Headphones Recommendation

[garage_man]

Well I rip all my own music. I can tell you right now I use MP3 @ 320kbps on my phones and such, otherwise I use WMA Lossless to my PS3 and receivers and all that stuff. Trust me I am aware of how these things are supposed to sound from the studio. The stock headphones have plenty of bass. There really clear to. Highs and lows are shocking pretty accurate. I just didn't find voodoo that amazing to the sound. If you have a good quality recording you are going to hear the parts anyway its just how it works. Not trying to be rude to anyone here but its the truth.

Thanks,
Mike

[gTen]

Originally Posted by garage_man

Well I rip all my own music. I can tell you right now I use MP3 @ 320kbps on my phones and such, otherwise I use WMA Lossless to my PS3 and receivers and all that stuff. Trust me I am aware of how these things are supposed to sound from the studio. The stock headphones have plenty of bass. There really clear to. Highs and lows are shocking pretty accurate. I just didn't find voodoo that amazing to the sound. If you have a good quality recording you are going to hear the parts anyway its just how it works. Not trying to be rude to anyone here but its the truth.

Thanks,
Mike

I didn't take it as being rude don't worry, this is what forums are for, discussing different opinions/viewpoints and etc.

I personally use full size headsets as I don't like in-ears too much and to me the sound seems awesome with voodoo sound. As far as in ear headsets, I found the ones that came with the epic to be pretty good for a free pair.

But you an definitely notice a huge difference between say my friends Klipsch headsets and the stock ones.

We tried both with voodoo sound and it seems amazing to me that a cellphone can output like that. But I will admit that when I ran songs things that were of lower quality you can hear the little distortions.

And I can't exactly say we are alone on this as reading most audiophile forums most seem to recommend voodoo sound.

Hmm..I wonder what settings are you using in the voodoo sound app?

[garage_man]

Originally Posted by gTen

I didn't take it as being rude don't worry, this is what forums are for, discussing different opinions/viewpoints and etc.

I personally use full size headsets as I don't like in-ears too much and to me the sound seems awesome with voodoo sound. As far as in ear headsets, I found the ones that came with the epic to be pretty good for a free pair.

But you an definitely notice a huge difference between say my friends Klipsch headsets and the stock ones.

We tried both with voodoo sound and it seems amazing to me that a cellphone can output like that. But I will admit that when I ran songs things that were of lower quality you can hear the little distortions.

And I can't exactly say we are alone on this as reading most audiophile forums most seem to recommend voodoo sound.

Hmm..I wonder what settings are you using in the voodoo sound app?

Okay so I just did a test. These are the songs and the bitrate. These are all in lossless WAV format.

Talking Heads-Once In a Lifetime @1411kbps
Talking Heads-And She Was @1411kbps

Pink Floyd: The Wall-Goodbye Blue Sky@1411
Pink Floyd: The Wall-The Show Must Go On@1411

For fun I threw in Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness and a few others. THESE ARE MP3's @ 320.

Okay so I did the test fair. I used the phone with voodoo and my computer with just windows media player 12. I DIDN'T USE HEADPHONES CAUSE THAT'S NOT A FAIR TEST. There was NO modification to the equalizer settings. I run everything at normal period.

Okay so the results are very simple. This voodoo program doesn't improve the sound at all. The computer was far far clearer. (I RAN THE SAME RCA CABLE FOR BOTH DEVICES TOO) I mean there were parts on the phone that were just...missing?? lol. The voodoo did make it louder but as far as improving the quality I found it did subtract but not improve.

My test receiver was a Denon and I use new Cerwin Vega speakers all with the equalizer at 0,0 for everything. That is the true test of stereo equipment, if you have to even touch a equalizer it isn't good. Anyway onto the settings of the voodoo...

Headphone Amp: 0db
Volume Limit: 3db
Bass Boost: OFF!!!!!!
Anti-jitter:Checked
Hi-Fi play: Checked
DAC: Checked

If you feel I might be mistaken let me know but with this I found the sound quality not that great. It seems to be a amplifier at best and a killer of sound at worst.