I hate headphones

flies · Post by **flies** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:05 am

i just got some sennheiser hd595 in the mail yesterday. I wanted something pretty good for use mastering my music. I get a lot of detail out of them. Low level sounds work way better. (this helped me appreciate a franicisco lopez track a little better when i listend yesterday.) The bass response is really good, which is important if you like techno.

Overall, i'm not sure that i could tell the difference between these $175 dollar headphones and a pair of $100 dollar headphones, but they are a marked improvement over my previous pair, $50 dollar audio technicas.

user_19 · Post by **user_19** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:47 pm

ghost trance wrote:I have Grado SR80s and love them.
It's too bad I can't listen outside of my room without annoying others, though.

Sometimes if everyone on the bus is on their cellphone I will have no shame.

user_1363 · Post by **user_1363** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:14 pm

Sennheiser HD 25-SP
sound great, cheap and very durable.

scumtron · Post by **scumtron** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:28 pm

loopy de loop wrote:
ghost trance wrote:I have Grado SR80s and love them.
It's too bad I can't listen outside of my room without annoying others, though.
Sometimes if everyone on the bus is on their cellphone I will have no shame.

Yeah, they are definitely good bus headphones, I don't usually listen to noise in public places though, shame....

user_919 · Post by **user_919** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:30 am

ian-o-town wrote: do any of you get nervous walking around town with high-end headphones? i get the occasional once-over when i'm walking around on certain streets. sucks.

Has Ottawa become exponentially more dangerous since I left in July 2004?

I sometimes do feel a bit uncomfortable with expensive gear in rough areas, but it would generally have to be a pretty major disparity between cost of gear and income level of locals to really freak me out. But even making field recordings in Cambodia didn't make us feel like people were going to jack our stuff.

Little Dwight · Post by **Little Dwight** » Sun May 07, 2006 3:35 pm

these are currently on order for now.

sennheiser px100

i think i'm still considering purchasing another iem or an earbud within the next few months or so. and i suppose i tend to prefer something portable and not too bulky.

flies · Post by **flies** » Sun May 07, 2006 6:01 pm

Little Dwight wrote:these are currently on order for now.

sennheiser px100

i think i'm still considering purchasing another iem or an earbud within the next few months or so. and i suppose i tend to prefer something portable and not too bulky.

i have those too. they're great travel headphones. they sound WAY better than most earbuds (real in-ear headphones aside), plus most earbuds don't really fit in my ears very well, so these are best. The only problem with this pair is that they tend to rattle when they get a lot of bass, which is annoying.

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:33 am

The Sony MDR-V6 and MDR-7506 headphones are pretty much the same and both can be had for under $100 with the V6s being a little cheaper.

They're very popular as studio heaphones because they're pretty accurate and durable and can be run loud.

I've got 2 pairs and I trust them so I'll probably get them in the future if one ever breaks.

If I had to get decent ear buds I'd get some made by Etymotic research http://www.etymotic.com. I have a pair of their ear plugs. Their ear buds are basically ear plugs so they isolate your ear from outside sound better than regular ear buds.

"Noise isolation (34-36 dB) far surpasses that of active noise-canceling earphones"

I'd especially get these if I still commuted on a train in the city. That way I wouldn't have to turn up the volume as loud to compensate for all the outside noise, so I wouldn't go deaf.

Little Dwight · Post by **Little Dwight** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:03 am

hm i'm currenty considering these iem's:

ultimate ears super.fi 3 studio

any poor experiences with ultimate ears products?

user_1449 · Post by **user_1449** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:33 am

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Sony MDR-7506's. They're only like, the most common cans in studio or field recording or film location or.. pretty much any professional audio environment. Cheap (compared to "audiophile" crap), durable, full range, relatively flat response, and therefore a minimum of ear fatigue. They're ubiquitous like a Sure SM58, and for good reason. I use them every day, and so do thousands of pro engineers around the world. You might find "prettier sounding" headphones in this price range, but certainly not more accurate.

user_1449 · Post by **user_1449** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:41 am

The Sony MDR-V6 and MDR-7506

Oops... haha.. I should have read the posts more thoroughly. You did mention the 7506.

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:32 pm

Cryptic Weevil wrote:
The Sony MDR-V6 and MDR-7506
Oops... haha.. I should have read the posts more thoroughly. You did mention the 7506.

that's OK... it needed a picture anyway.

tomentosa · Post by **tomentosa** » Mon May 08, 2006 1:43 pm

my grado sr-80s broke last week
owned em around six years ,sent em back to grado and for 30$ they fixed em up good as new and got em back about 5 days after i sent em.

more than happy to support a small company with that level of customer service.

thou as noted before grados aint good for travellin headphones
but of all the similar headphones within the same price range nothing compares in sound quality.

Little Dwight · Post by **Little Dwight** » Tue May 09, 2006 6:52 am

flies wrote: The only problem with this pair is that they tend to rattle when they get a lot of bass, which is annoying.

this is not promising.

user_1373 · Post by **user_1373** » Tue May 09, 2006 7:51 am

The B&O earbuds with a sort of clip that goes over the ear (can't find pic) are the only in-ears I can wear. Sound OK too. For studio use AKG 241DF or Sennheiser 595...

user_1659 · Post by **user_1659** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:48 am

I love headphones. It makes me think to this french comic guy, Coluche, he said "to get farther, you have to get closer"

user_345 · Post by **user_345** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:16 am

I don't like to put things in my ear

user_1659 · Post by **user_1659** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:57 pm

do you mean even put sounds in your ear... headphones is just a question of distance isnt it?

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:26 pm

slatkin wrote:I don't like to put things in my ear

someone once told me that the bacteria levels in your ears double after wearing headphones for a little bit.

kinda messed up, but i wouldn't doubt it's actually true.

but then, some people have to wear headphones constantly for their living.. radio announcers, those fbi guys in unmarked vans doing surveillance that i see all the time on tv. are their ears OK?