Head Phone Strut (ear gear steeze)
Guantanamo_Jones
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Folks may think this is not very advisable but had been making beats on shitty $20 sony "dynamic stereo headphones" 
I am consistantly broke nowadays, I would save my money and buy a decent pair of headphones but It is hard for me to spend more then $20 in one purchase even though i have broken many pairs of these sony bullshits and comparible models on previose occasions, and because of my roomate situation i need to use headphones a lot. anyways headphones pair #30782 were blown out earlier this evening. taking the lowend completely out of my headgear I have decided that i am going to throw down some duckets sometime early febuary when I should have some extra dolo. any recomendations of decent studio headphones in the under $200 bracket?
I am consistantly broke nowadays, I would save my money and buy a decent pair of headphones but It is hard for me to spend more then $20 in one purchase even though i have broken many pairs of these sony bullshits and comparible models on previose occasions, and because of my roomate situation i need to use headphones a lot. anyways headphones pair #30782 were blown out earlier this evening. taking the lowend completely out of my headgear I have decided that i am going to throw down some duckets sometime early febuary when I should have some extra dolo. any recomendations of decent studio headphones in the under $200 bracket?
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Highly reccomended. I know about 9000 people will shit on this thread with Sony MDR-V6/7506 reccomendations, and I used those for a long time, but they tend to distort easily and "crunch" at the midrange. You hear a lot of detail with them, and they fit well, but my ears get really tired listening to them, and they self-compress in a way that makes you keep turning the volume up until it gets harsh.
Other than that the Sennheiser SP-25s are a staple among lots of DJs, particularly in the UK. The AKG 240s has been the studio standard for years.
i admittedly am not a well informed gear junky...yet
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They were Sennheisers and sounded awfully terrible with a high amount of ear fatigue.
I went to the store and exchanged them for a pair of Beyer Dynamic DT-990s.
The padding on the ears is so soft, and the sound is nice and even, no meanass membrane-stabbing boosted freqs...
These run at about $ 140 and are more for a home/mixing/recording purpose.
But they work great regardless...
I hear nice things about AKG headphones, but I hate them to death since the cups are tiny and after like 2 hrs of headphonery your ears feel like they had just been injected with a cracklike form of botox.
So, if you got big ears, give those beyer dynamics a test run!
Sennheiser is a good brand and their Headphones are pretty neat esp if you need something fixed since almost every part is exchangable - still I just couldnt stand the sound - too plastic
you gotta school me on headphone amps now... i am curiose and
The simplest explaination is that just like you need a good amplifier to make any loudspeakers sound good, the same holds true for headphones. Nicer headphones usually have a higher impedence, meaning they are harder for an amplifier to power, so often times a super expenisive pair of headphones like Sennheiser 580s or 600s will sound like shit coming out of an iPod or even a nice soundcard.
In the headphone amp world, there are basically 3 options. 1) Build your own Cmoy amp in an altoids tin. Not too hard, and will cost you about $40 for parts for a nice one. They sound great. 2) Get one of the inexpensive Headroom models, like the Total Airhead. These also have a crossfeed to counteract the fact that when you listen to things in the real world, you hear them in both ears, even if an instrument is panned 100% to one side. The crossfeed is time-delayed in a way that mimics real hearing, and makes headphones sound more natural. 3) Buy another brand of headphone amplifier, which will probably cost you oodles and not sound as good as Headroom stuff.
That's the lowdown.
I got the Sennheiser PX 100's for like $30 and they are great. They are comfortable and they sound good without making me look like an air traffic controller.
I've also used the AKG240s extensively, which is what they have at my radio station. They also have pretty good sound, although I haven't compared them directly to the Grado head to head--that and we usually listen to the air signal in the studio which means the audio is compressed-limited-expanded to death in the air chain so the fidelity of the headphones is not a big issue. They are more comfortable than the Grados, they filter out more outside sound, and considering that they stand up to a fair amount of abuse in a college radio environment, I can say they're reasonably tough.
i just creamed my pants and drewled a little.
not only the sony's are made of plastic which I've had friends go through em like toliet paper cause they break so easily. I own em, love em, and wouldnt mind a pair of Ultrasone's or an AKG 240.
those are my shit! i love 'em
now all i need is a chair like this
nestled next to something cozy like this
enjoying some of this
while perched on a rug made of these
and now alllll you need is this......
Do you mean RP-DJ1200s? I think the SH-DJ1200 is a mixer unless my googling led me astray.
woops, yeah the RP joints. HOT....
peace.
and now alllll you need is this......
no thanks.
i'm fine with my lemonaaaade....
that cool, refreshing drink.
Did yours have any kind of paperwork in the package? All mine had was instructions for the little shelf-thing that it comes with.
das all dat came wit dem.