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I think I figured out why Trance and such supposedly sound so "good" through these types of headphones....
The DJ's are COUNTING on you using speakers or headphones like this! That's what they MIX it WITH, that's what they mix it FOR. If you listen to Trance on the V6's, you do *not* get that "club atmosphere", you do NOT get a sense of being in a club, not because they're bad headphones (they're GREAT headphones), but because the DJ doesn't know enough about putting these spacial cues in a recording to MAKE it seem like you or in a club; that, or they simply don't care... BECAUSE, chances are, you are going to be listening to this with crappy speakers or headphones which, by their very nature, by their natural DISTORTIONS AND COLORATIONS AND RESONANCES, add a "false room" (read: all of those echoes and resonances in the V700's) to the mix!! So, you could be mixing, and listen to some trance through the V700's, and then the V6's, and decide you like the V700's sound better..... BUT THEN, if you know what you are DOING, you know about harmonics and resonances and the acoustics of the place you want to simulate, you can *ADD* the natural effects that something like the V700's gives to the mix, only better and more controlled, and THEN listen to it through the V6's (which are capable of reproducing mostly ANYTHING)....IT WILL SOUND INCREDIBLY AWESOME!! Anyways, that's what I'm saying; you NEED to get a GOOD idea of what is ACTUALLY ON THE RECORDING, not a DISTORTION of what is on the recording!
By the way, I'm thinking that the CD3000's is one of the few phones that add this false room in a good way (through soundstage and such), which is why they are so godly at trance...because you EXPECT it to be all around you. If you DON'T expect it, and have never been to a club, but just like trance, than the Grado SR-325's, because of their incredible impact, would probably be the best trance headphones.
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