Studio Headphones Bose vs Beats by Dr Dre

[Captnawesomee]

When recording and producing i want a really good sound when previewing my work or other music which of these two is worth the $300 ? for studio recording use?

Bose® - QuietComfort® 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® Headphones

vs

Beats By Dr. Dre - Monster Studio High-Definition Over-the-Ear Headphones



I kinda like Beats By Dr. Dre more but what do you guys think is better?

 

[FunkDaddy]

Lol. You realize the $300 for Dr. Dre's headphones is mostly because of his name being stamped on them right?

When you're at that price level...why not invest in a decent pair of monitors?

 

[John Willett]

When recording and producing i want a really good sound when previewing my work or other music which of these two is worth the $300 ? for studio recording use?

Bose® - QuietComfort® 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® Headphones

vs

Beats By Dr. Dre - Monster Studio High-Definition Over-the-Ear Headphones



I kinda like Beats By Dr. Dre more but what do you guys think is better?

Neither of these are really suitable for what you want to do.

Noise-cancelling headphones are really not very good for critical monitoring.

Do you want open or closed headphones?

Open are best for mixing and editing, but are open and sound can leak both out and in.

Closed are best for tracking and recording on the move in a noisy environment.

As I'm in Europe I don't know $ prices.

But for open monitors the Sennheiser HD 600 & 650 and AKG K701 & 702 seem to be the most popular and trusted in the middle price category.

For tracking (closed cans) the HD 215 is a good inexpensive unit and the HD 25-1 II is the industry standard in Europe for location recording.

Also look at Beyer headphones as they also are good in this area.

I hope this helps.

 

[stevieb]

Lol. You realize the $300 for Dr. Dre's headphones is mostly because of his name being stamped on them right?

So true, so true. Also equally true of Dr. Boze's name artificially jacking up the price of those 'phones.

You can get a pair of the industry-standard Shure 'phones for $100 at Sam Ash and such. They folks there can tell you what model it is, i forget.

But if you want to spend $200 on a title (earned or not,) hey, who am I to stop you?

 

[kcearl]

i have Bose headphones...i love them on a journey listening to my mp3's or watching a movie...i hate them for anything else

for nearly a third of the price my ATH-M40fs blow them away for any recording stuff...i was going to spend a fortune on some studio phones and thought wtf, ill give these a try, nothing to lose..im glad i did

 

[kcearl]

they suck on my mp3 player though

 

[Armistice]

When recording and producing i want a really good sound when previewing my work or other music

No, you want a really accurate sound.

There are many different headphones around. Why did you pick these two?

You're looking in the wrong place. What the other posters are saying is the truth. Heed them...

Luck.

 

[Farview]

Anything that bose makes is not suitable for any recording job. Most of their products have active circuitry that trys to make everything you play through them sound good, whether it does or not. That's a great concept for pleasure listening, but when you are recording, you want to know if something sounds bad...that's why you are listening to it.

If you are in the $300 price range, why wouldn't you look at Grado's? Sony 7506's are somewhat of a studio standard.

 

[buzzard bass]

Amazon still has the Audio Technica studio phones, ATM M40fs, for 55 bucks, they seem nice to me, specifically designed for flat response and mixing and monitoring.