What an amazing presentation! This man knows what he's talking about! How rare to find one like him, it helped me really much to get an idea what is out there and where they all stand compared to each other. Thank you very much!

Insightful and inspiring, well done gentlemen👍 37:50 “...it goes beyond the level of speakers”, a wonderfully passionate Tom comments on the AMT equipped HEDD Heddphone🙂 Also Tom’s tips, Slate VSX, is quite intriguing👍

Really useful and informative video - thank you!

Great Video; very informative and your passion shines: Your advices are most valued, Thank you

This is brilliant. So much better informed now thanks

Brilliant video. Thanks!

Thank you...exactly what I've been looking for.

Many thanks for doing this guys, a thoroughly enjoyable watch.

Great video. Thx, guys.

Very informative, thanks!

Love my DT 1990 Pros, use them with the calibration in Realphones and they sound superb! 😎

Personally use sienna from acustica audio. highly recommend.. has many more options that have been captured very well, from clubs to cars, outside stages, supermarkets, studios and monitors.

awesome 👏🏻 video, many thanks! LCD-X's for me, topped off with SS VSX's!

Very insightful! The only problem I have with mixing with headphones is to judge the leveling of HiHats. Most of the time I turn on my speakers I notice that the HiHats can be 4 to 6 db less in energy. Does anyone else has problems with leveling in headphones? Right now I got the Focal Clear Mg Pro and the LCD-X here for comparison!

Amazing thank you

thanks so much for this video! These comparisons are crucial for an educated buyer , especially for studio use. i really want to ask you 1. how do you feel while wearing the heddphone ? ( i have tried the LCD X and i found one thing to be extremely annoying = if i moved my head down (forward ) to use analog gear etc, it kept falling off my head, and also the weight did bother me after an hour. can you tell us if the heddphone fell off your head if u moved it forward (gravity) 2. can you tell us how the heddphone did with the RME UCX 2 headphone amp? i hope to use it with that 3. LCD X vs Heddphone . would you say in terms of neutral freq. response and soundstage , stereo width, the heddphone wins? 4. A question about your speakers! could you tell us why you choose Genelec THE ONES over for example ATC? do you find the SAM technology to calibrate well and quick you a more neutral response in your room? Thanks a lot!

Thanks for doing this! So if you use Realphones in addition to Can Opener and Sonarworks, do you keep the Correction & Angle/HRTF modules off? And keep speaker/subwoofer, ambience, density/warmth & tone (if needed) on?

I use GoodHertz Can opener with Hornet VHS. Best set up I have found

must say I specifically mix meant for headphones doing podcasts. and the lack of crossfeed can be a plus. you can go into more extremes you will only hear on headphones. but when your reference is speakers and you use headphones, something like canopener can be great.

Hi, great video! Few words about Sienna and good headpnes to bundle ? What about cheaper "clones" as Superlux and Monoprice ? In win7(not tested in w10) Vrmbox is ok and good amp until 250 ohm. Correcting the frequency response to be near the Harman curve, a stereo to binaural converter and impulse reverb it would be possible to come close, and with few money, to other expensive bundle. What do you think ?

Thanks for your professionalism. I love that goodherz plug in I actually decided to leave it on the master even after I finished the mix on the headphones because the track sounds better even on the monitors with a more open stereo image and the transients are cleaner. Do you agree ? Or do you think it makes no sense to leave it once the headphones are removed? But I like the song on the monitors much more with this plug in! ps What do you think about Ollo s4x ?

Hello! Is it worth an SPL Marc One w/ lcdx over a ifi dac? Is there going to be a huge quality improvement over my Apollo twin X ? Thank you. Or should I rather invest in a Focal mg for my secondary system? Thank you again.

4:45 “Things always become a lot more difficult when it’s small.” Yeah, that’s what she said

Hello, what about the neumann headphones that you have there?

Excellent video! Question, though. What about Tube amps? I have fallen in love with the Valhalla 2 and my Focal Clear Mg. Just sparkles! The level of detail “seems” greater with the tubes over an SMSL 500 series. For instance on classic jazz, like Vince Guaraldi, I can clearly hear the almost inaudible brush strokes swishing around the drum head. But for mastering, too colored?

Hey! Ty for this! also, , is there a headphone you could recommend for under of 200 eur? (of course not being at the level of the others, but something decent and plain enought to start with?) Ty in advance!!!

Is there any headphone that is a close Alternative to the Genelec 8351 in the backround?

Great advice I learnt a lot! I’ve always struggled mixing in headphones, I will give these plugins a try, something else I notice when mixing in headphones is the BPM seems to be different, maybe it has something to do with latency hitting your ears as they are closer I’m not sure? Thanks :-)

When I got told to buy speakers bc you can't do music production with headphones I got studio monitors and within a week they got put back in the box. Headphones are king

Where to begin. First. Amazing video. 2. Never owned open backs before but really want some. Been using M50’s for years. Currently with 2i2 3rd gen. Have an untreated room with KH120 monitors. Tired of mixing with the M50’s. Love recording with the monitors but cannot hear enough detail. HD600’s seem like a good idea and affordable. I’m not a pro but I love mixing when I can hear lots of detail. Naturally I am very sensitive to sound so the more detail the better…don’t know which phones to get! 🙏🏾

Reviewing this one again as I've changed my monitoring chain (mostly ITB, the smallest home studio setup you could imagine). I've been using Hifiman's wired DEVA for the last few weeks, which is an entry level planar; would you still recommend Realphones over GoodHertz if given the choice? I have even contemplated Realphones just for the headphone correction (using the Sundara's curve), then Goodhertz for the crosstalk.

