[Ty Ford]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 19:53:28 -0400, Nate Najar wrote
(in article
):

On May 9, 5:50*pm, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"Ty Ford" wrote in message

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On Fri, 6 May 2011 11:59:54 -0400, Nate Najar wrote
(in article
):

I have a pair of sony mdr7506 and they
sound terrible.

Nate,

Please define terrible?

Rough high end, mid-bass accentuation, no real deep bass. Poor isolation.

bingo.....

they're very thin, harsh and distorted. not fuzzy distorted, just
nasty sounding. I want something full, clear and clean. and good
isolation would be very useful so what's in the headphones doesn't
bleed into tracking microphones. and preferably I could use the same
headphone for setting up stereo location recording. but if there's no
one size fits all, I'll get two different ones.

but that's what I'm looking for.

N

That's majorly inconsistant with my experience. The MDR7506 are smiley faced
EQed, but they are clean. If you're hearing distortion, it's probably what's
in the system. A lot of Chinese LD and SD mics have a lot of trash.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Frank Stearns]

Ty Ford writes:

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That's majorly inconsistant with my experience. The MDR7506 are smiley faced
EQed, but they are clean. If you're hearing distortion, it's probably what's
in the system. A lot of Chinese LD and SD mics have a lot of trash.

Ty's probably hit it on the head with these phones -- they will alert you to
distortion elsewhere in the system; they might even exaggerate such distortion if
they themselves are already at the threshold of audible distortion. Doesn't take
much more to make distortion clearly audible.

Though perhaps a nuisance in some settings, this could be a useful trait in others.

For years I've been running some higher-end end gear (Grace, Gefell, Neumann), so
system distorsion is pretty low. But before I tweaked the old Soundcraft in 2005-6,
I do seem to recall some nasty sound from those phones that "went away" as the
electronics got upgraded.

Frank
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[Trevor]

"Frank Stearns" wrote in message
acquisition...
Ty's probably hit it on the head with these phones -- they will alert you
to
distortion elsewhere in the system; they might even exaggerate such
distortion if
they themselves are already at the threshold of audible distortion.
Doesn't take
much more to make distortion clearly audible.

I'd prefer to know I've got a distortion problem I can fix, rather than a
distortion problem in the headphones that I can't fix though. Combining the
two simply makes the job harder IMO.

Trevor.