We are back with another interesting comparison for you from the top-end headphones segment. Today we have the HIFIMAN Arya and Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro and we will compare both of them to know which one is really worth your consideration.
| HIFIMAN Arya | Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro |
| Nice fit and finish | Amazing quality and sturdiness |
| Wide stage | Very capable technicalities |
| Good Sound | Bass and treble extension are great |
| Not that easy to drive | Balanced pads |
| Slam is good but not the best | Not comfortable as long |
General
| HIFIMAN Arya | Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro | |
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| $ | CHECK PRICE | CHECK PRICE |
| Brand | HiFIMAN | Beyerdynamic |
| Type | Over-Ear | Over-Ear |
| Enclosure | Open back | Open back |
| Colors | Black | Black |
| Weight | 404 g | 370 g |
| Connectivity | Wired | Wired |
HIFIMAN Arya
The Arya is put together from Hifiman’s famous (and further expensive) HE1000 line-up, wearing a comparable frame within a matte black structure and more modest packaging to take down the price. It’s a humongous headphone with comparatively better sound quality. It is an over-ear wired headphone with black color and it weighs around 404 grams.
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro
The DT 1990 Pro is the successor to Biodynamic is very popular DT 990 Pro and since its introduction in 2016, it’s been repeatedly praised for its supreme resolution as well as its ability to highlight errors made in the recording and mastering process in this article we will find out whether or not it actually lives up to that reputation. This is the pairs of over-ear headphones with a black color shade and its also light in weight with weighs around 370 grams which is pretty impressive.
Features
| HIFIMAN Arya | Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro | |
| Dimensions | 302.26 x 264.16 x 182.88 mm | 215.9 x 177.8 x 99.06 mm |
| Impedance | 35 Ohms | 250 Ohms |
| Transducer | Planar Magnetic | Dynamic |
| USB | Yes 3.5 mm | Yes 3.5 mm |
| Microphone | No | No |
| Music Controls | No | No |
| Quick Charge | No | No |
| Stereo speakers | No | No |
HIFIMAN Arya
On the bottom, it has a dual 3.5-millimetre connector and a ParyApt balanced cable shoutout to Perry out for providing that cable a while ago. Now regarding some of the specs of this headphone, it’s a 35 mm headphone and it has a sound pressure level of 90 decibels per milliwatts. So you do need a little bit of power to drive it certainly not a massively efficient driver. The Arya have something that you will find to be extraordinarily pleasing about the sound quality neither are technically the best you know if you were to measure you know trouble mid-range bass response and like the cleanliness and the clarity of everything. There are headphones in certain categories that do it better but this headphone is coming in at still a very pricey price tag. But this is getting that the best so far spot is because it’s the conglomeration of the features that add up to kind of an aggregate device.
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro
Beyerdynamic has finally made the cable detachable in the DT 1990 pro. So you get two cables included one is a 3-meter straight cable and the other one is a five-meter coiled cable. The coiled cable is a bit on the long side. It was very easy to wrap up so it made it very comfortable for desktop use. Regardless both cables are very similar they’re both three-pin mini XLR to 3.5 millimeters and they each have their thread on a quarter-inch adapter.
The DT 1990 Pro perform we think you’ll start by saying that it’s an upgrade over the DT 990 Pro. However, it still has some serious issues in the trouble but more on that later additionally at the price of $600. We don’t know if their technical performance lives up to the asking price but we think it is fairly impressive on the DT 1990 pro especially when you consider that’s an open back dynamic headphone around the $500 price range. So these don’t start to roll off until around 40 Hertz and they only do so very gently so they have a very good extension and that’s a huge upgrade over the DT 990 Pro which started to roll off very aggressively around 70 Hertz. So very beginning you will also think that the bass on these was quite well defined you know they had a good resolution in the bass they had a pretty sense.
Design
| HIFIMAN Arya | Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro | |
| Type | Over-Ear | Over-Ear |
| Wireless | No | No |
| Noise Cancelling | No | No |
| Weight | 404 g | 370 g |
| Foldable Design | No | No |
| Adjustable headband | Yes | Yes |
HIFIMAN Arya
The build of these headphones is pretty comfortable and you know if they’re lightweight and you know they’re comfortable when you’re using them. It’s kind of hard to talk about quality although it is also fair to say that at a $1,600 price tag you would expect something of fairly high quality. But even something like the lower end you know a fraction of the price in Sundara has a better build quality. The Arya does use metal on the actual ear cups and the ear brackets and this is kind of plastic almost all the way around except for the metal headband. Although this bar mechanism like all headphones with this kind of bar mechanism up top looks a little goofy when you’re wearing them.
It has a build quality that is astonishing comparatively to this but there are a couple of things that make the Aria comfortable and you recognize a joy for you to wear one is going to be the ear-shaped cups. The size of those cups and from my head they fit well. The headphone strap is fairly comfortable and it’s pretty balanced in weight and doesn’t feel kind of all you know kind of topsy-turvy.
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro
It’s an open back dynamic headphone intended for studio reference mixing and mastering. The build on the DT 1990 Pro is flawless it feels extremely well-put-together and just about everything on this headphone is made out of metal still these managed to remain fairly light at only 380 grams. The headband is made of what to me feels like very nice pleather it’s also very nicely padded you will not get any sort of hot spots on your head when wearing these for a long time. With the DT 1990 pro, you get two sets of pads as expected from Beyerdynamic. The velour on these is second to none there are admittedly a little on the shallow side so your ears do occasionally touch the driver still you will feel like you can wear these pretty much indefinitely. While both sets of pads look and feel very similar they’re not the same and they do provide some slight tuning changes to the DT 1990 Pro. The ones that come installed by the fall are what bar Damon calls their balance pads and that’s indicated by them having several cutouts on the back of the pad.
Connectivity
| HIFIMAN Arya | Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro | |
| Bluetooth | No | No |
| Battery Life | – | – |
| Bluetooth Range | – | – |
| NFC | No | No |
| Multi-Device Connection | No | No |
Talking about the connectivity you knew that both of these are straightly wired pairs of headphones so there are a very simple plug and play scenario. Because of that, you won’t have to worry about battery life and the connectivity range. So the connectivity range fairly depends upon the length of the wire.
Which is better!
HIFIMAN Arya
If you’re going to measure it for a technical performance something like other headphones in the market. It’s kind of have a little bit beefier bass, it’s going to have a little bit crisper and cleaner trouble and it’s going to have a little bit more forward overall sounds. And it’s going to sound more immediate and fast and the features it provided have the best of everything that you will like. It’s got a great warm bass response but it’s not too far it’s not too much it’s got these great large lifelike vocals that come at you in a very unique way you will love that the treble response is just about perfect for not only volume but also about the placement.
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro
While the design remains pretty bulky, the fit remains protected and ample, despite extra-long listening concourses. Two sets of earpads craft with the DT 1990 Pro one pair for open-minded listening, and one that gives a slightly magnified bass response. Finally, we recognize that the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro does excellent headphones. Stated clearly, they’re pretty solid headphones that anyone wants to welcome to use.
