jhughes wrote:sony mdr7506....can drive em hard, sound great, have lasted well for me..

You have better luck than I do -- I go through about a pair a month here, using the Furman HD-6.

I (and bands) love the Furman system, bu we've gone to using $30 pairs of Sony's until we can find something more robust.

I do love the Grados I've used.

mb

I just ran across the More Me phones that Harvey Gerst sells. They seem worth checking out - more utilitarian than hi-fi, but they're cheap, and guarranteed.http://www.ITRstudio.com/moreme.html

Anybody used em?

I like the sony mdr7506 headphones. I do think they are the ns10s of headphones. The audio technicas are good and real cheap.


The furman hds-16/hrm-16 system looks awesome. Anyone had any expierence with it? I believe langevin makes something similar to it.

b

I like the sony mdr7506 headphones. I do think they are the ns10s of headphones. The audio technicas are good and real cheap.


The furman hds-16/hrm-16 system looks awesome. Anyone had any expierence with it? I believe langevin makes something similar to it.

b

I like the sony mdr7506 headphones. I do think they are the ns10s of headphones. The audio technicas are good and real cheap.


The furman hds-16/hrm-16 system looks awesome. Anyone had any expierence with it? I believe langevin makes something similar to it.

b

I've been kicking around a pair of AT K270s for a few years now. They have decent isolation, and sounded better than about 12 other similarly priced phones when I tested them at a shitty store I'd rather not name.

Most importantly they were trailed halfway around the house by a freaked out dog who couldn't figure out how to get the cord was off his tail. They still worked fine after.

I'm not crazy about the price or the 1/8" jack, though.

= Justin

fostex t20...not the best sound, but VERY robust, loud, and the cable is easily fixed with 1/8" male end plug..I have had 4 pairs through 3 different commercial studios, and tons of sessions driving them with a crown amp and mclure headphone boxes...
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The Fostex t20s are really great. You can crank them to high hell, step on them, drop them and they won't bust. They are very comfortable and have good isolation as well. As mentioned above, the fidelity isn't great, but it's good for studio monitoring. Ive used the Fostex for over 5 years now, and Ive never seen a pair go bad (and the ones that I used were used for at least 5 years before me...)

The Sonys that have been mentioned are much to bright and brittle sounding in my opinion, and they break too easily. They have very good isolation however.

The Beyerdynamic headphones are great:
I've been using the DT990pro for a long time now. The 'closed' version of the 990 is the DT770pro (wich i believe has all the same qualities except the 990 is maybe a little more comfortable)
I also have a DT150. This is the 'better' verrsion of the ordinary DT100.
They provide very good isolation for musicians.
All Beyer's headphones are VERY strong (unlike those crappy sennheisers
or AKG)

cstof

I second that beyerdynamic headphones are the best Ive used. AKG and Sennhieser are definately secondary to these. I've actually settled on the 770s. 990s had to much character. Sounded too much better, if you know what I mean.