Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
At first, I thought the PHs were a bit muddy-sounding until I started listening more closely recently. These are EXCELLENT for classic hard rock (e.g. Iron Maiden, GnR, Black Sabbath, etc.). The headphones are so surprisingly articulated, and you can feel every pick of the guitar. Try Cliffs of Dover - the soaring guitar + the well-articulated bass line are amazing.
As a few have mentioned already, the bass is phat on these. Maybe I just didn't have a good seal before, but I'm definitely noticing it more this past month. Try this song by Mondo Grosso, it's his latest album, I don't remember the Japanese name, but it features "UA". The bass comes in full and warm, with a little bit of bloom, but you FEEL it.
All in all, these headphones are my current favorites - it might be just be psychoacoustics over time, but there's something so natural to the sound of these headphones despite the elevated bass. The mids though slightly overshadowed by the bass don't lose any clarity whatsoever.
How it measures with Lawton dampening on the driver housing + ZMF Ori pads + 'C' attenuator:
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