Headphones

Using the Audio Technica MTH50's....very nice and flat but hurt my ears after a couple hours. About to get the Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro's....figure since I'm forced to wear phones most of the time, I might as well get the best I can afford.

jimmie wrote:I've used Beyerdynamic DT250's for years, but I haven't compared them to any other cans so can't really comment. I use them for long periods comfortably.

I got DT250's and they are lovely to wear & stuff sounds great in them. But when it comes to mixdowns n monitoring, stuff came out sounding all wrong.

The best sounding H/phones I've tried so far have been the Sen HD25 and know someone who's done a bit of mixing thru them & got really good results.

I think if I could do a straight swap with the HD25's for my DT250's I'd do it for making music. But for listening for enjoyment the DT250's

Just got some hd280s for 50.00 from someone, so far they sound good.flat but has a nice bass response.

I use the Aiaiai TMA-1 DJ headphones. Has anyone tried these??
the low end response on these are like none ive ever heard, and built well.
They also have monitor headphones. They were recommended to me from a trusty friend and i can definetely recommend them to anyone looking for a solid headphone, thats slightly cheaper than the top competition



http://www.aiaiai.dk/

the Aaaiai is the Young Guru range yeah> (production headphones?)

people will laugh at this, but i SWEAR by them....




used them for over 4 years, got them free with some booze, always revert back to checking mixes on them, very flat, comfortable. could wear all day and not notice

if i buy a pair, it will be the young guru monitoring headphones.

Young guru has a special edition monitoring headdphone with them, but it's not his company.
They are based out in Denmark

What are those headphones Tom??? Looks like it says canadian club on them lol

I been usin the Sennheiser HD 600's for over a year now.....love them. You will need a headphone amp, but they are very flat. A lot of headphones notch out from like 1800-2500 (threshold of pain), and these do not. This means that they translate pretty well, for mixing on headphones, to other sound systems. Even when I am mixing on monitors, I always check things like my reverb send levels in these just to make sure.

mindcontrol wrote:Young guru has a special edition monitoring headdphone with them, but it's not his company.
They are based out in Denmark

What are those headphones Tom??? Looks like it says canadian club on them lol

they are indeed canadian club promotional headphones.

I used them for around 2 years purely listening to music all day at work, by the time i started checking mixes on them they just sounded awesome.

+1 for the HD600!
All day errday! but really, these are so comfortable you can wear em all day

I'll always swear by the m50s...

I find them totally comfortable, I'll wear them many hours on end. I've got quite a large head, so perhaps that has to do with it.

And the sound is great, super clean on the whole audio range.

no none mentioned the beat by dre.

lol

i wore them once, felt like i had a small child sitting on my head. got a headache after an hour from the weight of them alone

peeping tom wrote:no none mentioned the beat by dre.

lol

i wore them once, felt like i had a small child sitting on my head. got a headache after an hour from the weight of them alone

they sound like complete ass too

sirparksalot wrote:A lot of headphones notch out from like 1800-2500 (threshold of pain)

WTF is this threshold of pain at 1800-2500 Hz?

Any threshold of pain is going to be related to a particular sound pressure level, not a particular frequency.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Acoustics/ ... aring/Pain

The threshold of pain is the SPL beyond which sound becomes unbearable for a human listener. This threshold varies only slightly with frequency. Prolonged exposure to sound pressure levels in excess of the threshold of pain can cause physical damage, potentially leading to hearing impairment.

Different values for the threshold of pain:

Threshold of pain

SPL sound pressure

120 dBSPL 20 Pa
130 dBSPL 63 Pa
134 dBSPL 100 Pa
137.5 dBSPL 150 Pa
140 dBSPL 200 Pa

SimonInAustralia wrote:

sirparksalot wrote:A lot of headphones notch out from like 1800-2500 (threshold of pain)

WTF is this threshold of pain at 1800-2500 Hz?

Any threshold of pain is going to be related to a particular sound pressure level, not a particular frequency.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Acoustics/ ... aring/Pain

The threshold of pain is the SPL beyond which sound becomes unbearable for a human listener. This threshold varies only slightly with frequency. Prolonged exposure to sound pressure levels in excess of the threshold of pain can cause physical damage, potentially leading to hearing impairment.

Different values for the threshold of pain:

Threshold of pain

SPL sound pressure

120 dBSPL 20 Pa
130 dBSPL 63 Pa
134 dBSPL 100 Pa
137.5 dBSPL 150 Pa
140 dBSPL 200 Pa

you're right, what he mentioned isn't the "threshold of pain".

The human ear, though, does resonate around 1800-2500Hz or so, making those sometimes the harshest frequencies to hear, so I guess some headphones might dampen that some. I've never heard of that, but it makes sense I guess.

sciguy wrote:The human ear, though, does resonate around 1800-2500Hz or so, making those sometimes the harshest frequencies to hear

I have read that the human ear is highly sensitive to frequencies between 500 Hz and 6 kHz, compared to the frequencies above and below that range, but have not heard of the resonance you mention.