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can someone reccomend me some good high end headphones? I had some Bose Triport which are extremely comfortable but the sound doesn't seem as clear as it should so i've sold them on ebay. Budget is about £80, most of my listening will be with an ipod, do i need an amp to get the best sound? |
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in ear or big ones |
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not in ear, proper over the ear headphones... for serious home listening, already have sennheiser px 100 for use outside and at the gym. looking at some of the high end sennheiser ones, look good but have no idea if i need a mini amp for them |
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ceri's your man! :) |
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Buy the most expensive ones in the shop. I need an anal humidifier. |
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sennheiser hd25 |
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grado sr-80 seems to get excellent reviews, would i need a mini amp for the ipod? does that increase just the output volume or does it have an effect on sound quality as well? |
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Using an ipod will affect the quality. |
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its a 5th gen ipod, supposed to have the best sound quality output so far... |
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grados are a practice in pain managment. No padding on the head. Flimsy design. Sound nice, but crap build. Get something else. |
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These seem great |
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damn headphone amps are more expensive than the headphones!! |
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I'm an AKG240s man myself. Those things rock like no-ones bizznizz. I got them from here: http://www.nusystems.co.uk/product/AKG.K240.Studio as they were like £60 cheaper than the RRP, and about £20 less than anywhere else I found on the net |
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(screwed up the link, try ) |
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Grado covers the instrument sound range with excellent clarity but I don't think they have much for bass response. I have listened to SR-80's and you won't be getting any thumping bass out of those. They easier to drive and therefore are good for portables. I was really impressed with the transparency though, it was like sound out of thin air. I'd like to try their best ones, RS-1 and see what that's like, but they are into the 'too expensive range' for me ($700). Bose really are pieces of shit though. I saw them and thought $150 for THAT? It's basically the cheapest plastic headband (like you would find on the headphones that come with your 1997 discman) with two plastic cups that pretty much look like a mingy caricature of larger headphones. |
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i'm interested why aesthetics are important when purchasing headphones |
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I was referring to build quality when talking about how they look. Also comfort. |
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Because 99% of ipod-youth wear overhead headphones outside, not because of the sound quality and in spite of the fact that they make you oblivious to traffic etc. purely because they look cool. Or so they think. It's hilarious seeing someone with £100+ headphones plugged into an mp3 player. Even if it's the best sound quality they've ever done, it's still mp3s your playing. The headphones are still utter overkill. And they invariably sound rubbish with devices like that (I imagine there's not the same drive of the current as an amp/hi-fi would have); even worse than £20 in ear bud headphones. That's not to say I've never done it. I've played a GBA with HD25s on. It just sounded awful. |
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couldn't agree more on that one... : ) |
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Oh yeah that's another point I forgot when writing my post last night. Getting better headphones, if you're just listening to mp3's on a portable device, will probably just make them sound more obviously mp3. One way to tell if you need more amplification is by looking at the headphones impedence I think. More ohms=more resistance. Grado's are very low impedence (32 ohm), the Sennheisers I have are 300ohm, they are not very loud at my mp3 player's max volume. |
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Yep. Better headphones sound worse as the clarity makes the digital nature of the sound all the more clear. Cheaper hedphones and the resultant "smoothing" of the sound doesn't give as true a representation of the actual sound of the mp3, but it certainly sounds better. |
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Mine were $14 and they're ace compared to my blown out car speakers |
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Buy Sennheiser's HD 485. 32 Ohms and sound quality way over what you would except for the price. |
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yeah but if those mp3's are 320 vrb aac files then 99% of people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between that and the cd. But yeah in general mp3's are lob bitrate and shit quality. I always rip at the highest quality i can, next best to lossless files (wouldn't all fit on my ipod!) as for the ipod built in amp, well thats why i'm looking for a mini amp to power the Grado's, which should up the quality as well. |
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lob=low |
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i recently purchased the seinheiser mdx500 earphones on your recommendation. i wanted to say, they sound damn good for a $20 pair of earphones. damn fucking ass good ass good i'd say. |
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sorry thats 'mx500' |
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"Yep. Better headphones sound worse as the clarity makes the digital nature of the sound all the more clear." True 'dat. I never realised what a monstrosity my internal sound card was until I picked up my AKG's. I also had to re-encode my CD collection as I could pick up the compression artifacts.... |
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