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Originally posted by StanVoid So I got the AKG K240 studio headphones gifted to me a few days ago and immediately i took them for a spin. Before this, I've been using the Sennheizer HD280's for approx. 5 years, and the very first thing I noticed was the incredibly deep and booming bass response on the K240's. I thought it was just my poorly mastered tracks, but I played a lot of different stuff on them - from professional trance, to industry-name hip-hop, to the Killers. Everything seemed to have a bit *too much* bass. This got me questioning - are these truly professional studio headphones, or are the K240's just fancy recreational phones? These headphones basically made every track sound like i was playing it with winamp's "Trance" Equalizer setting loaded (aka. the 'smile' frequency spectrum). I'm a bit confused here because I always see the K240's being praised around the production forum and people swear by them. Is it just a matter of getting used to? I'm willing to invest the time to learn their sound and get adjusted to them, but i want to be sure that i'm adjusting to the correct thing. edit: hmm doesn't looke like i'm dreaming http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=0&graphID[]=423&graphID[]=213

K240's are studio headphones, so they should have a completely flat sound. The Frequency Range is listed as 15 Hz to 25,000 Hz. That's flat as flat can be. They shouldn't be exaggerating any frequencies, bass, midrange, ect, you wouldn't want that. They probably sound "bassy" because you've never heard truly flat studio heaphones.

I'd like to give K240's a try sometime. Guess I'll have to get down to a brick and mortar music store again, been a while.

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Originally posted by StanVoid

That was fun. I was trying to post, and it was just hanging there for 5 minutes, so I clicked post 20 times. Guess one shouldn't do that.

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Originally posted by zodiac9 K240's are studio headphones, so they should have a completely flat sound. The Frequency Range is listed as 15 Hz to 25,000 Hz. That's flat as flat can be. They shouldn't be exaggerating any frequencies, bass, midrange, ect, you wouldn't want that. They probably sound "bassy" because you've never heard truly flat studio heaphones. I'd like to give K240's a try sometime. Guess I'll have to get down to a brick and mortar music store again, been a while.

The frequency range doesn't neccesarily mean that the phones are "flat", it just means they extend down that far. There could still be bumps in the frequency response.
But I suspect that you're right in what you say this time, most people aren't used to hearing so large a range and most cheaper phones reproduce mostly mid frequencies since they are "easier" to reproduce.

I think you just got the record for the most number of posts saying the same thing too

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