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good heaphones suggestion?

Archive · 2006 3 old posts

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infuzion ·

Well, I lost my USD

80 headphones somewhere, & need to replace them. I really don't want to spend more than $40, unless they can replace decent near-field monitors (one of my next purchaces in 6 months or so). To be used for DJing, & light audio editing (cueing, rough mixes). Must be comfortable on my shaved head. Would be nice if they can go from open can (handy when DJing) to closed (good at coffee shops). cheers!

stefan ·

If they're supposed to sound good and be used for DJ I cannot recommend the Sennheiser HD200 enough. They're a bit hard to get by these days, but usually you can find them if you look around. Price is in sweden about

00 though. They can also do a decent job while recording since they have very good isolation (which is also good when DJ'ing ofcourse). They are easily driven so most walkman'ish devices have no problems playing loud on them.

The only other headphone I like (whatsoever, almost all headphones suck imho 🙂) is the AKG K240, the gold edition. Bot those go for almost

00 I think.

Yes, I have listened to _lots_ of headphones. I hate buying headphones. It's two full days of walking to all the stores and listening to all the headphones they got. And almost all suck (way too bassy most of the time. I want clarity, not rumble).

No headphones can replace monitors though. You can use them for some things, but if you use them as your main monitoring device, you'll end up doing very strange mixes most of the time. Often they can complement monitor speakers in a good way though, especially for those times when you want to go on making noises in late evenings etc. But avoid doing general mixing (one usually gets the bass, panning and volumes quite messed up).

Sorry, I'm rambling 🙂

cAPSLOCK ·

I agree the HD200s are nice. For the same money I would have a listen to the HD280 Pros too. Between the two I prefer the 280s.

cAPS

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