I have some closed-back headphones that have poor sound. Is it possible to improve the sound of the headphones by installing additional speakers?

How much better can the sound of the headphones be if the cups are covered with soundproofing tape?

  • edric
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    8 months ago

    Short of just getting new cans because the speakers are just that bad, I think you’ll be better off enhancing the sound source instead (EQ, DAC, etc.)

    • weeeeum@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      This is the best answer here, a lot of speakers, headphones, earbuds, etc can be improved significantly with an equalizer. If you don’t know or don’t want to understand the equalizer, your headphones might be supported by Auto EQ. Find your model of headphone in the database and use the premade EQ profile, designed to simulate the Harman target as closely as possible (in short the Harman target is theoretically the “best sound”).