CoolCat
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Headphone Mixing and Mastering ....the Pro's doing it today, while on the road and the modern day of laptops and audio interfaces, DAC Amps etc... its all good.
Bob Ludwig story was he asked Grace Design to build him a headphone amp, top notch for mixing or something. Also Skywalker Studios-Lucas had the same Grace amps and same headphones then given to all the engineers so they were all hearing the same thing.... ok the pro's have real work to do, they need all the tools.
HR,,,and the room.. The main reason I tried Headphones for Mix/Master Hobby... was just lazy, burn out and not wanting to setup yet another room and low needs ...so headphones were easy and cheaper. I dont have any GRAMMY recordings to work on anyway..lol
Closed Back HD280 for tracking and Open Back BD880 250ohm for Mix/Master. My stuff sounds amateurish either way Monitor+ Room or Heaphone+Amp.
A few interfaces put a little more thought into their headphone amps...I found my old UX8 headphone amp was so close to the GRace Design I didnt need it. The Line6UX8 was designed for 250-600 ohm and it takes any headphone...the FOCUSRITE Clarett supposedly touts this too, but Ive never heard one....
Most other interfaces I tried UX2, a couple Motu, Behringer,a few Focusrite I tried have low volume on higher impedance headphones. ...but work fine with 32~80 ish headphones.
Enter the new craze....and a odd 20ohm spec?
AUDEZE LCD-X seem to be a favorite but only have 18ohms~20ohms? So they work with a laptop amp or a common audio interface headphone amp as I read reviews.
Audeze only makes planar magnetic headphones. They differ from ordinary dynamic headphones by using a thin foil suspended between two magnets, where the foil vibrates with the electrical signal and produces sound. It is a kind of hybrid between dynamic drivers and electrostatic panels. Think a kind of electrostatic panel that doesn’t need external power to be activated; the electrical music signal is enough.-TechnReviewz
$1800 $1200// for the original LCD-X makes rooms and monitors look cheap? Used $750?
will my monitors wind up sitting unplugged next to my old hifi stuff...gathering dust? looks like a yes for me.
Bob Ludwig story was he asked Grace Design to build him a headphone amp, top notch for mixing or something. Also Skywalker Studios-Lucas had the same Grace amps and same headphones then given to all the engineers so they were all hearing the same thing.... ok the pro's have real work to do, they need all the tools.
HR,,,and the room.. The main reason I tried Headphones for Mix/Master Hobby... was just lazy, burn out and not wanting to setup yet another room and low needs ...so headphones were easy and cheaper. I dont have any GRAMMY recordings to work on anyway..lol
Closed Back HD280 for tracking and Open Back BD880 250ohm for Mix/Master. My stuff sounds amateurish either way Monitor+ Room or Heaphone+Amp.
A few interfaces put a little more thought into their headphone amps...I found my old UX8 headphone amp was so close to the GRace Design I didnt need it. The Line6UX8 was designed for 250-600 ohm and it takes any headphone...the FOCUSRITE Clarett supposedly touts this too, but Ive never heard one....
Most other interfaces I tried UX2, a couple Motu, Behringer,a few Focusrite I tried have low volume on higher impedance headphones. ...but work fine with 32~80 ish headphones.
Enter the new craze....and a odd 20ohm spec?
AUDEZE LCD-X seem to be a favorite but only have 18ohms~20ohms? So they work with a laptop amp or a common audio interface headphone amp as I read reviews.
Audeze only makes planar magnetic headphones. They differ from ordinary dynamic headphones by using a thin foil suspended between two magnets, where the foil vibrates with the electrical signal and produces sound. It is a kind of hybrid between dynamic drivers and electrostatic panels. Think a kind of electrostatic panel that doesn’t need external power to be activated; the electrical music signal is enough.-TechnReviewz
$1800 $1200// for the original LCD-X makes rooms and monitors look cheap? Used $750?
will my monitors wind up sitting unplugged next to my old hifi stuff...gathering dust? looks like a yes for me.