Phiaton PS 320 Dual Purpose Headphones
Following last weeks iPhone as audio recorder post, I’d like to talk about headphones that perform double duty for both monitoring and listening to music. Professional sound mixers need to hear all tracks clearly and evenly so they can have baseline for their recordings that can play on the widest range of speakers and audio systems. This includes everything from portable cell phone speakers to high end audiophile home theater systems. The headphones they use are very flat and linearized so as to not color the sound being mixed. In the photography world, it is like editing all your raw images with the tone curve set to linear. The image files will be flat looking with very little contrast and that’s what music sounds like from traditional monitoring headphones. … Continue Reading
