Jun 01, 2006 10:15 pm A good all around pair would be the AKG K240m.
The page you linked wouldnt come up but Sennheiser makes some great ones as well.
Mixing head phones
Posted on Jun 01, 2006 09:41 pm
Josh Rose
JR Productions
Member Since: Mar 03, 2005
This morning as I walk downstairs I find that my dog has chewn up my old closed ear headphones. They were nice but i think they were kinda junked. I have about a 100$ budget. I would like the headphones to be my main listening device when mixing, yet I would still be using them for tracking. Anyone have any thoughts?
I was looking at a sennheiser pair (one at the top of this page www.homerecordingconnecti...man=Sennheiser)
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Jun 01, 2006 10:15 pm A good all around pair would be the AKG K240m.
The page you linked wouldnt come up but Sennheiser makes some great ones as well.
Jun 01, 2006 10:39 pm I couldnt get that page either but I bought a Sennheiser pair for $100 and they werent the best. The sound seemed fine but they werent very comfortable. Its like they are trying to crush your head, and my pair had a crackling defect in the left ear so I just returned them and purchased the sony MDR-V600 pair of closed headphones instead for the same price. They sound quite nice to me.
I loved my old Pioneer pair though. They were from the 70's with all metal and leather construction and individual volume knobs on each ear. That pair is a monster with great sound but it fell apart within the last year or so at two joints that happened to be plastic :( ...they still work fine electronically though...lol my friend who composes with me sometimes used to call me princess lea when I used them because they are so big...as you can tell I liked those headphones...ok time to stop talking...
Jun 01, 2006 10:42 pm Oh yeah and the AKG K240m that Noize mentioned seem to be a good value. I even saw a pro studio working with Square Enix using them for their voice actors when they were doing voiceovers.
Jun 01, 2006 10:58 pm Thanks noize and goldenmean. I heard from other reviews that the sennheiser did sometimes have those defects and that it wasn't too comfortable. Ill look into the AKG K240ms.
Jun 01, 2006 11:12 pm No prob, I think that AKG pair would work out for you.
Jun 02, 2006 10:27 am I have the Sennheiser HD-240 Pro, and I love them. I think that they're very comfortable, and they sound great.
My only knock against them is that their mid-low frequency response is pretty weak. the lows are intact, but at around 120Hz-240Hz or so they're attenuated. But other than that, they're very accurate, flat and extremely detailed.
I also have a pair of Sennheisers that are geared more for consumer audio (eH-150). They greatly exaggerate the bass but they're still very comfortable and have good detail, but not nearly as much detail as the HD-240.
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