all my headphones sound underwhelming now... (when used at home)

So, yeah. I've been living my with my Yggdrasil+Rggy + LS50s for a while(4 or so months).... and god damn, switching back to headphones

(hd800,hd800s, thx00,hd650) they all sound... just off. Hd800S's are my favorites but, still it just seems "lacking" to me now

I find the only time I am able to enjoy headphones now is on the go, whether it be going for a walk, or at the office.

Whenever I am at home and I put them on, I just feel underwhelmed and basically disappointed, because I am use to the speaker sound. Sadly, do to noise contrains I can't use them all the time.

Anyone else experience this?

 

You might want to try out OOYH or TBisone (among others). They are DSP options that will help make the headphones feel more natural.

 

Or get rid of the speakers ; )

 

Yup. My HPs have been collecting dust or gone now that I can listen to my speaker setup more often. IEMs for late night and on the go, speakers for everything else.

 

Well, I still listen to headphones while at the office, but when I get home it's all speakers for me.

Sometimes I sort of get why speaker guys laugh at us.

 

I been like this for while and always told people price/performance ratio speakers always wins. Not just imagining ability and separation but, resolving ability, speed/attack,resolution and, definitely much lower harmonic distortion... if have space for them..still though I still love headphones and one day want pair of hd800 for home use and end game headphone wise.

 

That is true but, my experience when I use to produce music that dsp made things bit more unnatural sounding. The 240df were my reference at the time hooked to speaker outs of hk 770 dual-mono power amp. Always felt it made the separation too wide and unnatural for headphone use. I never liked dsp for gaming either when I use to game on pc a lot back then over few years ago...

 

never used an equalizer too much except for dipping/cutting. i used some weird vst that was free and was popular on head-fi at the time. forgot the name but, when i played with it, made things just too delay and wide and translated bad on speakers on playback cause you were trying to make headphone sound close to the whole middle open-ness of speakers and i believe it never had a built-in eq either. i used other vst for that on fl studio and cubase... i actually got better results when i just used simple stereo separation/panning vst's that did well on both headphones and translated pretty well to speakers as well. the vst seem to only translate well on non diffused field equalized headphones. i notice this messing with it on the sextetts and monitor 10's and stax lambda pros i had. they were all free-field equalized. things like the 240DF or sennhesier linear II the stereo separation was already there and when tried to overlap it with the vst it sounded so off no matter how small it was adjusted......

games i had some software dsp thing i tried but, never worked too well. regular stereo worked so much better for cue spotting. all surround sound is, is basically a delay in stereo separation. that's why speakers with good dispersion will sound ''surround sound'' lot of times in a controlled field cause it will play the delay source very well.

 

I know this feeling now, got my first pair of open baffles in yesterday, and I'm regretting not calling into work sick today.