Dj Headphones
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FRANKB replied on Fri Oct 7, 2005 @ 11:17pm |
 Coolness: 103310 | hey im trying to buy headphones for mixing and my studio.
id like to know from any of you dj's if these are good enough..if not....anything to suggest below 180? thx [ www.moogaudio.com ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Sat Oct 8, 2005 @ 5:42am |
 Coolness: 153030 | I've had that specific model for a couple of months until one side fell off - something was wrong with the thing that attaches the cup to the body. I dunno.
Anyhow... they changed the model to this one now: 
Any differences?! none that I know of... I really like them. Has a cool low & high freq chooser option that I sometimes forget to use when trying to mix a tricky choon. Is it comfortable? Yes and no. The material is really comfortable but my ears tend to get freaken smashed to the side of my head if you wear them for hours. But when I say hours... I'm really talking HOURS. Quality/Price: Would definetly get an other pair once these die. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Sat Oct 8, 2005 @ 6:29am |
 Coolness: 299300 | cheapest is best. You WILL destroy them |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Sat Oct 8, 2005 @ 3:26pm |
 Coolness: 48430 | i like to wear empty cans with strings attached to him and pretend i am cool. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» soyfunk replied on Sat Oct 8, 2005 @ 10:44pm |
 Coolness: 126745 | how do you ensure the string from the cans to the needle is always taught? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» No_Comply replied on Sun Oct 9, 2005 @ 5:28pm |
 Coolness: 84910 | its an elastic |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» The_KoNE replied on Mon Oct 10, 2005 @ 12:51am |
 Coolness: 34380 | You could look into the sony DJ line. I hear a couple of pro DJs in Montreal use Sonys (DJ Mini for example). I use super hi-end studio headphones (MDR-7509, had a deal for a used pair) for mastering and everyday listening but that's not exactly what I guess you're about to do. If you plan to mix in your basement, look for sturdiness (you'll sit on them for SURE) and sound quality (flat is good, unless it tires you.). If you're doing live, you'll be looking for sound insulation and ability to be driven loud. (for example, the Fostex T-40 are for sale at MediaMusique [ www.mediamusique.com ] for something like 120-140. But they're hard to drive and not quite DJ-style.) By the way, loud have to be louder than those huuuuge boxes filling the hundreds of cubic feet with barely bearable loud sound.
You could look over at [ Head-Fi.Org ] , they're THE headphones specialists and are quite friendly. Their archive is also quite $%?*ing extensive, complete, and pertinent to heaphone interested people of all levels. One good tip : Don't hesitate to go to places and TRY some pairs, and a lot of them, and for a LONG time. There's plenty of places selling good headphones. There's Steeve's Music Store at métro place d'armes (yes that old guy looks scary but he's actually quite nice when you get used to him. I've sat for hours trying the sony 7509s and 06s on that marantz cd player and the guy was real cool about it.) There's MediaMusique, not quite a DJs store but the salesman is really nice. There's Italmelody, good place but I don't get to go there often. Archambault Music is a cool place to ask questions and try stuff, look at things, BUT IT'S NOT A REAL PLACE. IT'S FISHER PRICE. If you're planning sonys, don't go to la maison sony, they're stuffed up morons and sell four times the price.) Look around, and bring a lot of different CDs. Jazz, techno, electro, pop, rock. Piano and Rhodes (or EP) tracks are the most revelant for headphone performance. So : Look around Try, try, try, don't be shy Carry plenty of CDs Quote from I don't remember where (probably the demotivators office posters things) : «There's no stupid question, but only a lot of inquisitive morons.» ;) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Mon Oct 10, 2005 @ 1:12am |
 Coolness: 201200 | Get anything that is strong, comfortable, with good sound isolation, and not too expensive cause they will get broken/stolen if you play a lot. It's hard to say which headphones are good/flat because the sound of headphones depends on how they sit on your head, some brands might be hard to deal with.. I find sony DJ style headphones particularly painful on my head while other people swear by them, so it depends... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» The_KoNE replied on Mon Oct 10, 2005 @ 1:23am |
| Coolness: 34380 | Sony are really touchy. Not all of what they make is good but when they make it good it no cool thing but a real worktool. For example, anything under the 7506s in the studio line is pretty meaningless on the quality side (but the price is right). But the 7506s have been the industry standard for studio monitoring and glitch detection for track mastering for years. They're the meanest pair (and harshest pair) of cans around, but they hurt your ears after a while because of a plastic soft moulded piece inside them that protects the diaphragm (which can be removed and is largely documented at Head-Fi by the guy I bought my headphones from). The too cruel sound make some people nauseous. I personally dig that sound.
