In every industry, there will be a few highly respected people. In the HiFi industry, it is difficult to have such a person. The reason is actually very simple. The voice is a very subjective thing. Maybe many people in the circle don’t think. Less, has won the recognition of many enthusiasts, but may never become a truly "highly respected" position, because everyone likes different voices. But I have to admit that there are many seniors in the HiFi circle, at least for this The views and understanding of the industry are still accepted by most people.
For this high-end headphone cross-evaluation, it brings together almost all the flagship and sub-flagship products that are currently on the market. For these high-priced top products, not every ordinary consumer will pay for it. For enthusiasts, many of these products still feel that the price is too expensive. The headset market has undoubtedly developed rapidly in the past few years, and each manufacturer is updating its product line very quickly. Even if it is the flagship. For such a market, is the status quo a benign, high-speed development situation, or is it a kind of high-priced manufacturer that only uses price to attract attention and earn profits? Maybe everyone’s views are Not the same, at least for the average consumer and enthusiasts, their perception of high-end headphones and their chances of buying money is completely different.
This horizontal reviewer specially invited several old fans in the headphones or fever circle and more influential friends on forums, blogs and Weibo to write their current views on the high-end headphones market. They are high-fidelity audio. Editor-in-Chief Mr. Pan Zhiqiang, Lin Sheng Electron's Lin SIR, HiFiMAN founder Nankai Rice, Headphone Club Xiaobai, Senior Fan & Wire Headphone Designer Da Huang. How do these five people think about the current high-end headset market? Let's take a look together.
A mixed growth point - Pan Zhiqiang
If you pay attention to the Hi-Fi audio market, you will find that with the rise of the Internet and the change of electronic technology, traditional audio products are also changing actively or passively. The hotspot of the audio market continues, but in 2000 After that, these hotspots are becoming more and more closely related to the Internet, personal computers, digital technologies, etc. With the rise of Apple's ipod players, digital music files are gradually accepted by young music lovers, and the sales of CD records are coming down. So that the record giants such as Philips have to regret it, one of the CD specs has become the loser of this digital age.
The traditional stereo audio market is also undergoing profound changes. The polarization of audio equipment is serious: on the one hand, top brands such as Kama, Gaowen and FM continue to introduce high-end peak products, and the pyramid of the audio market has never been On the other hand, cheap portable devices are everywhere, digital players, headphones, and amps have become the emerging growth points of the market, attracting countless young enthusiasts.
Headphone products have never been so popular. From a deeper perspective, traditional Hi-Fi audio products are becoming more and more expensive, housing prices are getting higher and higher, work pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and many young enthusiasts are hard to have enough. Time, enough space and enough budget to consume the traditional playback system consisting of speakers, amplifiers and CD players. The portable player with headphones and amps has already produced a good restore effect; plus such as The magic headphones and other fashion headphones in the demonstration role of young hipsters, headphones is not only a tool to listen to music, but also become a fashion accessories and trend items, headphones, has never been so hot, whether it is a few hundred dollars or thousands In the era of the decline of traditional audio equipment sales, the earphones have undoubtedly become a blue sea in the South China Sea.
There have never been so many brands in the past, and the traditional headset manufacturing brands such as Sony, Sennheiser, AKG, Beyerdynamic, and Iron Triangle have accelerated their pace. There are many brands that did not make headphones. I also joined in, and I have not mentioned a series of emerging brands. I have a lot of successes, and I have mixed faces with less success. Not only that, but many brands that produce speakers can’t sit still, and the headset market is so hot. The speaker is also experienced in the production of replay equipment. There are some similarities between the speaker and the earphone. It is very important to squeeze into this market as soon as possible. So we see that B&W, Focal, KEF, Bose, and Jasper are all scrambling. Joined the competition of headphones products.
There are more and more brands, but to be honest, what I really impressed in the past few years, can have the impulse to buy new products, in fact, it is only a few of the traditional big-name Sennheiser HD800, Beyerdynamic T1 and so on. Most of them only leave the impression that "the appearance is beautiful" or a good performance in some aspects; there are many products that are expensive, but after listening to it, people are voicing... Of course, the market demand is different, and my judgment is not necessarily In line with the wishes of others.
