the interesting and helpful replies! After some thinking, I’m going with some DT 770 because they seem like they may be more comfortable than the MDRs.
Absolutely I am guilty as charged with this! That was part of the point of my post - I recognize I’ve been lacking on this. I consider myself pretty far from an audiophile - I have good hearing and I love good sounding music, but I suppose I’m just not too “picky” with what I enjoy making or listening to. But that isn’t an excuse to use the cheapest headphones available. I’m working on correcting that now. I just make music for my own happiness, I rarely share it with others and I don’t pay much attention to mixing / mastering fundamentals. This is the first time I’ve had an issue like this, because I went far below the level of price which is reasonable to expect good quality even for my low standards.
“Good” is always relative. I’m not in a living situation where I can use speakers often. I do believe and appreciate the idea that for professional mixing, there is a point where speakers would give different results due to phase effects. Again, I’m not and likely never will be concerned with anything approaching professional mixing. But that’s not to say this information won’t be meaningful to others. As for my hearing, I get hearing tests done by an audiologist every year at my job and I’m certain my work is far more risky behavior to my ears than playing with music equipment at a reasonable volume for a few hours every week.
Everything you said seems spot on, and helpful. Thank you!
Sure, it’s a process unique to each individually.
You find tools best for you at some point.
I would say mid range gear for “bedroom” production now have amazing stuff to offer, from dacs, audio interfaces, headphones and speakers.
Definitely. DACs are just miles beyond what people used to have. We can all discuss what ideal fidelity is with the tools on hand, what we want is a nice preamp but what we need is a committed person in front of it.
I was very happy with these when I had them, I would still be using them if I hadn’t broken them with really distorted low frequency bass from my Model:Cycles . I do find stuff translates better on my NDH20, as you’d hope for several times more expensive, but the DT770 were great.
The frequency response seems to be flat in my opinion, the soundstage appears to be wide, to wide for my taste but overall good enough for me and my budget at the time
Ive just got a pair of Austrian Audio HIX65 and wow they are so detailed really surprised me… Possibly a bit low in bass (I don’t mind) but man midrange and highs are perfect…
Very comfortable Super nice to mix and good to listen on too.
Coming from DT990 and Sennhieser various pairs these are just better in My opinion.
. I do find stuff translates better on my NDH20, as you’d hope for several times more expensive, but the DT770 were great.
