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Coursedesign wrote on 5/12/2008, 1:47 PM
What are you looking to do?

What's your budget?

If you want to listen for sound problems in your recordings, the classic is Sony 7506, because they are very revealing. If anything is off even the slightest, it will sound bad enough to be noticed.

If you want to just listen to music at night, those cans would be far down on the list.
rsp wrote on 5/12/2008, 1:56 PM
Thanks! Yes it's for checking audio projects from both Soundforge and Vegas
Is that the Sony mdr-7506? I can find these for € 130,00
craftech wrote on 5/12/2008, 3:58 PM
Thanks! Yes it's for checking audio projects from both Soundforge and Vegas
Is that the Sony mdr-7506? I can find these for € 130,00
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That's way overpriced (around $200 USD). I hate mine as I explained to Jay.

John
Coursedesign wrote on 5/12/2008, 4:49 PM
Yes, the MDR-7506.

They're not meant to sound good.

They are designed to be revealing above all else.

If you want much more comfortable cans that have better sound and better isolation, get the Sennheiser HD 280 PRO, very popular on European movie sets.

They're about $100 MSLP here, i.e. about the same as the Sony cans.
auggybendoggy wrote on 5/12/2008, 9:43 PM
I love my Audio Technicas ATH-M50. Great phones for a good price.
I got mine for 80 us bucks!
Cliff Etzel wrote on 5/13/2008, 8:35 AM
I recently got to try a pair of AKG K-44 headphones and I was amazed at the sound quality for the price - they've now been replaced by the K-55's but the price is very reasonable - $22.00 via B&H.

Cliff Etzel - Solo Video Journalist
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rs170a wrote on 5/13/2008, 10:13 AM
They're not meant to sound good.

Exactly!!
I had a look through the RAMPS (rec.arts.movies.production.sound - the folks who record audio on feature films) newsgroup and here were some of their headphone recommendations:
Beyer DT48E
Ultrasone 650
Sennheiser HD25

Mike
rsp wrote on 5/13/2008, 11:50 AM
Thanks for the advice.
Will try and, if possible, listen to some of the mentioned ones.
Overall prices of the mentioned headphones appear to be higher in Euroland... especially compared to the low $
deusx wrote on 5/13/2008, 12:27 PM
>>They're not meant to sound good.<<<

Lame excuse for bad headphones.

Stick with Sennheisers. I still use old HD250 ( these are closer to $200, not to be confused with the new cheap eh250 ).

Sound fantabulous and very accurate. Sony has always had crap headphones with too much harshnes at high end. That's why they don't sound good, not because they were not meant to sound good.

Accurate headphones will sound great when you listen to songs that were recorded the right way. Accuracy and great sound are not mutually exclusive. Isn't the very reason you want accurate headphones, so you can make your sound, sound good. If they weren't meant to sound good, how would you ever know when you actually sounded good. It makes no sense.

And yes, you need to spend at least $120 - $200 if you want accurate and good sounding headphones.

I personally also like AKG 240, and a lot of profesional musicians use them, but they do color the sound a bit. Not as accurate as abovementioned Sennheisers
Coursedesign wrote on 5/13/2008, 9:35 PM
I agree with most of what you say, but sometimes when I'm really really busy on a shoot, I appreciate wearing headphones that exaggerate any sound problem to the point of making me consider screaming, "Nurse, more morphine please!"

Then I remember that I just need to fix the problem to make the pain go away.

:O)

(But really.)