In any case, the excitement of the headset market also gives us more choices, more choices and more exciting, this is not a bad thing; competition between headphones, will also make the price return to reasonable, these are the gospel of enthusiasts. But There are more products, and all kinds of publicity are really unclear. Not only headphones, players, amps, accessories, how to choose these things, but also more and more complicated. I can only say one: the current market The products are mixed and seemingly varied. In fact, there are not many tests that can stand the test. You better believe in yourself, listen more and compare, and get the most real feelings; your choice is the one that best suits your needs. best choice.
I don't know if the headset market can still maintain today's heat in the next three years. In any case, we have witnessed this lively and extraordinary history. After reviewing the sound development process over the years, this is a wonderful time that cannot be skipped.
The popularity of enthusiasts - Lin SIR
"Why do you like things that suddenly become popular? Will there be a feeling of being robbed of a wife?"
This is a post on the South China Sea in the past few days, which triggered a wide-ranging discussion. After all, this "suddenly a large group of people who seem to be 2 suddenly fell in love with things you like and caused you to be sick." Everyone has experienced this, and similar things happen in every area where the niche becomes less niche or even the mass, including headphones.
In the past two years, the earphones have been fired--there are countless brands to take off their trousers to the sea, and countless models have been released. Each has its own flagship. One match is more than a gimmick, and the word is "expensive!" However, the works of these flagships that are truly high enough in quality and good music are very embarrassing. Many of them are unsightly eyeball luxury goods. Many old models of the last era are still promoted by the enthusiasts as the best works. It does not present the scene of "the waves of the Yangtze River and the waves before the waves" - this is actually an inevitable way of industrial development: manufacturers must cater to the public in order to earn money, and when the headphones are noticed by the public and the main body types of consumers are expanded and diluted After the change, the original group of consumers will inevitably feel weightlessness in the whole industry and the core aesthetics, and even the traditional headset enthusiasts and the new headset consumer groups have a certain degree of opposition, which is understandable.
Culture, art and music are not scientific research. They need to be falsified and confirmed. It is more of a kind of existence and reasonable phenomenon. It will always change and remain for a long time. For many of today's headphones, including many flagship headphones, especially many new ones. Flagship headsets, their tuning, design, packaging, values ​​and other aspects of change, I do not want to make any forward-looking judgments. I prefer to listen to their respective changes and persistence, impetuous or calm, more willing to feel and remember this Everything is right and wrong, handed over to tomorrow, and handed over to others tomorrow.
In short, it’s not me. In front of music and headphones, I’m just a listener – let’s leave the right hand and let everything go to the ear.
High price does not necessarily think of high-end headphones - Nankai rice
In the past few years, the expensive fashion headphones have been popular, and the flagship model of the fever headphones has become more and more expensive. Whether the sound is really worth the price, this is the benevolent, the wise see wisdom.
Headphones are divided into dynamic, flat, static three. Among the flagship headset models, Sennheiser, Baia and Akg are the dynamic brands. These three current flagship products include hd800 and t1. The speaker has high efficiency, but the distortion is large. In the speaker, multiple speakers are often used to be responsible for different frequency bands. However, because the space inside the earphone is small and cannot accommodate a large number of enthusiast-level frequency divider components, it is difficult to control the balance of the frequency response curve. And the lower distortion in the full frequency band. Because of this, the three major German brands have chosen to reduce the sensitivity and improve the requirements of the headphone amplifier to reduce the distortion. Therefore, the cost of the headphones is not improved but can be sold at a high price. The complexity and price of the amplifier have also gone up, the merchants are happy, but the economic cost of the enthusiasts has greatly improved. Not kind.
Flat-panel headphones as a newcomer to fever headphones. The flat-panel headphones represented by hifiman and Audeze have a natural sound quality compared to dynamic headphones: low distortion and wide frequency response. But the same, their problem is due to the efficiency of flat-panel headphones. Lower, had to expand the size of the magnet, which caused the problem of excessive weight is difficult to solve. The overweight is directly connected with the wearing comfort is low. Before solving this problem, it is difficult for the flat-panel headphones to challenge the status of the moving flagship headphones. And into the mainstream. My hifiman team is working hard for this, and has achieved milestone results.
