Post by Rabbit on Jul 27, 2013 8:51:10 GMT
I've been playing around with the Mont Blanc which has a bass boost. Normally, I would leave these things alone, since there is a purist inside me that says, 'leave it out!!'
However, the bass boost on the Mont Blanc seems to work really well. It doesn't boost to the point of cloudiness and it really does enhance some of those thinner sounding headphone. (K550 for instance) Add some warmth to these 'cooler' headphones and they turn out to be really quite good.
Since the boost is in an area that is effective without being intrusive, it has made me wonder why this isn't done the other way around as well.
A treble boost/cut.
Two switches - one to boost bass, normal and cut bass.
One to boost treble, normal treble and cut treble.
The 'normal setting could be a bybass so it would be out of the circuit.
You would then have an amp that can be 'voiced to your headphone or liking.
I know that someone will say ..... tone control. On a portable amp, these switches are useful and they stay where they are.
The combos with this simple switching =
B = Bass, N = normal/bypass, T = treble
B+ T+
B+ N
B+ T-
N T+
N N
N T-
B- T+
and so on. It gives a lot of settings to taylor the amp even further to our 'skewed' headphones.
I guess it's me looking at the equaliser route but there is a lot of configuring to taste available there and if you add that to varying output impedance and input gain, this has to cover most headphones and situations for sure!!
Most headphones seem to have a bass hump around 100 hz, and just imagine an amp that could help to smooth this out. Some have skewed treble (either too much or too little. Imagine being able to flatten this out a bit.
It's not yer flat response, but on an amp, it would be a useful feature that could 'enhance' whichever headphone you chose and feel later that it needs a slight improvement in one or both areas of bass and treble.
(Me just daydreaming with these pills?)
However, the bass boost on the Mont Blanc seems to work really well. It doesn't boost to the point of cloudiness and it really does enhance some of those thinner sounding headphone. (K550 for instance) Add some warmth to these 'cooler' headphones and they turn out to be really quite good.
Since the boost is in an area that is effective without being intrusive, it has made me wonder why this isn't done the other way around as well.
A treble boost/cut.
Two switches - one to boost bass, normal and cut bass.
One to boost treble, normal treble and cut treble.
The 'normal setting could be a bybass so it would be out of the circuit.
You would then have an amp that can be 'voiced to your headphone or liking.
I know that someone will say ..... tone control. On a portable amp, these switches are useful and they stay where they are.
The combos with this simple switching =
B = Bass, N = normal/bypass, T = treble
B+ T+
B+ N
B+ T-
N T+
N N
N T-
B- T+
and so on. It gives a lot of settings to taylor the amp even further to our 'skewed' headphones.
I guess it's me looking at the equaliser route but there is a lot of configuring to taste available there and if you add that to varying output impedance and input gain, this has to cover most headphones and situations for sure!!
Most headphones seem to have a bass hump around 100 hz, and just imagine an amp that could help to smooth this out. Some have skewed treble (either too much or too little. Imagine being able to flatten this out a bit.
It's not yer flat response, but on an amp, it would be a useful feature that could 'enhance' whichever headphone you chose and feel later that it needs a slight improvement in one or both areas of bass and treble.
(Me just daydreaming with these pills?)
