Thought this may be interesting for our forumgoers. Sony saw my video and sent me an MDR-MV1 to use as my V-shape reference headphone going forward, so many thanks to Sony for the generosity.
Black traces are every over-ear headphone I have around here at home that I’d say I personally like and use with any occasion, while red trace is my new Sony MDR-MV1. These are measured on my head with in-ear mics, compensated to my individual DF HRTF. All traces have ERB smoothing applied.
Seems like my prediction I made in my video—before we ever got hands on in-ear mics—that the response was not dipping as dramatically in the 7-8 kHz band on MDR-MV1 vs. other headphones was in fact correct. Additionally, the relaxation in the 10-12 kHz band is also very perceptually relevant to me (whereas even on Andrew’s unit I found this area a bit more elevated). Kind of wondering what to do about this headphone’s place on my ranking list given this new information, because this unit sounds even better to me than the Andrew’s did.