I would've hoped a few more folks could've chimed in on this topic...

@ keanex - they are the 600 ohm variety...see my sig.   @ dan1son - you have a point...I am pretty intimately familiar with these cans from hours and hours of music listening and gaming on them. I will use them on an upcoming session in a NYC studio and let you know how it works out.  ...

I am teaching myself Pro ToolsHD 9.0 (M-Powered) and CUBase6. I am building a "Hackintosh" box to run these apps and my many plugins. I have an M-Audio ProFire 610 firewire I/O interface. I have a gaggle of mics from live sound days. I could treat the room (8' x 10' cement walls and floor) to...

I own the DT770/600 ohm. They are sublime! You'll need a decent sound card in your PC or a seperate amp to drive them, but the staging is quite nice. Have you owned them previously? If not you should go audition them somewhere soon.

I use to work for Clair Brothers Sound (now Clair Global). We had many tours where a guitar player or a drummer needed that kind of isolation while retaining the ability to hear themselves in the mix. Back then the AKG K280's were a good choice for comfort and reasonable isolation. They were...

I work for Sam Ash Music....and we sell the KRK's and the BX5a's. The BX5a's win this hands down....great balance...punchy but fast mid bass...pretty decent mids and open airy on the top...like more energetic top end w/o smearing...*far* better imaging with a bigger broader sound stage. The...

 ok here's a few vinyl favs: 1. James Newton Howard & Friends - Anything off side A 2. The Mobile Fidelity "Half Speed Remastered" versions of: Steely Dan Aja - Stevie Gad's drums are slick and precise Weather Report - Heavy Weather - Side A - Abraham Laboriel's bass lines are to die for! Pink...

Quote: Thanks for the link! Afetr more reading, I'll prolly be getting an Astro mix-amp and a set of HD 595's to start. Then we'll see if I can appreciate the difference between them and something like the Beyer DT770's.

Quote: I used to work at a stereo outlet that sold high end gear so much of what I own was acquired thru buying and selling over the years I worked there. I own a set of Avalon Radians which are driven by a Krell 300wpc CAST amp, the matching Krell CAST Pre-amp, a Meridian digital front...

OK, I am new to the forum but not new to high end audio. I am looking to get a set of cans for gaming >80% and music <20%. Gonna pick up a new sound card for my one gaming set up, which includes a Intel i7 980X and a set of EVGA GTX 580's on a EVGA Classified X58 mother board. The board has a...

See if you can find a used pair of M-Audio BX5a Deluxes. They are the 'big brothers' of the AV40. Crisp and clear, wide and spacious soundstage with a bit more down low than the AV40's. J&R.com has them new for $229/pr, but I've seen them go on sale for $199/pr. I greatly preferred them to the...

I haved owned the AV40's for about a year. I did pair them with the matching M-Audio SBX10 powered sub. They sound quite good as a 2.1 set up. I feed the analog outs from my Samsung 50' plasma right into the sub and then from the sub to the AV40's.   I'll be acquiring a set of three M5a's...