[vorbis] OT: good headphones?

[Barry Short]

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On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:46 pm, you wrote:
> What should I expect
> to pay for a decent pair of headphones?  Any brands to avoid?  I'd be using
> these for mixing multitrack recordings and editing CD audio, not for
> general music listening. I like to buy quality products, but price is
> somewhat of a factor.
>

If you're going to be mixing with them you need real monitoring headphones. 
While the likes of Sennheiser HD600 are really fabulous sounding headphones 
they do favourably colour the sound, which is no good if your recording or 
mixing. Bayer-Dynamic's DT range of headphones have a cleaner, truer response 
than the Sennheisers. The DT150 and DT250 are found in recording studios 
everywhere. I'm currently using a pair of DT770s and they are really 
excellent solid headphones. They're not modular like the DT150s (so you can't 
buy replacement components for them) and the bass responce is a touch heavier 
than expected, but if you monitor at high levels they do not distort... ever. 
They are closed back and so have excellent isolation from outside noise. I 
bought mine for around £120, so I would expect to pay $200 or so stateside.   

Barry

   
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Barry Short
Research Assistant
Centre for Music Technology
University of Glasgow
+44 (0)141 330 5740
B.Short at elec.gla.ac.uk

"If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs, 
 perhaps you haven't quite grasped the gravity of the situation."
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