I have some closed-back headphones that have poor sound. Is it possible to improve the sound of the headphones by installing additional speakers?

How much better can the sound of the headphones be if the cups are covered with soundproofing tape?

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    If your headphones are crappy, a better source won’t really help. It’s not an or here, headphones make most of the difference. Only decent headphones will appreciably benefit from a good source.

    MP3 isn’t ideal but, unless you have rather good headphones, 320kbit/s MP3 is pretty damn near transparent.

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        10 months ago

        These are Chinese headphones with no name. However, they looked impressive and I was foolish enough to buy them instead of the inexpensive Sennheiser headphones which cost about the same.

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      10 months ago

      IIRC 192 kbps is about where MP3s get good enough that the vast majority of people can’t tell any difference from an uncompressed recording in ideal conditions. I’ve personally never noticed any loss of quality at 128 kpbs.