Submitted by MittensForYou t3_z7oukd in headphones
If you guys wanted techinical music to test out your headphones with give Polyphia a go. Holy shit it's amazing, the better the headphones the better the music mastery comes through.
Comments
klogg4 t1_iy7mrh4 wrote
The interesting counter-example here is Muse - Origin of Symmetry XX RemiXX. DR4, but boy sounds good.
MittensForYou OP t1_iy7n7xn wrote
Did you even listen to them?
Egoexpo t1_iy7rlqx wrote
When evaluating headphones, what is most important is activity in different frequency ranges; in the Harman tests, pop and classical music are the best for testing headphones. Polyphia is very similar to pop songs in terms of activity at different frequencies. The dynamic range is not that important for this specific activity.
wijnandsj t1_iy7ujt6 wrote
Hence me asking instead of dismissing it
wijnandsj t1_iy7zj9r wrote
ok, just fired up spotify.
So strange..
nice guitar, slightly muffled. Really recessed vocals, like the singer is standing just outside the studio. Not much texture in the drums
Inspire
Good guitar, again. Again slightly muffled. Drums sound really artificial.
​
Symmetry
Guitar and a drum computer or something
All falls apart.
Same thing, good guitar but slightly muffled, mediocre drum recording.
I don't see it. There's nothign at all special about the mastering here.
Black lab, a group roughly in this genre, has much better mastering IMO
EducationalPlay6269 t1_iy8btyp wrote
umm…
vagdesign t1_iyahr4n wrote
I test all my headphones with those 2 songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFo2wvQEm_s
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONAcWsGcaQ
In FLAC files with at least 1500kbps bitrate.
wijnandsj t1_iy7lsgg wrote
Their dynamic range figures are awful. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/188691
So can you elaborate?