Headphones for the day job

i got some shure e4's for xmas and so far their pretty rocking, need a little boost in the low end, but apart from that, they are really clear and defined, might even be good for a bit of mixing
 
genius, i suggest Sennheiser PX-100's. i carry mine everywhere in the handy little case.. and they sound great. funny story.. i was out having drinks in the Village in NYC with our Sneap, Bori from Blabbermouth, and Monte Conner from Roadrunner the other week...Monte spoke up that he wanted to hear a particular song from one of the bands i've recently produced, so i whip out my iPod and my PX-100's. now Monte has been using the same headphones to judge recording for 20 years... has never found another model he likes at all, but right away he spoke up about the headphones (and the production ;) ) and wanted to know where he could get some. i promised to send a link to where he could order them online as soon as i got home to Flordia. ok, so earlier that same day, me and Andy had dropped by the legendary Sterling Sound Mastering facilities and had hung out and chatted with Ted Jensen...but not once did i pull out my headphones, and we never discussed headphones at all. But, when i get home and opened my email program to send Monte the link to buy the headphones there was already an email from Monte waiting for me. it said: "hey, you'll never believe this... Ten Jensen from Sterling Sound just gave me a Xmas gift... a set of Sennheiser PX-100's". Truth is stranger than fiction... and i was happy to know that my choice of small profile headphones was the same as Ted Jensen's, one the most reknowned mastering engineers working today.

they are comfortable to wear for long periods too.. nice little padding on the frame where they sit on your head. another story: the girlfriend of one of my recent clients works for Cartoon Netowork, animating on various shows for the Adult Swim section, most notably Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies... she was having trouble finding small headphones that both sounded good and were comfortable to wear the entire work day... she also tried my PX-100's and was sold. check them out here.

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I just thought I'd chime in, Headphone.com gives the cans Mr. Murphy suggested a 5 out of 5.

http://www.headphone.com/products/headphones/all-headphones/

Now I'm kind of curious to how they sound!
I have a pair of Beyerdynamic DT-770's, I like them...Not really for portable though they need a lot of power. Really fun to listen to music with, movies too.
Also AKG K240DF which I don't really use that much and are really quiet being 600ohms. So not good for portable either.

I had a paid of Senn HD280 Pro's and they're great for attenuating outside noise and sound pretty good, they got stolen though. Used them for travelling all the time. And I have some Fostex TR20RP's somewhere... I used to be really big into headphones a while back... I even have a DIY portable headphone amplifier for my Beyerdynamics and AKG's... It's probably bigger than my portable CD Player haha
 
Old thread, I know.. but I have a question to the PX 100 users. Can they handle high volume or do the start to distort the signal pretty early?
I'm thinking about buying one and re-build them into a noiseprotecion headphone for drummers and studio work in general.
 
well my px-200's can't handle high volume before farting out, dont know if the 100's are the same, but i assume they might be cos i think they have the same drivers in them
 
cobhc said:
well my px-200's can't handle high volume before farting out, dont know if the 100's are the same, but i assume they might be cos i think they have the same drivers in them
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sorry, bad assumption. the PX-100's and 200's are quite different... it's already been covered in this thread that the 200's suck and the 100's are the way to go.

anyway, quick question exactly how loud are you talking? you should never crank headphones very loud.... that's one of the quickest shortcuts to ear damage/hearing loss i can think of. believe me, the 100's get more than loud enough without distorting.... if they are "farting out" on your mixes, then you have waaaay to much low end going on.
 
TheStoryteller said:
I've been looking for a pair of reasonably cheap headphones, to be used for both listening to music home & at work, and also as a complement to my monitors when mixing. Maybe those PX-100 would be a good solution for me as well?
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that's what we've been saying here... it was the whole point of the thread even. :)
 
James Murphy said:
anyway, quick question exactly how loud are you talking? you should never crank headphones very loud.... that's one of the quickest shortcuts to ear damage/hearing loss i can think of. believe me, the 100's get more than loud enough without distorting.... if they are "farting out" on your mixes, then you have waaaay to much low end going on.
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Hey James,
thanks for answering. I know that you can get ear damage very fast with headphones. I don't hear very loud with headphones, but some singers I recorded don't hear themselfes when they are singing loud and they want it pretty loud at times. They say they just hear themselves thorugh their head and not through the headphones.
But I think with the isolated noiseprotection around them, it's maybe easier to seperate it. Ok, I'll buy this thing.
 
As a quick note...the major retail chain Target carries Sennheiser gear, and they have PX100's most of the time. Sometimes you can catch them on sale there if you keep an eye out.
 
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