So I just watched a long Audeze commercial and Slate Digital paid just couple of hundreds. Who will use something like Penrose for mixing?

HD600s corrected through Sonarworks, you may experience some distortion coming from the low end because of the boost you would need to do to the bass

Hello. What about the Lcd-xc ?

When you say Reaphones smears the transients, which module of it do you mean? I would assume it's safe to use if you bypass the room emulation and HRTF ?

Will Scan be selling the slate VSX 2.0 headphones noting that a competitor has claimed exclusivity here in the UK?

Good vid chaps thanks. But... I love my car tests!

Nice video .I regret the money i spent to all the speakers i bought.I ll buy an lcdx and stop there

Hi guys - wondering whether these high quality headphones are all 5.1 capable?

I mix and master on an Tascam DP 24SD portastudio. Used portastudios for 30 years. It's just for me and the band. So, I'm not looking for top end studio quality stuff, I like what I get in the analog world. Plus I'm old and that's what I'm comfortable with :) What is a great Headphone for that situation. Something that sounds great without plug-ins?

How would you compare the LCD-1 to the Penrose? Trying to deicide if I want an all-rounder like the Penrose or if the LCD-1 is worth the price difference sound-wise. Also, does the Penrose come with the 3.5 mm trrs cable? Thanks!

Here’s a question, what do you put first in the chain in your master bus. The corrective eq into can opener or can opener into the corrective eq?

Tom Autobot You da man🙌

The Realphones plug in by dSoniq seems to have the same features as Can Opener plus much much more. So is it safe to conclude that if you get Realphones you do not need Can Opener?

I have the Audeze Mobius, which is like the Penrose, and I can tell you right now the DSP in the headphone adds a discernable latency. Enough for me to not be able to track with it.

plz bro could u review the avantone planar red u should hear them thnx in previous

If you were to use canopener for crossfeed, sonarworks for frequency response correction, and realphones for room modelling. In what order would you place the plugins on the master buss for the best result?

Isn't using software EQ correction degrading the sound? Would it not be better to use eq on the likes of an RME ADI 2/4?

If you had to recommend between these two, which would it be: Audeze LCD1 with Reveal+ or Slate VSX ?

but how about austrian audio hi-x65?)

Surprised to see you talk so highly of VSX. I used to think it’s snake oil tbh.. will try

What about LCD-2 clost back? (Mixing in the living room 😉)

And what’s the best headphones now for mixing? I’ve tried the HEDDPhones with Can Opener Plugins but I can’t really mix on them like on my Genelec 8050 Speakers

My comment about opensource alternatives to mentioned software solutions gets deleted all the time. Please tell what's going on here?

22:38 *raises hand*

No akg no sure?

you missed OLLO Audio,... :)

Why is he wearing headphones that aren’t even plugged in the entire time? Or does he have the only wireless audeze lcd x in existence!

Hmm,,, I'm wondering why one would try to replicate a flawed environment such as cross-feed from drivers in a room!? I guess its to replicate time, air and space etc but even so...surprised there isn't a more sophisticated method for simulating air and time... Love to know professor....

Nee some help. What does he mean when he says: you need some "EVEN" headphones but not "FLAT"? Sorry I am not English and I don't understand what he meant with ·"EVEN".

Are the HD650 headphones worth the extra $100 over the HD600 headphones?

My mixes routinely suck. I don't think anything will help.

You guys are forgetting about good ole Neumann NDH20’s

More sugar($) more sweetness ;)

I have the HEDD headphones, they're pretty useless. MM-500 FTW

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First!

If you're going to use headphones for extended periods, you will have health issues with your ears. Both outside your ears, like bruises, and inside your ears. I know because I've done that. So don't do it. I'm sure this guy doesn't do that either, although he seems over enthusiastic about mixing with headphones. He will use the headphones with the correction plugins only to check the results of his mixing using monitors.

Great video but the sound sucks 🙂

this is so misleading on so many levels - nothing more than an infomercial

what does the statement, "meant to be heard" even mean? that is part of the problem. hearing (perception) is 100% subjective. i get such a kick out of listening to "audiophiles" making these statements. however, i have noticed that any live performance i have heard is the most dynamic, bass heavy, treble heavy, mid heavy experience i could have. yet these alleged audiophiles swear that the intended "way to be heard" is the flattest frequency curve possible. fact: no truth telling human on earth would choose a flat frequency response over a nice reproduction of any recording with an emphasis on both the upper and lower frequencies heard by the human population. True Audiophiles are Unicorns. They don't exist. They just think they hear something the other 8 billion humans on Earth don't hear. News flash. They don't. They just have bigger ego's and are able to convince others that they are superior, when they are not. Some people love low frequencies. Some love the uppers or mids. No one is right or wrong. But at least they found a way to make money.