Yeah, some people take the risk. Their streams crap out often though. they rely on the chat telling them that something is not right. There are also some that have a second person handling this and other stuff like chat moderation. They also often look at the controls to see if everything is OK.

They need to be checking constantly if the audio is on and if the levels are OK. They often push a mute button when their mom calls and then forget that they're muted, so instead of making a silent stream, they can hear their voice missing and fix it. They're live mixing stuff like music, game sound, their own voice and other sound effects, so they need to make sure that they're all at the right volume.

Basically headphones are the same thing like looking at the screen. That's why we call them monitors. You can't use speakers for that because the microphone picks them and it makes feedback.

If you want to stream but don't want to have big headphones, you can still use in ear monitors like musicians do on stage.

Go to Aliexpress and search 40mm headphone driver. You'll get so many options at different prices. There are differences.

They look like a telephone receiver.

T40rp don't isolate very well even though they're closed cans. Only a little more than T50rp. Stuff like DT770 isolates better.

Check out Custom Cans on youtube. They have a video about tuning. There's also a thread on Head-fi

Pads get you 90% there, but they need to be the right ones. SRH840 earpads work for me.

To me it's more like these things are unrelated. The guy likes the sound, but it's not how they were designed. You get more bass and it changes the image, but that's a different tuning.

HD560s is not very high-ohmic. It's in the middle. It's definitely not designed for high impedance outputs. 120 ohm or (whatever it has) is around the output of many of those headphone outs. Also the HD500 line has been 50ohm since I remember.

Portable amps with automatic gain read HD560s as a low impedance load.

With Americans it's a difficult topic, but many people around the world get their great deals by repairing broken equipment. I got some killer cans this way. With my starving student money I wouldn't even afford the stuff that's considered budget here.

>And do not even get me started on [...] Focal and Fostex.

Never heard of it. What's up with them?

>Shure SE 215 will last forever. ;)

This is the worst par of it.

Nothing wrong with it and it's alright at this price. HD560s are a bit more expensive. It's the same headphone but tuned better. HD599 benefit from EQ. There is an autoEQ profile for them in Equaliser Apo that extends the lows and highs.

Good to know. I was about to buy a pair. That explains why they're so cheap used.

I'm not sure, but it looks like this headphone uses the same or at least similar driver to K518 DJ, which would make sense because it's not precise with bass. That headphone sounds warmer than you'd assume from the graph.

That said Sonys should be quite a bit bassier. K361s only bloat in the subbass (if your pair is normal). They famously lack clarity and detail, but bass should not be terrible. Maybe EQ the subbass out and see if that helps.

I think we can all agree that Vido is cheap.

>Beyerdynamic DT990 or Hifiman HE400SE (or HE 4XX) or Sennheiser HD560 They should all be like $100-150 or so.

I think this is a great starting point, because this is the first price bracket where headphones feel special. They check boxes and give you some extra. For many people this is all the sound quality they'll ever need or want and if they are curious, they can still upgrade to more accurate cans.

Stax 4070

What a majestic crossover episode it must have been! Is there a Harman target for thock already?

They are all-purpose headphones. Jack of all trades... Very practical.

>TH610, EMU Teak

These are semi-open. The vent is a slit running along the edge of the earpad.

I don't know, but it doesn't matter that much. You get a Koss anyway and then you swap parts in it until it's a different headphone. It's like Lego. The parts are interchangeable. If you go to r/headphonemods and scroll a little, you'll see people's builds.

We regularly have keyboard people here for some reason. I watched one episode of headphone podcast and like one third of it was about keyboards. Have you got your Koss headphones yet?

We recommed EQ Apo with AutoEQ for everyone so that they can try Harman target, which sounds like good pair of speakers.

We recommend gamers to ditch their gaming headphones and get audiophile headphones with a V-moda microphone.

We get our expensive audiophile headphones from bin stores for $8 thanks to our wives.

I don't have space. I wish I had, because I like building speakers.

But if you want the best sound, then maybe speakers simulated on a headphone would be it, I think.

Besides speakers aren't really better than headphones until you get to really big stuff, like 10" and at that point, luxurious headphones are way cheaper.

Oh no, the game is still on.

Yeah, it's annoying, but that's how it works.