Picture below is of the left channel where the cable entry is.Īfter re-assembly it measured differently. So I decided to open them up and to see if the left side had something weird going on inside. Measured it a number of times to be sure including pressing the headphones against the test fixture (clamping force is low). With more complex music the RH-5 cannot be called Hi-Fi and becomes boomy, muffled and compressed sounding.īelow the frequency response of the Roland RH-5 ( Left, Right) The channel imbalance was immediatly obvious whn listening to these headphones (before they were measured) Bass was completely ‘drawn’ to the left. Single instruments and recordings with just a guitar and singer sound decent. The treble itself is at a good level and even though somewhat on the coarse side the quality isn’t poor. There is a strange ‘disconnection’ between the mids and the treble. The area where it lacks is ‘clarity/presence’.īass is ‘wooly’ and the mids are a bit compressed and somewhat ‘muffled’ sounding. The character is warm with a deep and somewhat exaggerated bass.īass quality and mids is decent. Inner pad dimensions: Height:55mm, Width:35mm Depth:12mmĬable: 3m terminated in a 3.5mm TRS connector The driver can handle 1W so can take a beating when lying on the desk. The efficiency is not very high (92dB 1mW). There is a 40mm driver with a 32Ω impedance. The cable is somewhat supple, feels decent and is somewhat microphonic The cable is long (3 meters) and has a 3.5mm TRS jack. Height can be adjusted over 25mm and may not fit all heads.Ĭomfort is good due to the light weight but the ears do get warm after some time and the pads somewhat sticky. The cups can be rotated over almost 360 degrees. Moving the headphone on the head causes a lot of noises. The clamping force is quite low but due to the light weight it doesn’t move on the head when moving around. The pads aren’t soft/compliant as the foam inside feels quite firm.īecause of this getting a good seal isn’t easily done. The pads are made of very thin and soft pleather. It is quite lightweight (190 gram without the cable) The headband is firm-padded and pleather covered. The headphone has a plastic look and feel. It is the cheapest headphone in the Roland line and costs between €25 and €30. The Roland RH-5 is intended to be used with musical instruments monitoring purposes. The bigger the deviation the stronger the effect.īelow an aid to help determining the sound character of headphones with relation to the frequency response. Deviations in different severities at different frequency bands have an effect on the sound character. A horizontal line shows audible neutral response in the plots on this website. The shape of your head, bone structure, pad size, pad ‘softness, (compliance), hair or no hair and or wearing glasses may (drastically) change the frequency response of some headphones, so… your personal experience may differ substantially from these plots.įrequency response (tonal balance) is the most sound-determining aspect of headphones. This is described HERE in more detail.Ī ‘ horizontal‘ frequency response curve on the shown frequency response plots on this website thus indicates a perceived ‘flat’ tonal signature.ĪLL measurements are made with a good SEAL on a flatbed measurement rig. I do not use smoothing because some info about sound quality is lost when plots are smoothed.Īside from a small correction of the microphone itself also some correction in the lowest frequencies is applied to the plots to compensate for the perceived loss of bass when using headphones. Most measurement sites have some smoothing applied which ‘irons flat’ sharp peaks and ‘wiggles’. NO SMOOTHING is applied to the shown plots. power, efficiency, levels, balanced, impedance.Foobar 2000 for Dummies (Part 2) – Playing DSD – SACD plugin.Foobar 2000 for Dummies (Part 1) – General Setup.Subjectivist, Objectivist or Inbetweenivist ? (website links).
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