IK Multimedia TONEX

[Jarick]

Which headphones? Many hype bass and treble and I find that extremely irritating when trying to play with most digital solutions. The solution is different headphones or EQ adjustments for headphone use.

So this is a bit off topic and maybe I'll make a separate thread, but I really prefer playing through headphones instead of through speakers. For whatever reason it sounds a lot better to me. I've tried different real speaker cabs, FRFR, several studio monitors, and tons of headphones. Maybe it's because my room sucks (it's an oddly shaped basement room with a huge opening on one side).

Was thinking about different monitoring options again this week and decided to roll the dice on the IK ARC On Ear. It's a headphone amp / interface with EQ correction for common headphones, speaker/room simulation, and some kind of signal cross feed magic that's supposed to make headphones sound and feel a lot more like real speakers. Also looks to have a really nice big volume knob and has about 1 ms of latency.

My hope is this makes my really nice headphones sound more natural and realistic and with less of the peaks/dips that tend to exaggerate issues in distorted direct guitars.

 

[laxu]

Was thinking about different monitoring options again this week and decided to roll the dice on the IK ARC On Ear. It's a headphone amp / interface with EQ correction for common headphones, speaker/room simulation, and some kind of signal cross feed magic that's supposed to make headphones sound and feel a lot more like real speakers. Also looks to have a really nice big volume knob and has about 1 ms of latency.

I've been interested in picking one of these up.

I use the DearVR Mix VST plugin for headphone correction via SoundSource on my Mac, but it would be a lot more convenient to relegate headphone use to a dedicated device that does this.

I've just been hoping it goes on sale for less money.