The electrostatic earphone is the jewel in the crown of the earphone market. The product cannot be mass-produced. The driver must be equipped with a dedicated high-voltage amp. The amp has a great influence on the sound quality. These three points determine the static earphone for a long time in the future. Unable to popularize, can only set up an image in the high-end market. In addition, the current flagship product of stax is a sky-high price, but the sound quality is not comprehensive, the thin is lack of the lower plate, less than 20 years ago, the antique flagship Sennheiser he90 Good balance.
In summary, the flagship headphones still need to work hard, our hifiman team will continue to work hard, for the development of the industry to make their own a small force.
Top Headphones - Headphones Club White
Headphone enthusiasts called "top headphones", the earlier representative works are AKG K1000, Sennheiser Orpheus, HD540G, Sony R10, Stax Omega, etc. Those are the products of the 1990s, reflecting At the peak of Hi-Fi headphones at that time. In these works, Orpheus electrostatic headphones, Omega electrostatic headphones, must be matched with the original manufacturer of the drive. The K1000 is a low-sensitivity dynamic ring headset, designed ahead of time, is equal to A pair of completely open small speakers hanging on the head, the manufacturer also provided the original amplifier (designed by another manufacturer), its design concept is somewhat similar to the so-called Earspeakers of Japan's Stax. Sony's R10 Headphones, the price of more than 20,000 yuan, is the most expensive dynamic headphones, its design is also used with the preamplifier in the Sony R10 series.
Therefore, it can be seen that most of the top-level earphones have original drive devices, and we can see that except for the R10, they are all open-ended designs. From the perspective of the earphones, the open design does bring more For open and natural sound field performance. We know that the biggest drawback of headphones is the presence of the In-head Effect. The sound field is not as open and natural as the speaker. The open headphone design makes it easier to achieve a more natural and open sound field. To alleviate the head effect of the headphones. It is worth noting that although the Sony R10 is a closed design, it also achieves a high level in the sound field, which can be said to be the leader in the performance of closed headphones.
Sennheiser Orpheus electrostatic headphones are divided into two sizes, but they are all discontinued soon. They have not become the model for continuous production. In the dynamic ring headset series, starting from HD540G, and later HD560, HD580, HD600, HD650 This product line has become a classic, especially the HD580 and HD600, becoming the evergreen model in high-end headphones. Until today, the HD600 model is still in production, although the HD700 has been updated. HD800.
Since the launch of the Sennheiser HD800, the price of the top dynamic headphones has risen to more than $1,000. Since then, the top headphones with the same price and more than $1,000 have been born for the Beyerdynamic Tesla 1, Goethe GS1000 and PS1000. These top-level headphones, we can see the top headphones of European and American manufacturers, basically maintain an open design to get the most natural sound field performance, while Japanese manufacturers insist on closed design, such as the top headphones of the iron triangle. Models, W2002, L3000, W5000, W3000ANV, Denon's D5000, D7000, Fostex's TH900, etc., all adopt closed design. Due to the adjustment of the company's strategy, Sony has not placed the focus of product development on Hi-Fi in recent years. And Hi-End grade products, so in recent years there is no top level headphones.
One thing is quite interesting. One of the biggest advantages of high-fidelity headphones is that they have a low distortion. The earphones are lighter in quality and the distortion is at least an order of magnitude lower than that of the speakers. However, if some people think that the distortion of the top headphones is very low, so the sound should be similar, it is completely wrong! The top headphones of the various brands listed above have very low distortion indicators. However, the sense of hearing is completely different, and their respective characteristics are distinct. Sen Hai, Bai Ya, Goethe, Denon, Iron Triangle, Fostex, the top headphones of these manufacturers, each with its own tone and sound characteristics, completely different from each other! What does this mean? What is it? It means that the distortion index of the replay equipment is lower, and the sound is the same. The sound of Hi-Fi equipment is different and can not be summarized and described by the distortion index. Even a pair of headphones The distortion index is lower than the lower limit of the measuring equipment, and the human ear can still hear its own sound characteristics.
