Question for music makers: How do I know if I bought fake equipment?

Question

Iron

Hello.
Thanks to close cooperation with China, our market is filled with consumer goods. Great, you can not take consumer goods, but buy real good things that now cost 10 times more than 5 years ago. But what if more and more often comes across a Chinese fake for a decent amount of money? My experience is that 3 out of 10 ordered items turned out to be fakes. These are different audio devices. Only a person with good hearing can identify a fake, by and large, such fake consumer goods are aimed at users who do not differ in outstanding skills, who simply simply will not notice anything and will continue to use fake equipment.
And now specifically to the question on which I had doubts.

I bought monitor headphones for mixingBeyerdynamics DT 770 pro 250 ohm . Plugged it into my audio interface and realized I was fucked. Cheap high-pitched Chinese sound. I have a doubt about this, and here I turn to those who are professionally involved in sound - should high frequencies prevail in monitor headphones. Should the bass fail? The fact is that my personal preferences are more conducive to bass music and, perhaps, this is a purely subjective feeling? Where to read professional information?
PS: SoundBlaster headphones for 3000 rubles. sound better, softer and more pleasant.

Answer 1

From the manufacturer.
And, as far as I know, professional monitor ears should not give a pleasant or good sound - their task is to give a 1-in-1 sound like on a recording, with all the dips and distortions. Perhaps you need to listen to different ears right in the store. Starting with the cheapest Chinese ones. Sometimes you can be surprised.

Answer 2

I have such ears, I bought off. store. They have a very detailed top, which some say approaches electrostatic models. In my opinion, even too strongly expressed.
But the bass is powerful. However, very unusual when compared with ears that have smaller ear cushions. As if the sub is loud, but 100-200Hz is quieter than you expect. I got used to them for a long time, and so I’m not completely used to them, I use them only when I process high frequencies.
Monitor headphones are monitor headphones for that - they must be "honest", it is desirable that the frequency response be as even as possible and nothing prevails. However, top-end monitors from different manufacturers will sound very noticeably different.
Try to find on the Internet a record of a sine slowly creeping somewhere from 50 to 20000 Hz. Subjectively, at different frequencies, the volume will change, but not so much that it’s a complete failure.
And of course, just in case, make sure that no compressors / equalizers / enhancers work anywhere in the circuit. It happens that someone turns a knob inaccurately, and the person panics that he has become deaf to low frequencies or has broken the cords.

Answer 3

1. Chinese products are different. There is frank bullshit, there is consumer goods, there are high-quality things. Surprisingly, the Chinese are honest people, their products also have 3 price categories. If you bought bullshit for 3 kopecks, then it is naive to expect quality from it.
2. 20 years of audio equipment repair experience give me the right to say that 60% of the so-called "music lovers" are hard of hearing, and 30% are generally deaf.
3. What you have come up with for yourself there does not matter, it is physically impossible to determine the sound quality of audio equipment by ear (see paragraph 2). Quality is determined only by instruments and nothing else.
PS Googled this device, came to the conclusion that this is nothing more than expensive show-off for lovers of "tube sound". Manufacturers are probably quietly laughing at you

Answer 4

You will understand that good monitor headphones will not be cheap. And that's why they are studio to reproduce the purest sound. Each headphone has its own sensitivity, frequency range, etc. If it seems to you that the bass has failed in them, then you need other “ears”. Look, for example, Shure headphones in more detail here Read exactly the characteristics. And as for the authenticity of the products, then there are two options - either buy the product in the store of the manufacturer itself, or from its official dealer.