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What should i be looking for in headphones for mixing? Any particular specs? I have a 30 dollar pair that really ... suck, to say the least. My mixes sound good in them, but then i listen to them in my car, or home stereo and the some of the low freq's are muddy, and the highs are tinny.....

I know i should do a healthy mix between headphones and monitors, but sadly the walls in my building are thin, and a majority of the mixing i do off my laptop is all done on my headhphones. I have limited time with monitored sound.

I think its a worthwhile investment.

Any words of wisdom or reccomendations?
 
Headphones

I may have told this story in another post, but...

More than a year ago I went to Sweetwater to replace my 20 year old AKGs. My sales rep took me into a studio-like room for near field monitors. He popped in a CD that I'm familiar with, adjusted the monitor and headphone volumes, set all controls flat, and allowed me to compare a $1,200.00 pair of monitors with different headphones.

By far, the Sennheiser HD280 Pro set was the most accurate in comparison to the studio monitors. My sales rep acknowledged that he knew I would feel that way. I asked about going a step higher and spending more than $100.00, and he told me that would be overkill.

I'm overjoyed with my headphones. By the way, my rep is Greg Baum. A great guy and a great Cubs fan.
 
I have the akg k701's and they sound amazing. Worth every penny. Great for when my roommate is sleeping and I can't listen to my monitors at reasonable levels for mixing.
 
mix with monitors hard to get by even with the best headphones if yer getting headphones just for the recording aspect to track yer track i would get something that is closed, so you dont leak sound
 
Archiegood said:
I may have told this story in another post, but...

More than a year ago I went to Sweetwater to replace my 20 year old AKGs. My sales rep took me into a studio-like room for near field monitors. He popped in a CD that I'm familiar with, adjusted the monitor and headphone volumes, set all controls flat, and allowed me to compare a $1,200.00 pair of monitors with different headphones.

By far, the Sennheiser HD280 Pro set was the most accurate in comparison to the studio monitors. My sales rep acknowledged that he knew I would feel that way. I asked about going a step higher and spending more than $100.00, and he told me that would be overkill.

I'm overjoyed with my headphones. By the way, my rep is Greg Baum. A great guy and a great Cubs fan.
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I've had the HD280's for a few years now. They sound nice, but are lacking in the lower bass. Headphone.com shows a graph of the HD280's frequency response. You can also test this yourself by listening to a sine wave sweep. There's also a difference in volume between the left and right channels around 4 kHz, which sounds kinda strange during the sine wave sweep.
 
Phuturistic said:
I have the akg k701's and they sound amazing. Worth every penny. Great for when my roommate is sleeping and I can't listen to my monitors at reasonable levels for mixing.
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yes... I agree, the K701 is an excellent headphone. it has a very wide and deep sound field. note it's an open back headphone.
 
so whats a good pair of headphones for just recording, at around the $100-$200 mark, i don't think i'm interested in going at a higher price, i just wanna record with them not pick up dog whistles.........
 
ditto on the Sony 7506. Reasonably priced (~$100), more than reasonable sound.
 
Sennheiser 650's ....... very flat and accurate but not very reasonably priced.
I love mine though.
Note that you can still find the previous models, the 580's and the 600's for much lower prices and they sound very similar. I have two pair of the 590's also although one's about worn out.
 
I've got the Sennheiser HD280 Pros and they are excellent. You can't go wrong for the price. The sound is more "true" than other headphones I've tried.
 
There has been some hyping up of the new Audio Technica ATH-M50's over at Gearslutz. I just received a pair (about $100). My AKG K240's were finally falling apart. I always liked them, but I wanted to try something new. So far, I think the ATH-M50's are a hit. They seem well-balanced.
 
leddy said:
There has been some hyping up of the new Audio Technica ATH-M50's over at Gearslutz. I just received a pair (about $100). My AKG K240's were finally falling apart. I always liked them, but I wanted to try something new. So far, I think the ATH-M50's are a hit. They seem well-balanced.
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so would you say they are better than ya pair of AKG's? just asking because i have no experience whatsoever with the technicalities of headphone usage beyond recording...
 
Sinistah said:
so would you say they are better than ya pair of AKG's? just asking because i have no experience whatsoever with the technicalities of headphone usage beyond recording...
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I've only had them for two days now, but first impression is that the bass on the ATH-M50's is much better. The ATH-M50's are closed, so it's not apples to apples, but there is more bass without it getting boomy. Going back and forth between my monitors (with the sub on) and the cans, it seemed like the bass was just as natural (not hyped) - but better since I still have some room problems I'm working on. The midrange is slightly more detailed to me than the AKG's. The top end seems about the same to me so far.

To be fair to the AKG's, they require a more powerful headphone amp than most cans. I don't have a really good one - so I don't think I was getting 100% of the performance of the AKG's. However, if I can get better performance wihthout dropping $1k on a stinkin' headphone amp...well the decision gets easier.
 
leddy said:
I've only had them for two days now, but first impression is that the bass on the ATH-M50's is much better. The ATH-M50's are closed, so it's not apples to apples, but there is more bass without it getting boomy. Going back and forth between my monitors (with the sub on) and the cans, it seemed like the bass was just as natural (not hyped) - but better since I still have some room problems I'm working on. The midrange is slightly more detailed to me than the AKG's. The top end seems about the same to me so far.

To be fair to the AKG's, they require a more powerful headphone amp than most cans. I don't have a really good one - so I don't think I was getting 100% of the performance of the AKG's. However, if I can get better performance wihthout dropping $1k on a stinkin' headphone amp...well the decision gets easier.
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shit, $1,000 just for some headphone amps..... er... i'll pass! lol! i'll do a lil more research to see what would be beneficial for my needs, i just want something i can do some decent monitoring in via headphones just to make sure my overall product is good for all forms of media, so it could sound good in the phones as well as the systems.....
 
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