Headphones

[XiiXii808]

Would the HD 461i sound better than the sennhesier urbanites considering they have a wider frequency? or would the urbanites sound better?

[Haeking]

3 minutes ago, XiiXii808 said:

Would the HD 461i sound better than the sennhesier urbanites considering they have a wider frequency? or would the urbanites sound better?

A few questions, do you already have a microphone, and what is your budget for headphones

 

[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, XiiXii808 said:

Would the HD 461i sound better than the sennhesier urbanites considering they have a wider frequency? or would the urbanites sound better?

HD 461I: 17 – 22,500Hz

Urbanites 16-22,000 Hz

 

There's almost no difference, but I think the Urbanites are better quality. 

[dylants]

10 minutes ago, XiiXii808 said:

Would the HD 461i sound better than the sennhesier urbanites considering they have a wider frequency? or would the urbanites sound better?

Frequency doesn't matter. Most of the really high and exceptionally low numbers cannot be heard by human ears making that extra high frequency useless. Human ear range is 20-20k hertz, but we can hardly hear those highs and lows. 

[Beef Boss]

 

Frequency doesn't matter. Most of the really high and exceptionally low numbers cannot be heard by human ears making that extra high frequency useless. Human ear range is 20-20k hertz, but we can hardly hear those highs and lows. 

You don't know how triggering that is. Frequency matters but context, headphones it's fine. 

[dylants]

 

You don't know how triggering that is. Frequency matters but context, headphones it's fine. 

Frequency matters but anything above or below human hearing range doesn't. If one pair of headphones has a frequency of 2-50kHz, it doesn't make it better, it just makes it cover the entire human frequency range. On the other hand, a pair of headphones with 20-20k hertz frequency also covers the entire human frequency range. The extra 30k hertz doesn't make those headphones better. 

[Spuriae]

That frequency range spec doesn't matter because that's not how sound works. A driver isn't able to do 17 Hz but magically drop off at 16 Hz; instead its intensity gradually slopes down at the extremes. As a result that spec can be very arbitrary.

 

What's the minimum frequency of the M50? Without some sort of tolerance number there's no way to tell from the spec alone.

 

Range alone also tells you nothing about how they sound. Frequency response graphs, distortion, square waves, etc. can tell you a lot more but are also still not a perfect replacement for subjective impressions.