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That's the thing, your descriptor for reference/monitoring is flatter frequency response for critical listening, and then you acknowledge them as not being flat.  I understand that John Grado's HP1000's are very accurate for monitoring (one of the best), but none of John Grado's creations are really all that accurate for monitoring.  I pretty much only have Grado headphones, so there is no negative bias.  They are fun, that's why I like them.  But let's not classify them what they aren't.

 

How about this:  Put the HP1000 under the reference/monitoring section, and put something like the RS-1i or PS-1000 in the audiophile section.  No sense in putting one of their bottom rung phones on a list with ones that are in the thousands.  You might have to tweak the comfort remarks though

Good point! I see where our graphic can get confusing now because of that description. We almost need a category in between mobile device use and reference / monitoring to compensate for this. We won't want to tell people to use open-back headphones for mobile use on the bus, train, or airplane because of isolation issues. Yet these headphones don't belong in reference, audiophile, or DJ. At the end of the day, picking four categories to classify all headphones in definitely created some dead ends like this. 

 

We'll add in those nicer Grado's in the proper spot and see what we can do about the other pair. A slight tweak to our reference / monitoring description could help clear this up a bit as well. 

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Is this Mark?

 

Edit - I see it isn't.  Sonic Sense has come a long way from being 1 guy selling smart packages for tapers on phish tour...

Hey Grawk,

 

Marc is still one of the owners and is still around here at Sonic Sense. Small world that you've come across him before! Were you involved in any taping yourself?

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Hey all, glad you found our comparisons! Thanks for checking them out and for your input. 

 

For the momentums, that was actually a mistake. If you look on the old image they're categorized in two spots, one was incorrect. We do agree that the momentums don't belong in Audiophile Reference headphones and have moved them to "Mobile Devices" Quite the change eh?

 

As for the Grados, they may not be flat and balanced, but some people enjoy them for referencing in the studio to see how mixes translate to other systems. 

 

Check out the fixed image here. What do you guys think?