But ScotyP is right, choose a comfortalble pair. (Try your pair for a long while before you buy it.) As for expensive... it depends of you. If you're a hobbyist, you may not want to spend a lot of money because you know you will maybe not be exactly the most careful with your hardware. On my side, sound quality is prime requisite for my job (I'm a sound engineer on films and I'm an electro musician). I spent 275 bucks on my pair and I've never regreted it. It a precious and enjoyable tool I use everyday. Good tools just make me happy. Choose a pair of cans that will make you happy in the long run. Edit : Forgot to say, Sony is japanese. Made by small japanese guys... with small ears. If you have big ears (or simply not small ears) you might have trouble with the sony supraaurals (ring over your ear). You can look for circumaurals (ring around your ear), it provides better isolation and is more comfortable most of the time. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Oct 10, 2005 @ 1:44am |
 Coolness: 685565 | The stanton ones are really good for DJ monitoring.. The new ones with the flashy blue LED sound great, but don't feel that good. The modle below (I think the 1000) fits perfect though, sounds great, and is capable of some pretty good power should you need to crank them up real high. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Le_D replied on Mon Oct 10, 2005 @ 3:05am |
 Coolness: 144870 | I use the stanton djpro2000, I'm pretty satisfied with them, and they cost me about 100$. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Br34th3 replied on Tue Oct 11, 2005 @ 10:09am |
 Coolness: 127740 | Sony Mdr V900...$180 on e-bay ...wouldnt spin a gig without'em |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Jonny_Thrice replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 3:50pm |
 Coolness: 35600 | [ www.ultrasone.com ]
I'm gonna be selling these soon. much better than most of the overpriced garbage thats out there now...AKA Sony, Technics, Pioneer...Stanton (those Stanton headphones are returned almost DAILY!) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Flower replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 4:24pm |
 Coolness: 39970 | Get something light and durable, the more you play the more your neck hurts from heavy ass headphones. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FRANKB replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 5:00pm |
| Coolness: 103310 | yeah im just gonna buy the stanton's |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 5:07pm |
| Coolness: 48430 | 2 cans and string 1.29 at your local supamaket |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DocSavage replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 10:28pm |
 Coolness: 90295 | MDR-500s, I swear by them. The 900's are too big, in my opinion, they slide off your head pretty easy. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlphaGroove replied on Sat Oct 15, 2005 @ 11:33am |
 Coolness: 34640 | Sony Mdr V900 gets my vote.
Unless you find a deal on ebay, might be a little over your price range, but worth it. I bough my pair in 2000, and they still work like new, never had any problems, never broke, nothing, like new! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blazed replied on Tue Oct 18, 2005 @ 10:01pm |
 Coolness: 35480 | If you want indestructable phones, Technics RP-DH1200 are the ones to get... good sound, good isolation and you won't have to worry about being gentle with them unless your throwing them around. On the bad side they are quite uncomfortable if wearing for long periods of time but other than that I'd say they top notch phones up there with Sony and Pioneers top of the line...
I had originally planned on getting those flashy Pioneer ones but I hear they break quite easily.. likewise with Sony. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FRANKB replied on Wed Oct 19, 2005 @ 12:52pm |
| Coolness: 103310 | |
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