lo chaps so me best mates crappy technics 1980's headphones have given up the ghost so i need to find a good set of headphones for music/dvd/music production for round £30-50 mark i have no idea who is good now-a-days...ohh and he said that foldable one would be nice also?? let me kno guys! thanks
if your talking production then i would personally raise the budget a bit. also you wont want/need folding headphone for production. look into beyerdynamic, sennheiser
NO frank NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...even i know that those phones are abosolute rubbish for anything. @ dom_:he's not a profisional at productiong..just amature stuff...any suggestions on what models of cans i should be looking for?? i was looking at the "HD" series of seinheizers?? any good?
with the hd the 595, 600 and 650 are prob the only ones worth getting im afraid. not cheap. but worth the money! as for other makes like beyer etc. not my thing so i dont know much about them.
I'll just post this lot again, seeing as it's still relevant... Really depends what you want in a can. Questions to ask yourself: Open or closed? Open cans generally sound better for their price, but they won't give you isolation and might annoy people around you. Grados, for example, are notorious for leakage, my SR225s basically sound as loud whichever way round the cups are swivelled, it's like mini laptop speakers stuck to the outside of them Closed cans will give you more isolation, and won't leak much if at all, but you do sacrifice some sound quality in most cases. Comfort? How important is comfort to you? Are you going to be wearing these for long periods of time, and will it bother you overly much to have something that doesn't feel like pillows on your ears? Circumaural (the pad goes fully around the ear) headphones are generally more comfortable than supraaural (the pad sits on the ear) ones, though it depends on what the pads are made of. Portability? Do you need to carry these cans around, or use them on the move? Under this heading also comes the question of type of can - I'd assume you're looking for something full-size, but there are also canalphones, earbuds and clip-ons to consider (though you pay for portability with sound quality, unless you're willing to spend). What are you going to be using them for? There are cans which excel for music but if you wanted them primarily for games and movies there are better choices out there, and vice versa. Does music take precedence over being able to pinpoint enemies in games or hearing bullets whizz around you in the Matrix? What do you listen to? There are distinctive "house sounds" to the different headphone manufacturers' ranges, and they each excel in different genres/styles of music - it all depends what you want out of your headphones. A can that will knock your socks off with rock music just might not have the refinement for classical or jazz, and might be too unbalanced for electronica. What music you listen to should play a large part in your choice, if you'll be using these headphones for music. What do you like to hear most in your music? Closely related to the above, different cans emphasise different things in music - there are very few neutral headphones. So do you like lots of bass, lush mids, or detailed highs? Budget - you've already covered this, but is there a headphone amp in your future? If not that'll cut down some on your choices, some headphones really need proper amping to shine where others are great without and even better with. Think that's about it, answer those questions and it'll be a lot easier to recommend stuff TBH your really rather small budget precludes an amp and most of the decent headphones I could recommend, but see how you go with the questions above and there might be something just about right for you Only thing I can tell straight off is that for music production you'll probably be wanting something reasonably neutral - something that usually doesn't come cheap, most cheap headphones are heavily bass-weighted to make them sound "better" to consumers.
I was very impressed by the bose tri-port headphones. Very lightweight and very good sound. They are $150. I compared them directly to several different sony headphone sets at about the same price +/- $30 and prefered the tri-ports to any of the sony headphones. (They do not fold)
of all the bose products their headphones are some of the worst. and comparing them to sony cans??? which ones because they make some pap ones too. but some goodish ones i admit. and: "They give great isolation from outside noise! So much so I can really hear the detail of that great one note bass over and over................ OH man I love that one note!" is something said on these bose cans. and... they are often compared to products 1/3 there price for comparisons edit: "I agree, in all seriousness, the SR60's in the real world will smack the Triports like a bratty little chump that totally had it coming- I have a pair, and for my money, they are worth far more than the $69 I paid for them. See the Grado SR60 appreciation thread for more on that." taken from a well known forum specifically for headphones. need i say more?
Well, the Tri-Ports aren't that bad... If they cut the price down to $30, I think they could give the Koss PortaPros a run for their money.
I see a lot of people raving about the grados. Will they be suitabel for what i am looking for? I don't like a lot of base but i'd like some decent clarity. My current panasonics for example whine (hurts my ears) when playing not loud but 'high' music. Essentially i want them to be comfortable, not a lot of bass and good clarity. I'd like them for a Uk equavalent of $69 that dom got them for as well but i think thats going too far.
Try Alessandro MS-1s - They are $30 more than the SR-60s in the US, but I don't think they mark them up in Europe as much. Supposedly they're a smoother SR-125.
I can vouch for the grados when it comes to clarity. They're not over bassy, and seem quite efficient with power consumtion. I have a pair of sr-80's and love them to bits. Ran them side by side with the best pair of sony's at their new york showroom ( ~$200 ) and the grado's stomped all over them. Just don't walk into a library with them on
