Best Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Headphones for Classical Music (Bathys, PX8 or H95?)
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Hi guys, this is my first time talking to a camera so excuse the unprofessionalism here. Lots of words could have been cut for sure. To save your time I made some chapters for you to jump to. However, I think classical music is a delicate subject and needs a bit more space for words and descriptive language than other music.
Let me know below, if you have experience with those or other headphones. For example: Have you compared one of them to the Apple Airpods Max or Bose 700 or Sony XM5?
Do you want me to compare the sound experience of some of my other headphones to the Bathys?
Chapters:
00:00 INTRODUCTION
00:51 WHO AM I?
02:58 WHY A HIGH END HEADPHONE?
05:10 INTRODUCING THE HEADPHONES
05:12 Bowers and Wilkins PX8
05:58 Focal Bathys
06:29 Bang and Olufsen H95
07:16 THE SOUND
08:38 H95 - THE GOOD ONE
10:31 PX8 - THE LOSER
12:47 Bathys - THE WINNER
19:38 CONCLUSION
19:52 Value
Script:
Bang&Olufsen H95: This one is nice. It feels quite neutral, with a certain warmth, richness and its quite direct. Instruments seem close/near by. Character is nice, clear but not too sharp. Cello and Double bass get a bit support. Almost a bit too much maybe? Feels like a smaller room - theyre always more bassy than bigger halls.
Bowers&Wilkins PX8: After 10 seconds I am shocked every time. The violins sound so harsh and tin canny. It actually hurts my ear even in lower frequencies. Listening to electronic music is super fun, movies like Interestellar also come through great - but classical music? ORchestra, Chamber music, solo string players? Not my cup of tea!
Focal Bathys:
This is something completely else. If I have them on, it feels/shounds like I’m in a different room. Its a much bigger „sound stage“ - I picked this term up in reviews - at least it actually sounds like musicians on a stage. They’re further away, still everything is super clear and detailed. But the annoying thing about string instruments is how they sound if you sit really close to them. This sawtooth soundwave can really get annoying and the Bathys do something with them that they get this silky touch that a good hall with beautiful resonance and clarity would give them. Its not like they add reverb or anything, they just make it fun to listen to the high frequencies and give them a silky or velvety touch - SO MUCH FUN! Still theres a lot of bass, but in a more transparent and less insisting way.
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Finally someone that takes classical music into account. Thank you for this review.
Thanks for this video. The way you described music and recorded music is really colourful and beautiful.
Thanks! Hope you can grasp some of the things and get a value out of it :)
Very well described. I first approached high-end audio gear after playing French horn in an orchestra for a living, and everything you said reminded me a lot of my own experience. Spending so much time on-stage listening to "the real thing" makes us sensitive to audio that's not just good, but accurate and true. When you get that sense of being present in the room with the musicians, it's magical. I found that the ability for audio gear to reproduce the nuances of articulation was especially key for conveying musical detail and making me feel like I was in the performance space. Likewise, when the gear or the recording itself get the sound wrong, it's much more difficult to enjoy in the same way.
Cello is a favorite instrument to listen to, and in fact just today I was listening to Alisa Weilerstein playing Shostakovich with Bavarian Radio.
I'd love to know some of the chamber recordings that you especially enjoy.
Hi Michael, thanks for this comment!
Indeed, its the details and the nuances that we need. Like with a voice, we don't only want to hear the words and the information, we need the fines nuances to understand more about the speaker.
Weilerstein is a fantastic cellist - there are really many around. For this recording I listened a lot to Enescu Octet and liked the one with Wilde Frang and Nicolas Altstaed a lot. If you're more into late romantic or modern music, please check out the Bartok Piano Quintet with Kelemen and Altstaed. Let me know what you think and also, please send me your recommendations. Curious to check them out on the Bathys!
I've watched a lot of reviews for these headphones but I enjoyed the different angle, here 👍
Thanks! Was the same for me. So I felt, why not just do it myself.
Nice Review! Mr. Traxxtor :P
Mist, ich wurde enttarnt! 😅
I have the PX8 and use them mainly for rock but also classical. Not sure if you got a faulty pair, as the treble of PX8 is very smooth and generally shouldnt result in listening fatigue.
Possible also. Just they sounded cool with other music. Maybe its also my ears being sensitive to a certain frequency range … 🤷🏻♂️
Have you tried some classical chamber music?
The PX8s are also very boomy coming off the shelf, unfortunately rather needs breaking in for the highs to balance out
@@BAKALOID02 That could also be the case. How long did they take to break in in your case?
They need at least 200 hours to bed in, 400 hours to reach their best performance. It is essential to run them in before judging them.
Very interesting
Happy with ML 5909. Only paid tax and shipping on them at Crutchfield after using cc points
Danke für die Idee der Klassik-Kopfhörer Zielgruppe, aber dachte beim Schauen an mein persönliches Fazit bzw. meine Erfahrungen bisher: Bluetooth Streaming und Klassik hören passen leider nicht zusammen? Mein Tipp wäre ein kleiner „USB-Dragonfly-DAC“ mit Lightning oder USB Adapter und ein InEar oder Headphone (Kabel-Version) kombiniert mit HiRes-Files von Qobuz/Tidal & Co. - ein Test lohnt sich 😊
Das würde mit dem Focal auch gehen, oder?
Für mich war bei der Auswahl auch die Praktikabilität (muss öfter auch unterwegs Aufnahmen kritisch abhören) und so schien der Bathys die beste Wahl. Bis jetzt auch sehr happy mit Klang und Funktion. Für zu Hause könnte ich mir ein DAC schon vorstellen.
@@mathiasjohansencellist werde den Focal auch einmal testen, aber ich denke halt, dass der Flaschenhals der Sound-Qualität auch durch das Bluetooth Protokoll bestimmt wird. Reduziert und komprimiert wird die Musik noch durch schlechte billige Digital/Analog Wandler im Handy oder iPad zum Daten-Matsch. Die kleinen Dragonfly DACs kosten nicht viel (wie ein kleiner USB-Stick) kombiniere das mit dem Sennheiser IE300 und streame über Qobuz👍
@@stephanw.1179 Sehr cool, danke dir. Bathys hat auch einen DAC-Modus, wenn ich das recht sehe, das könnte schon gehen. Bin zwar kein echter Audiophile, aber beim Bathys habe ich das erste Mal - selbst mit BT - das Gefühl, dass nicht nur Matsch ankommt. Bin gespannt, was so ein DAC ausmacht. Kannst du einen speziell empfehlen?
wenn der Focal einen DAC hat müsste er mit Kabel sich besser anhören als über BT? Wäre ja fein👍
for my Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H95
I like listening to classical music at higher volume than other genres.
You can buy them already now for € 699 in different places.
Surely will go further down in future, which is nice. Great tech for less money. Where have you seen them?
Did you break in the headphones? Probably not. Every headphone had to be played for 200-400 hours below releasing their best sound. The px8 are no exception. Immersive sound tech is an excellent sound engineering channel that explains this in his px8 review.... And our lungs don't make noise, rather our larynx does via its vocal cords.
There is no legitimate evidence to support the idea of break in for dynamic drivers. Crinacle already debunked this
Thanks for the comment. I never suggested that I'm an audiophile or a pro. I'm just a consumer that likes highest quality for a specific purpose. If Bathys sounds way better without breaking in, they might still sound better after breaking in. Dont think this gap could have been closed, honestly. But yes, I might never find out.
@@hb-robo interesting. Do you have a link?
@@mathiasjohansencellist Google "headphone burn -in isn't real," and the link to click is the one posted on sound guys.