Making it less solid can't possible improve the sound, if you do hear an improvement, then it's just placebo because you want to hear an improvement.

The diaphragm of the driver vibrates in a very precise way, and in order to do that, the structure it's attached to has to be as solid as possible. Removing that can only hurt the sound and in the long run reduce the reliability of the headphone because now the only thing holding the magnet in place is a little bit of glue. It's a very important structural element that makes the entire driver assembly stiffer, keeps the magnet securely in it's place and enables the dampening foam to be secured above the hole and give the driver an optimal amount of airflow on top of that. It's pretty obvious what that is, if you have any common sense that is. You may prefer one over the other, but that's about it.I can't believe some people are removing that 'plastic spider'. In audio, in a bedroom production setting, it doesn't make a huge difference whether you listen to your monitoring as it sounds out of the box, or with some EQ curve applied to it. But that's a context where it makes sense to standardize everything: So that you can move from display to display without having to worry about different color balances being a thing. That's not because the makers don't care about color balance, that's just the nature of making different products with different components and materials: you get different results.Įven within a same graphic design studio, people need to calibrate their color balance despite everyone using the exact same brand and model of display. All displays, professional or not have slightly different color balances. Imagine if instead of audio monitoring, it was displays. What Sonarworks is trying to do is kind of 'standardize' all headphones/speakers. All the sounds we hear are shaped by imperfect acoustics. And far more importantly, we don't listen to anything ever on perfect flatness, not even in the natural world. No headphones or speakers can produce a perfectly flat curve. In cases like the Beyerdynamics DT 770 or the Sony MDR-7056, they are indeed made to highlight certain parts because their original intent was for studio tracking.īut 'flat' is a myth.

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