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| Todd Welti, Sean Olive and Elisabeth McMullin are shown above with their custom binaural mannequin, "Sidney" wearing a pair of AKG K1000's. No fit or leakage issues with these headphones. |
In his story, Tyll summarizes three of our recent AES papers on headphones, the first one of which I already wrote about in this blog. I hope to write summaries of the other two papers in the upcoming weeks when I can find some free time.
Is the 3er headphone papper aveilable at AES
ReplyDeleteThe paper will be available after the conference in late August in the AES E-library:
Deletehttp://www.aes.org/e-lib/#advanced
Valentin
DeleteThe 3rd paper can be downloaded here:
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=16874
Do the K1000s still "honk like geese" the way they did 20 years ago?
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteis the new AKG K 712 a result of these listening tests? :-)
If you're somewhat familiar with the frequency plots, it's fairly obvious that #2 is the K 701/702 which, according to your way of interpreting the graphs has a frequency response that is tilted upwards towards the treble range.
Of course, with all the HRTF and "free field/diffuse field" issues, what constitutes "flat" in a headphone is a little up to debate...).
The K712 appears to have more bass and to address the "2 khz peak" that seems to offend some people (Headroom's frequency graphs: http://goo.gl/QkTqz3 - these are obviously "filtered" in a different way).
I don't really perceive the K702 as "bass light" but rather as "just right" (quite similar to the old K 240 DF). The K 240 M and S on the other hand have too much bass for my taste.
But then, I haven't done any blind listening tests with headphones yet...
Keep up your very interesting work and keep posting about it!
Kind regards,
Stephan
Stephan
DeleteThanks for your comments.
I don't know if the K702 are a result of these tests. We only do the research -- not the product development.