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RE: Best headphone set up?

Posted by genungo on July 24, 2015 at 17:10:40:
I have the feeling that I might listen to music a bit louder than you do, too.
My AKG K-701s usually sound best to me at six or seven on the volume knob, while my Sennheiser HD650s usually only need a four or a five. This works well with good quality, dynamically uncompressed recordings.
With poor quality, "loud", and dynamically compressed recordings the above settings get shoved down a notch or two. OTOH, my phono preamp does not provide as much gain as my digital sources do and so the volume level usually gets turned up a notch when I'm playing vinyl.
So, the ideal volume setting often depends on the state of the recording, at least for for me.
I have the original dual XLR balanced version of the Sonett.