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I literally can't finish this video can someone tell me the point

4 minutes in please get to the point 😩

Are you working at the NSA as your side job? How do you keep dropping videos about stuff I'm actively researching/thinking about

What do you think about Realphones plugin? They promise it can correct any headphones to sound flat. Would love to know your opinion.

sorry for the interruption , why not use the drop thx 789!

Now plug that sh&/ into an APOGEE Symphony ...and start crying ; )

ONLY A MASTERING ENGINEER WITH LITTLE KNOWLEDGE WILL DAILY USE A FABFILTER Q3 IN MASTERING..IF YOU'RE A PRO YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING..

I got caught slacking on my edit here. EQ in bypass on export. Sincerely sorry for this. It's tearing me up!

love the shirt

Check out Dan Clark's E3/Stealth/Expanse if you have the opportunity. Those are probably the only headphones that actually get reaaaally close to the Harman curve without the need to use an external EQ. And they are also incredibly comfortable. E3 also in the same price range as those Hedd's, but in terms of tech specs and how flat (by flat I mean compliance with Harman curve) they are, Dan Clark E3 are a head and shoulders above the Hedd's. :)

This is the reason I decided to purchase an RME ADI 2 PRO fs. I get the wonderful conversion as well as a powerful amp for my planar magnetics and all of the other features like eq, built in crossover, and etc....

Can you hear distortion in voice caused by voice assymetry and poor mastering in that track you mention? pointless.

Voice audio is terrible, so muddy & rumbly all i hear is "MMMMGNNNMGMMMMNMMNMNNN"

How does your mm500 compare to the hedd ? Did you mix on the mm500 as well?

Thanks so much Nicholas. I saw Pauls video about the Topping a few days ago and was wondering if it was worth it. I'm using the headphone amp in my Apollo X4 with the Mm-500s, which sounds pretty good to my ear. But was thinking about using the SPDIF out on it and routing it to a Topping. Decisions decisions....

I may be mistaken here, but speaker (or headphones in this case) sensitivity will play a big part in this too. How reactive to the mW's the driver of the headphones are. More mW isn't strictly better in every case ( at least as far as I understand), it's only better when using it to drive a lower sensativity pair of headphones. Just like driving high sensativity speakers from old low power tube amps are a good combo ( and exactly like how more modern lower sensativity speakers match up much better with high output SS power amps of the moden era), it's all about matching them up well that matters the most, and not the pure mW output level (because all that is is power output, like the amp wattage power output and your speakers rated power handling, and it all depends on if the speaker driver can convert it all into distortionless audio or not, providing you meet a decent threashold of what can drive the particular cans in question to begin with). Having too high mW will be the same as having a stupidly over powered amp for the set of speakers you've got, you go past 1 on the dial and your speakers are distorting. It's all about marrying the pair well. OFC once you're above the threashold of being able to drive the low end correctly at a decent level. Now there may be an overall slight benafit in having much higher mW output and less sensative drivers, or there might be a benafit in having higher sensativity drivers and less mW output power. I'm not really sure, and have a feeling I'll know by the end of the vid, but it's the impeedance (1:10 minimun output:input ratio and 1:50 is even better) and power to sensativity matching that is the most important factor in getting good sound out of your cans, providing you have good cans and a good clean amp and DAC to begin with. You just happen to have a pair that really need some ompf to get them going, I mean they are humongus for headphones - (well I've seen much bigger old broadcasting cans, but they are up there lol), which is ofc great for more effortless low end, especially as they are AMT :P. EDIT: you covered that they are power hungry near the end, I misunderstood your stance earlier on and thought you were saying more mW is better full stop, but you were specifically talking about for them cans. ;)

arent they like a billion grams on your neck? Curious if you midrange reaction was due to neumanns being usually slightly mid boosted without room correction

Bought a topping L50 for similar applications. Not quite up to the specs of the dx7 pro but it’s pretty damn good. Main reason I went with it over the others is it has a through for speakers that’s passive on a toggle switch so I can have headphones and amp OR direct out from my interface outs to speakers at a toggle when needed.

Was it dx7 pro+ you got? There is also the dx7 pro, I use the dx7 pro+ but the back of yours looks like the pro+. Definitely use it for the neumanns as well, it's the full package, speakers and headphones. And make sure you use the remote as well! Ed was doing my box in for like a year cause he was like yeah it's somewhere and guess what.. He found it and.. "awww mate this remote is awesome!" 🙈🤣 With the remote you can switch between all digital inputs (USB, optical, AES, coax, Bluetooth) and speaker outputs (XLR, RCA, XLR+RCA) Theres a button to switch from headphones to speakers, vice versa and even an option to output both at the same time. What's really handy is that it stores the level for phones and speakers independently so when you switch you don't need to adjust level. You can switch between 7 different anti aliasing filters (I reccomend the default) I also reccomend setting it as the master clock as well due to its near immeasurable jitter (if it's connected in an interface chain). I've got dx7 pro+ & sp8 (in live room) connected to evo 16 via it's 2 adat ports. So with the remote I can switch to adat input when I'm in the daw, switch to USB outside the daw and switch between whatever output i want. AND the Bluetooth is super high quality. This is really handy if I'm mixing in the daw with the evo 16 but I quickly want to switch to something in Spotify or apple music from my phone, or you could play from your desktop and switch to USB. And it automatically detects the sample rate when switching to whatever input. So in my rig I've normally got 2 headphones (4 pin xlr & TRS) and 2 pairs of speakers connected and I just switch between what I need. As you can see, I'm extremely attached to my dx7 pro+ 🤣

