How much are the good headphones

When buying a laptop or phone you can rely on the technical characteristics specified in the product description, technical specifications of headphones is not so unambiguous. Sometimes in fashion "Beats" sound much worse than bought on sale "nouneymah" with a significant difference in price. How many are really good headphones? And what a good set of headphones?

The answer is quite simple: Best Headphones - those who enjoy. So, they are exactly as long as they agree to pay for the buyer.

It's not about deception and not in advertising campaigns of major brands that promise for a significant correction to the value of "the best sound in the world." The thing only in the listener. You can not compare Chinese crafts from the newsstand and the top model "senhayzerov". If you blindly listen to the same headphones, the difference may not be as significant.

If the blind audition Chinese "nouneym" shall be replaced by, say, the Russian Fischer for half the price or the Sennheiser Beats, the unexpected can happen. Cheap model may not be worse. However, it is advisable not to know that it is cheap.

In the medium term there are audiophiles warming audio. This process and its real benefit - a topic for another article. Much more interesting is now the opinion of their opponents.

Antiaudiofily believe that in fact the whole point lies in the warm-up psychology. In their opinion, if a person did not like the sound of the acquisition immediately, after a while it begins to satisfy him. Just need some time to get used to a new thing.

Who is right? Probably closer to the second truth. Hearing a person as well as individual as musical preferences. And because until now no company has failed to create a speaker system that could be equally well (in the same volume) to reproduce all frequencies, each model will be perceived individually.

Undoubtedly, there is frankly failing specimens, models and manufacturers. There are people with absolute pitch. But if you imagine the average person that plays digital files from your phone or built-in sound card, it turns out that in each form factor has a certain sound standard, differences from which it is based on personal preferences.

In some headphones will sound good one musical genre, in others - the other. From a technical point of view, this does not apply to the field of high-quality sound. For example, the "bright bass" from the so-called DJ headphone, or the already mentioned Beats although it is necessary to satisfy fans of hip-hop and dance sets, without the equalizer (in many cases with him) will spoil the hard rock and classical music. And vice versa.

There is another side of the sound. To play most of the music is quite enough mediocre performance. Play files simply do not contain limiting frequencies, even if it music in lossless-formats (FLAC, WAV, DTS).

The fact is that the records are processed and clipped back in the studio to not boot the system processing range that people still do not hear - the audible range of human adult is in the range 16-20 000 Hz. Therefore it is very rare to find a record that includes a frequency outside this range. The depth of the sound recordings of the majority is also quite deliberately understated so as not to create problems when listening to the budget and mid-price equipment.

To listen to music (no monitor, audiophile, rebar and other delights for individual notes search) yet correctly determines the price category and listen to them before purchasing the sound on your sound source, reproducing your favorite composition. How much money to take with you?

A reasonable range for the "ears" is somewhere between 1000 and 3000 rubles.

Everything is more expensive, unnecessarily, well, everything is cheaper - buying blindly, except for some models.