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TheFrator t1_j1apri8 wrote

Reply to comment by No-Context5479 in criteria by lightning696969

I would love to somehow blind test headphones. I'm not a dogmatic person and would love to eat crow and save some money by selling the LCD-5 and just chilling with HD660. But there's things it does that the 660 can't (at least sighted).

The downfall of headphone blind testing is that you would feel the pads. And I'd be able to know which brand is which by the pads haha (Hifiman is egg shaped, Sennheiser is oval, DCA is "D" shaped, Beyer is circular, and Audeze is rectangular with lots of cushion).

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No-Context5479 t1_j1atkev wrote

What if to make it more difficult to use pads to distinguish... You're kept blindfolded for 3 minutes tops and then you start the listening all in a vacuum of stillness... You may notice one or two but it will be more difficult to try looking out for what headphone it is

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TheFrator t1_j1au9gt wrote

Wouldn't you still feel the pads around your ear?

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No-Context5479 t1_j1aufjn wrote

That is always a possibility but it's less recognisable imo

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Rogue-Architect t1_j1cnpyi wrote

The other issue I see is tonality. It is pretty easy to tell my LCD-5 and 6XX apart just based off of their tuning. You could try EQing both to some target to try to minimize which would be interesting with the other blind folded stuff. Just would have to make sure all headphones could take the EQ because a 6XX just can’t handle sub bass as well so definitely a roll off like the 6XX has naturally.

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