Wired headphones - indoor use only - about £100. Recs please.

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Amanda P

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Anything made by Sennheiser is good; the more you pay, the more quality you get. For some reason they're invariably 'guest' headphones in radio studios.

Sound pros in the field often tend to use Sony MDR7506s (or whatever the current equivalent model number is). They do sound great.

Neither of these options is trendy, though.
 
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GrumpyGregry

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Anything made by Sennheiser is good; the more you pay, the more quality you get. For some reason they're invariably 'guest' headphones in radio studios.

Sound pros in the field often tend to use Sony MDR7506s (or whatever the current equivalent model number is). They do sound great.

Neither of these options is trendy, though.
Neither am I ;)
 

ColinJ

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I quite like my Audio Technica ATH-M40X available there on Amazon for £89. They aren't perfect but the sound suits me and I find them comfortable. They come with a long straight lead and a long curly lead. If they were to be used on the move then you could probably swap to a shorter lead. (The leads use a secure locking plug to connect into one of the, er, 'earpieces' and official Audio Technica and other compatible leads are readily available.)
 
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Grado's have a sort of cult following.

TBH the entry level SR60 and 80's need a few easy mods to generate a bit more bass etc - google Grado mods.

Also look at Samson SR850's or Superlux HD681 etc if you fancy a cheap but good sounding Chinese phones.(circa £25-30).

Ideally you want open back if you are listening indoors- they give a greater soundstage.
 
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crazyjoe101

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I use Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro's which can be had fora touch over £100. They are bulletproof, I find them comfortable to wear and pleasant to listen to, they are slightly trebble biased but not shrill and provide nice accurate bass and mid, nice all-round.

They are closed headphones though which means they let less sound in, and less out and suffer from a smaller soundstage but not terribly so to my ears. I prefer closed to get rid of any other noise that might be going on.
 

raleighnut

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I'd go for Sennheiser, I used to have a 'big' pair but flogged em when I changed to my QUAD pre-power set up in 1986 (no headphone socket)

Nowadays I've got a pair of the PX 100 for listening to my Walkman (Minidisc)
 
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GrumpyGregry

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All very helpful, many thanks.

tlh has already told me I was playing Mahler too loud last night. Which is funny given she had no problem with The Cure at higher volume....
 

Venod

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I have some Sennheiser that are still going strong after many years of use, I also have a pair of Sony noise cancelling headphones which are good when Mrs Afnug insists on watching some soap crap.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I have owned 2 different types of Sennheiser headphones in the past, both being open-backed 'on-ear' rather than 'in-ear' or 'round-ear'. I liked both of them and found them comfortable to wear for long periods of time. They were just a little light at the bass end of the spectrum though and eventually they developed cable faults. One pair had a detachable cable so that wasn't hard to repair but then one of the capsules developed a buzzing sound so it was time to scrap them. The second pair had a captive cable which eventually failed. I took out a faulty length of cable and got the phones working again. The cable eventually failed again so I decided to treat myself to a new set.

This time I went for my Audio Technicas. I like the fact that the cable is easily replaceable/swappable. I usually prefer a straight cable but there are times when a curly cable is more convenient to keep the cable out of harms way. The extended bass response suits the kind of music I like without sounding excessively boomy on speech. There is enough treble for me at the other end of the audio spectrum, but as I mentioned in another thread today, my hearing is pretty awful at high frequencies so it isn't really any use asking me what they sound like there!
 
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