I tried this with the hifiman Arya. I moved my hands slowly towards the grills while wearing them until they covered them completely. Soundstage took a HUGE HIT. The songs no longer sounded open or airy. Very claustrophobic.

Fantastic... Now enjoy some music

Sennheiser PC38X, you’re welcome

it looks gorgeous

Epos H6 Pro (closeback or Openback), Sennheiser PC38X, beyerdynamics mmx 300/150, audio Technica ath-gl3, audio Technica ath-gdl3

it is not tuned basically identically to the chu. sure it has a pretty similar gain and body, but the difference in the treble response will sound very different.

have you tought about trying iem's? after i got my fiios all of these problems disaperd :D

it will loose every single soundstage they have etc

The way that air can freely move around the back of the driver actively contributes to the sound of the headphone. Remember that any speaker moves backwards and forwards - hence sound comes off both sides of it. So a closed back headphone design has to consider how the sound coming off the back of the driver contributes to what the listener hears. Its much less of a concern for open backs.

As somebody else said - experiment by placing your hands over the back of your open back headphones and hear the sound change. Also move them away slowly and hear the sound change gradually back to normal.

How would that increase volume?

Seems like its from your source, using a dongle dac like cx-pro cx31993 fixed the problem for me.

Holy crap, this is a lot! Covers everything I was asking about and more, I'll have to give these links a looksie thank you so much!

And yeah, I guess that also explains why the buzzing seemed to get worse when I ran an intensive game, and why navigating menus that lowered CPU/GPU intensity lowered the buzzing. Interesting.

Again this is all great info and thanks so much for the response and work you put into it, thank you!

I learned the hard way about steel series being bad, I've always found turtlebeach to be a fairly decent kind of headset and I've always thought that Epos, beyerdynamics and what not were only for straight headphones without mics so I'll try investing into some of those whenever I get the chance, do you have any recommendations for a good, durable headset for console gaming?

A lot of the real headphones sadly are just headphones, which us good don't get me wrong but what I'm needing until I get my PC built are headsets with microphones attached for console gaming

It's on the front, by my power button. I'd need a longer cable to plug it into the back at all, but I do wonder if that would fix the problem as I suspect theres something funky with my front connectors

I would love a pair like dt770 but sadly like I said I'm mainly using these headsets for console gaming right now so without a microphone attached to them I can't talk to anyone online, I will be picking up a pair of them however whenever I get my PC built

I would get better headsets but I just don't know much about other brands other than the main ones, plus I had €50 off some in gamestop so I just bought another pair for the time being

I accidentally put the wrong system on there. I have a bassx ta1.

I already own it for 2 months, but the image has made when I only received it from the postal service. I bought B-stock for 399$ + 80$ import taxes and shipping, it's the first DAC/amp that I have bought new and not used, which means that I will lose much value if I decide to sell, but I was ready for this because you can't sell end game material. I'm in this hobby for 1.5 years, I had iFi Zen Dac -> Topping dx3pro -> Asgard3 + Modius -> Mojo, and now JDS Labs Element III

For whom can it be? I wanted small(because my desktop table is rather small), beautiful, with a BIG KNOB, powerful amplifier. It is a bit expensive, but you can find older elements for 250$ and 150$ respectively

After reading a million reviews, with different POV, after testing without volume matching and not blindly my different DAC/amps vs apple dongle and between each other, I understood that I don't hear enough differences with multiple DAC/amps, without proper testing I can't objectively say who is better, so I decided to lean more on the practical side, I can spend more time with headphones and on my life instead of testing DAC/amps, so I have gone for a beautiful minimalistic design and HUGEEE volume knob for excellent comfort and enough power for most headphones on the market, that's all that I want from my chain

I love my Element to death and don't plan to buy anything else for desktop use until it will break, then without spending time on any reviews would buy the next Element iteration which would be called something like 'Element X'.

Edit:I don't know why my image after uploading got skewed to the left, can't fix this

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IEM is very sensitive so it is easy to detect any noise.
Changing cases won't help because that's not where it's coming from.
Some expensive DAC has it too, but it's only noticeable on some sensitive headphones.
A quicker option is a impedance plug/adapter.
About 30 ohms or so is enough. It basically makes your headphones less sensitive.

Those sure are some of the graphs of all time.

Yeah bro, you just named the 3 shittiest brands. It's not your head. It's the quality of the headsets. Time for real headphones.

There are perhaps dozens of chifi IEMs released every month. Just don't pay them any mind.

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