Paul Third has a video about this company, they have an even cheaper model. ua-cam.com/video/VZxTiH9D7u0/v-deo.html

The thing I learned early on in electronics is this: When you have an output being plugged into an input, you have to have a MINIMUM of 1:10 ratio between the output impedance and the input impedance. i.e. If my audio interface output impedance is 150 ohms balanced, then the input impedance of my speakeres should be 1.5kohm balanced impedance *absolute minimum.* Of course, most studio monitors are 20kohm input impedance which is another order of magnitude, so it's an even better match. When it comes to headphones, having a dedicated headphone preamp designed to have an extremely low impedance output will give you a better sound. The headphones won't be "pulling" at the output, capacitively or inductively, which would alter the frequency response and also prevent the drivers from being able to be driven to their proper position vs the output waveform (introducing distortion). Little story. When I was designing my passive volume control, I designed it with 1.9k constant input impedance in mind, with relative output impedance depending on where the volume is set. So my audio interface is 150ohm --> passive volume control 1.9kohm --> studio monitors 20kohm. This gave the most linear results due to the rough 1:10 ratio rule. If I chose a lower impedance, it would "pull" on the audio interface outputs. If I chose a higher impedance, it would become more of a voltage divider with the studio monitors, and the volume control would be inaccurate. Electronics can get complex, but there are some fundamentals that are so useful to know - impedance being one of them. Oh, and it works for microphones, too. You know when someone says _"This mic has 600ohm output impedance"_ and they set the input impedance of their preamp to 600 ohms... *Big no!* Impedance matching like that is only for the best power transfer, not the best for audio going from one device to another. Something to take into consideration (1:10 rule again!)

Are you just using the Topping as a headphone amp or are you actually running Your speakers off of it? I was planning on getting one but im not totally positive how the speaker outs work. Will it replace my monitor controller? I have optical running out of my interface into an old Presonus monitor station. I was hoping I could get rid of that and use the topping as my monitor controller. Would that works. ?

Be careful recommending Topping, all the audiophiles are going to start making up claims about them sounding unnatural due to negative feedback. That being said....yeah, they sound amazing. And it seems like we're on a similar trajectory, though not exactly the same gear. I've pretty much converted to all-ITB and not even using my speakers. They're very nice, but they don't tell me anything that my IEMs don't. The opposite is not even close to true. I'm 90% sure that wwitching to a sit-stand desk with IEMs is the future. My next room probably won't even have speakers.

which correction plugin do you use and do you have your individual curve loaded?

I told you.. L is for left and R is for right!

Online price is @$1100 AUD for the topping dx7- can't see $699 anywhere unless that's U.S?

this is crazy. i literally have dx7 in my basket for a month ever since i saw Paul Third's vid. i had no idea. I even purchased Topping DX1 for on the go solutions. i also am an AUdeze MM-500 user. i love my headphones but i feel i dont get the most out of them. i will sell apollo solo and get dx7. thank you.

Great Video! never really liked using headphones def notice this but didnt know what was actually going on but mm i wonder if this is why a lot of "Tracks" sound the way they do in certain "genres" since its preached that all you need is a "laptop and headphones"

I find it hard to watch your videos due to this horrendous sound quality.

it´s weird to see you from the front... just kidding. Great Video!

I went the same route separate Topping dac (d70 pro) and amp l30ii - useful for mobile use. With the Audeze LCD x it’s made mixing and as mastering reference tool fantastic. We are able to go as good as the big studios now in terms of gear without breaking the bank.

I bought a dangerous Dbox and the headphone outs on it completely blew me the hell away. it's like my headphones were finally telling me the truth, my third eye opened

I'm learning so much from this channel! Thank you.

Where is the loudness shirt from? That’s my jam

The singer is gay male?

Very helpful, but I definitely had to double click back 10 secs several times. 😂 Speaking so fast… Or am I just getting old

whered the time stamps go :o

I lied on my job application about being able to master, now that I have the job , this video has helped me a lot 👍🏻

Ah, the 'CD Coffee Coaster'. The perfect Christmas gift for every studio engineer in your life. :-)

yet the chain you built sounded better

Thanks! Love your work. The science to mixing is your advice. Keep it going. Where are you located by the way?

I have sent things back when they are distorted but otherwise, if that is what they send, then that is what I work. If I think there is a problem, I ask. If the client doesn't answer or is a dick, I bail. The reason that most should not have any attempt at mastering is because if that work is done badly, as is common with inexperienced people, it cannot be undone. Mastering is supposed to be preparing for pressing (to fit in the delivery tin) not solving a messy mix. BTW most of the "Rules" in Yoo Boob 10 Tipz n Trix lists and pedaled in groups etc are BS in the first place. :-)