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Steven Slate Audio VSX Modeling Headphones Essentials Edition

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Steven Slate Audio VSX Modeling Headphones Essentials Edition
Key Features
  • Offers the Sound of Famous Mixing Rooms
  • Check Mixes in Audiophile Rooms & Cars
  • Closed-Back Over-Ear Construction
  • Flat Response between 20 Hz & 20 kHz
Designed for the demanding producer or mixing engineer who works from home, the Steven Slate Audio VSX Essential Edition is a system that comprises a pair of headphones and complementary software. The result of this system is the ability to monitor in a variety of acoustically treated environments with an immersive 3D experience that removes mix issues caused by poor room acoustics and limited speaker selection. With VSX, you can mix confidently and achieve professional results for anywhere in the world.
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Steven Slate Audio VSX Overview

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Note:
The software included with these headphones requires iLok license management to run. Also, please remember to bypass this plug-in before sending your mixes to clients, or else the mixes will not sound as you intended.
Get Perfect Mixes with the Steven Slate Audio VSX Essential Edition
Designed for the demanding producer or mixing engineer who works from home, the Steven Slate Audio VSX Essential Edition is a system that comprises a pair of headphones and complementary software. The result of this system is the ability to monitor in a variety of acoustically treated environments with an immersive 3D experience that removes mix issues caused by poor room acoustics and limited speaker selection. With VSX, you can mix confidently and achieve professional results for anywhere in the world.
Benefits
  • Sonically flat, linear, closed-black, hi-fi stereo headphones
  • Combine with VSX modeling software for multiple mixing environments and speakers
  • Beryllium drivers provide ultra-HD audio response
  • Multiple speaker options per room, global output speaker EQ, and calibration settings to personalize the listening experience
  • Redesigned metal headband for enhanced durability
  • Tested to withstand sweat, humidity, drops, temperature, and extended high-volume listening
  • 2-year headphone warranty
Perfect Mixes Just Got Easier
The VSX from Steven Slate Audio enables you to create and mix your music in authentic recreations of world-class mixing studios, mastering rooms, car stereos, nightclub sound systems, and more, from anywhere in the world. It accomplishes this by utilizing a hybrid system combining a state-of-the-art beryllium driver headphone (powered by Scaeva Technologies), and a revolutionary binaural perception modeling plugin that realistically recreates the way that humans hear speakers.
Pro Mix Environments Wherever You Are
One of the biggest challenges in the modern home studio is monitoring. Poor monitoring environments and substandard room acoustics make it exceedingly hard to trust what you're hearing. Bad monitoring environments can lead to frustrated mixers and producers releasing sub-standard product. Pro studios can overcome these challenges by hiring acousticians, but those who work at home don't have the same control over their space or budget to hire professionals to sort out their rooms. The VSX offers producers and mixers the ability to produce and mix in recreations of precisely tuned listening environments, including famous pro mixing and mastering studios.
Intuitive, Helpful Software Included
Place the VSX plug-in at the end of your chain, and you'll be able to switch between different environments at the click of a button. In many environments, you can switch among near-, mid-, and far-field speakers. You can also adjust the amount of room reflections present in the resultant sound. Furthermore, you can EQ most of the environments to tailor the sound to your liking, if you so choose.

The software, which is quite easy to use, is included with the headphones. It is compatible with Mac and Windows platforms and will operate in VST, AAX Native, and AU formats. Please note, you ought to bypass this plug-in before your final export, or else your final mix will have the room processing imbedded in the sound.
HD Headphones Featuring APS Technology
VSX headphones use beryllium hybrid drivers and custom analog tuning to deliver a flat, linear, and detailed response. You'll also experience exceedingly low frequencies thanks to VSX's Acoustically Ported Subsonics (APS), which uses patented technology to harness air pressure and reproduce low-end frequencies with detail. Even without the VSX plug-in, you'll notice details of your mix you wouldn't normally hear on other systems. With the VSX plug-in, the headphones become a blank canvas upon which you can layer the sound of famous studios.
Quality Construction
The headphones themselves are constructed from lightweight beryllium hybrid dynamic drivers to deliver a 20 Hz to 20 kHz frequency range with exceedingly high detail, and an ultra-flat response. Furthermore, the cans use a ported APS construction to ensure an accurate, fast, and present low-end. Coupled with a carefully designed detachable cable, the headphones offer a blank canvas of sorts, through which you can superimpose the sound of famed rooms.
Included Precision Models
  • Sonoma Studio
  • Steven’s Private Mix Room
  • Luxury SUV sound system
  • LA nightclub sound system
  • Four pairs of modeled popular studio headphones
  • Two ultra-flat custom headphone models
  • Additional rooms and speakers available separately
UPC: 850007980238

Steven Slate Audio VSX Specs

Key Specs
Wearing Style
Dual Ear with Headband
Foldable: No
Earpiece Swivel: Yes
Open/Closed-Back
Closed-Back
Impedance
37 Ohms
Active Noise Cancellation
No
Frequency Response
20 Hz to 20 kHz (Wired)
Built-In Mic
No
Audio Connector
1x 1/8" / 3.5 mm TRS
Included Adapter
1/4" TRS
Headphone
Wearing Style
Dual Ear with Headband
Foldable: No
Earpiece Swivel: Yes
Earpiece Design
Over-Ear (Circumaural)
Open/Closed-Back
Closed-Back
Sound Field
Stereo
Driver Type
Dynamic
Impedance
37 Ohms
Active Noise Cancellation
No
Frequency Response
20 Hz to 20 kHz (Wired)
Volume Limiting / Child-Safe
No
Built-In Controls
No
Built-In Mic
No
Connectivity
Audio Connector
1x 1/8" / 3.5 mm TRS
Included Adapter
1/4" TRS
Connector Plating
Gold
Cable Design
Detachable / Straight
Cable Length
6.5' / 2 m
Physical
Color
Black
Packaging Info
Package Weight
2.59 lb
Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
10.1 x 8.4 x 5.3"

Steven Slate Audio VSX Reviews

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Can "Steven Slate VSX Essentials" be ran on a PC ...

Can "Steven Slate VSX Essentials" be ran on a PC or Mac as a standalone software?
Asked by: Ryan
There is now a 'VSX SystemWide' app that can run as standalone software. It is included with the headphones.
Answered by: Brandon
Date published: 2024-11-12

Are these wireless?

Are these wireless?
Asked by: Al
No, the headphones that are included with the Steven Slate Audio VSX Modeling Headphones Essentials Edition system are wired. The included software enables the user to monitor in a variety of acoustically treated environments with an immersive 3D experience that removes mix issues caused by poor room acoustics and limited speaker selection. The VSX offers producers and mixers the ability to produce and mix in virtual models of precisely tuned listening environments, including famous pro mixing and mastering studios. Wireless headphones are typically not used for mixing.
Answered by: Lisa S
Date published: 2023-05-28
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