blackice

i bought the akg k66 from hung bros at $75 good deal?

anyone knows where i can get them? or what is the lowest prices u all have seen for these 2 phones? thanks

well u can say that its both true & not true at the same time...kind of hard to explain, when u are listening to your instrument, u are hearing the sound of that instrument, but when u listen to "music" its a different story when u listen to classical music or any type of music, what u are hearing is the final mix of the recording that has been mastered by the sound engineer, he would hav added all the "staging" or effects to the mix, echos, reverb, chorus all these stuff to color the music, make it sound "polished" or "tailored". without all these the CD will sound like a Demo disc, raw & unrefine. in order to bring out the sound that the engineer wants u to hear, u need a headphone that can reproduced the music with all of its polished details, thats when u need a pair of cans that has the range, able to place all the instruments on their respective locations on stage, when all of these come together, u would be able to tell that the guitar is infont of the drums or that the backing vocals are standing just left on the stage...and so on, get the picture? if u use this same headphone for your instrument, then what u are hearing is not the true sound of that instrument, so if you are doing recordings, this may giv u problems, as u don't hav a breakdown of what your instruments sound like, cause these phones are usually not forward enough, everything will sound like they are in the background, or far away from u, in the final mix. so it all comes down to what u want to do with the sound u get from your instrument, but i think if u play an instrument, then most likely u will want it to sound un-colored & upfront hope this can giv u clearer picture of the difference between a headphone for instrument & a headphone for music This is not true for all types of music. Classical music is typically recorded with as little as 2 microphones. You get the natural soundstage from such a setup. The 2 microphones pickup the natural spatial relationships of all the instruments in the orchestra/ensemble. This unlike pop/rock where each instrument is individually miked, and the soundstage "created" by the sound engineer. Pop/rock recordings also tend to use multitrack/multilayer recording where each instrument can be recorded invidually of each other, at different times (if so desired). Thus the soundstage of recordings made in this way is "fake" and not natural. For mixing/listening to instruments, most people would prefer to use a neutral-sounding 'phones so everything will sound "accurate". These will tend to have flat frequency response, without any bass/treble boosts. For general listening of music, most people tend not to mind some colourations to the sound (e.g. like enhanced bass). Regards CK thanks guy. so what would u personally recommend? would monitoring phones like the Senn hd25sp be good? or would the akg 66, philips 890 be suitable as well. i welcome any more suggestions.

anyway, how much is teh AKG K 66? is the bass response good? not loose and muddy?

well u can say that its both true & not true at the same time...kind of hard to explain, when u are listening to your instrument, u are hearing the sound of that instrument, but when u listen to "music" its a different story when u listen to classical music or any type of music, what u are hearing is the final mix of the recording that has been mastered by the sound engineer, he would hav added all the "staging" or effects to the mix, echos, reverb, chorus all these stuff to color the music, make it sound "polished" or "tailored". without all these the CD will sound like a Demo disc, raw & unrefine. in order to bring out the sound that the engineer wants u to hear, u need a headphone that can reproduced the music with all of its polished details, thats when u need a pair of cans that has the range, able to place all the instruments on their respective locations on stage, when all of these come together, u would be able to tell that the guitar is infont of the drums or that the backing vocals are standing just left on the stage...and so on, get the picture? if u use this same headphone for your instrument, then what u are hearing is not the true sound of that instrument, so if you are doing recordings, this may giv u problems, as u don't hav a breakdown of what your instruments sound like, cause these phones are usually not forward enough, everything will sound like they are in the background, or far away from u, in the final mix. so it all comes down to what u want to do with the sound u get from your instrument, but i think if u play an instrument, then most likely u will want it to sound un-colored & upfront hope this can giv u clearer picture of the difference between a headphone for instrument & a headphone for music thanks guys for your help. jasonhan: thanks for your kind offer. but i've got church today. =) and right now im serving NS, so its like i come home very late. haha

hah $500?? mad? Lol....no way. i dont believe in spending so much on headphones.

ah okok i understand. btu shouldnt headphones for instruments like piano be simlilar in type to headphones for classical music?

hmm....u guys are not keen on the idea of me getting a HP890 huh?

how bout the new mitsubishi starmax?? im using sanyos now....quite noisy.....

hi, im just starting out on the piano, gettin a digital piano the yamaha P120S. i want to play silently without disturbing neighbours and will be getting a pair of headphones for this purpose. i have no ideas as to what to get. btu im quite sure i dont want to spend much more than $100. luthermusic where im gonna get my piano from sells the AKG K44 for $65. is this good? from the posts here, the Philips 890 also seems to fit into my budget. any other recommendations? very important is the reproduction of highs and lows without sounding too muddy. sorry if im not making sense, im totally new to headphones and i dunno much abt terminology. thanks