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Well built headphones with harsh sound out of the box
The Beyerdynamic 1990pro is one of Beyerdynamic's flagships in their reference headphone line-up. The headphone is built really well, comprising mostly out of sturdy and smooth metal. While they're a bit on the heavy side, they feel relatively comfortable and won't fall off your head. They also remain comfortable for longer sessions.
The headphones come in a case with some extra accessories included, such as additional cables and earpads. The case itself is sturdy and great for when you want to transport the headphones without damaging them.
However, while this is all great and well, the only thing that is lackluster is the sound of these cans. While these semi-open back headphones provide a great amount of detail and have a nice stereo soundstage, the frequency response is bright to say the least. frequencies from 6 to 10 KHz are ear piercingly loud, resulting in discomfort when listing to music with a lot of high end frequency content. I understand that this is the 'Beyerdynamic sound', but it renders these reference headphones pretty useless for evaluating sound out of the box. I've compensated for this lackluster frequency response by enabling an EQ APO on the driver level that compensated for this. Luckily there are plenty of well measured frequency response graphs out there for these cans, so flattening out the frequency response is not guess-work. Nevertheless, I don't think you would want the hassle of driver-level EQs when you dish out the money for a high end pair of cans like these.
The headphones come in a case with some extra accessories included, such as additional cables and earpads. The case itself is sturdy and great for when you want to transport the headphones without damaging them.
However, while this is all great and well, the only thing that is lackluster is the sound of these cans. While these semi-open back headphones provide a great amount of detail and have a nice stereo soundstage, the frequency response is bright to say the least. frequencies from 6 to 10 KHz are ear piercingly loud, resulting in discomfort when listing to music with a lot of high end frequency content. I understand that this is the 'Beyerdynamic sound', but it renders these reference headphones pretty useless for evaluating sound out of the box. I've compensated for this lackluster frequency response by enabling an EQ APO on the driver level that compensated for this. Luckily there are plenty of well measured frequency response graphs out there for these cans, so flattening out the frequency response is not guess-work. Nevertheless, I don't think you would want the hassle of driver-level EQs when you dish out the money for a high end pair of cans like these.
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