In general, because the vibration system of the earphone is very light, the transient response is excellent, and the diaphragm is close to the human ear during playback, the biggest advantage of the earphone listening is clarity, transient, transparency, these are indeed High-end speakers are also difficult to match. But at the same time, we must also reasonably remember the limitations of earphone listening. The low frequency is not true and natural, and the sound field is not as good as the speaker. Even the top headphones mentioned above can not get rid of these limitations. So the headphones Listening, still can't be too idealistic. Those who think that the sound of the top headphones is very neutral, or that the top headphones have no limitations in terms of sound performance are completely wrong.
Flagship Headphones Thinking - Rhubarb
The flagship headphones are no longer synonymous with several headphones. Once upon a time, the world of earphones was also dominated by the three major brands. The flagship headphones mean Senhai, Baia, akg. Today, in addition to the traditional giant People continue to introduce new products, the birth of new brands and the addition of traditional audio brands, the headset market is particularly prosperous, and the flagship headphones have become a special reference. Each brand is the most expensive and most representative of a brand of products. It will be called the flagship. But the flagship headphones must be the flagship of the voice, this is a matter of opinion.
Playing headphones for more than a decade, step by step from the past HD600, DT880 era, is indeed a meteorological. It is worthy of recognition, the quality of the flagship headphones are marching forward, of course, the price has risen sharply. In the past, a flagship product was mostly between 2k and 3k RMB. Now, the flagship of not more than 8,000 is rare. But look at their past and present, and perhaps understand the trend of headphones development.
The quality of the previous generation of flagship headphones is now a medium-to-high level, and basically high impedance. This generation of flagship is high and low, and the quality has climbed a lot. It can be said that fever headphones have entered from the previous dvd era. In the current era of Blu-ray. (It is no wonder that the price of the headphones will increase and the amount of information will increase.) I personally think that the technology has greatly improved in the past 10 years, but the artistry of fever headphones, There is no substantial growth. Take Senhai HD800, there is indeed a lot of progress in acoustics and speaker technology, but the sense of hearing, many people are not even as good as HD600 for 800, which explains a problem. The advancement of pure technology can promote the prosperity and development of the headset market, but the stimulation of the mature enthusiast group is far less than the newcomers who have just started. The earphones are used to listen to music, in addition to the matching of equipment, the headset itself carries The music concept is also an important manifestation of the intrinsic value of the headset. Sadly, in today’s headset market, I saw a lot of products pale. Force, pure technical sound without sound belief, is the most desolation of death sound. Although many enthusiasts want to pursue the restoration without dyeing, but this does not exist, any kind of restoration has style and dyeing, they There is a high score between the fans. What enthusiasts should do is to choose their own preferences, rather than to reject the interpretation. Many businesses promote wrong ideas, use a lot of newcomers to know the high-end headset products, which is now carried by the flagship headphones. The concept of culture is gradually shifting to the local earphones.
This should be a kind of sorrow in the fever industry. The bad habits of the price theory have not been eliminated, but they have become more and more popular at the moment of rapid development. This has contributed to the fact that the price of the flagship headphones has become increasingly unreliable, especially this year. There is a headphone product with a price tag of nearly 40,000. I understand it more as a brand promotion gimmick, instead of really wanting to launch a headphone work.
As an enthusiast, I am very pessimistic that the cultural value of headphones is getting weaker and lighter. I used to talk about different voice concepts of different headphones, and the era of thinking about different music has disappeared.
Written at the end:
For the high-end development of headphones, we can see that the opinions of these old burners in the circle are still very different, but we should also see that some of them are engaged in different industries, and the experiences of the enthusiasts are different. The understanding is also different. It is an indisputable fact that the headset is developing towards high-end. This shows that people's demand for high-end headphones is increasing. It is a good thing to improve the music appreciation ability. But the voice is very subjective, everyone The understanding is different, and the trade-offs between their values ​​are naturally different. Values ​​and worthlessness should have their own trade-off criteria.
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