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post #1 of 10
12/3/11 at 6:21am
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Hello people,

 

I have started my hunt for my first pro headphones? To be honest i'm feeling a bit lost with such a massive range to choose from. I'm wanting them to be attached to my pc in my home office, which has an asus xonar stx sound card. I listen to a lot of - fleet foxes, beirut, the cave singers, radiohead, emancipator, so i guess that's folk and electronic. I would like them to be really comfortable and not create that warm ear ache thing some of the crappy headphones do. I could listen for like 8 hours straight whilst i work, so they need to be majorily irritant free. The open cans seem more comfortable, however im just guessing, it would be cool to just go somewhere and try out the top 10 headphones, anyway. Budget is up to $350. I did have my eye on them denon 2000's and akg 242's, but any experienced advice would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks You'll

 

-d  

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post #2 of 10
12/3/11 at 6:39am

Get the Denon D2000, it will give you the bass you need for electronic. Unfortunately the sound characteristics of electronic and folk are about as far as you get apart from each other. The Denon will do decently on the folk as well. It's not high impedance so it can be powered by your sound card (the card has an amp anyways) and it's closed so it doesn't leak sound. I would also seriously consider IEMs with that budget.

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post #3 of 10
12/3/11 at 6:41am

If I were you, I would rather get an Ultrasone.

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post #4 of 10
12/3/11 at 6:47am
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"Unfortunately the sound characteristics of electronic and folk are about as far as you get apart from each other."

 

shizen, i had a feeling this was going to be a challenge. Would the d5000's make a major difference over the d2000's? maybe i should just focus on folk and try save up for another pair for electro. Looking into ultrasone to found out their story.  

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post #5 of 10
12/3/11 at 6:59am

Okay, that might've been an overstatement on my part but yeah, there is truth in that. My experience with Denon is fairly limited (only heard D2000 and LA7000 briefly) so I really can't give you an impression on the D5000. I've never heard Ultrasone so I have no idea. My recommendation is that you don't buy two pairs of headphones. For someone who has thousands invested into their listening station with different amps and DACs, more than one headphone is good because they have different genres but for workplace use, I'd figure it'd be really impractical to switch headphones for every other song (imagine listening to your library on shuffle).

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post #6 of 10
12/3/11 at 7:07am
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thanks crinacle the ultasones hfi-2400 look pretty impressive. iem's are out, to much inner pressure.

 

out of the adh2000's or hfi2400 , which would be able to be listened for a greater period of time without getting irritating? 

 

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post #7 of 10
12/3/11 at 7:10am
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I'd figure it'd be really impractical to switch headphones for every other song (imagine listening to your library on shuffle).

 

haha, yeh, sounds pretty impractical. ok, i'm back to one. 

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post #8 of 10
12/3/11 at 7:11am

That's completely a personal preference thing. Some people don't like leather because it gets sweaty. Some people don't like velour cause it feels rough on their skin. Personally I prefer leather and the bigger cups on the D2000s certain LOOK more comfortable.

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post #9 of 10
12/3/11 at 7:16am

Another suggestion: AKG K550, new, not many reviews, but the AKG house sound will not disappoint for folk music and it looks more comfortable the the Denon and the Ultrasones.

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post #10 of 10
12/3/11 at 7:37am
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AKG K550

 

wow, apparently they offer more bass then the k701's. their pretty fricken massive though, will wait on a review for those.

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