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Best headphones for hip hop under $150

post #1 of 3
1/16/13 at 10:43am
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Hey Im looking for  some over ear headphones that work well with hip hop/ rap on my iPhone. I like bass a lot, but not too much that it drowns out the mids and highs. I also want ones that dont leak too much and bother other people. I have been looking in the ATH M50s so far, but i was wondering if that was a good choice. Some people have a mentioned a fairly weak bass and some leakage.

What do you think?

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1/16/13 at 11:27am

These are designed to be studio monitors so they are pretty balanced.  That means the bass probably won't be as strong as you like it.  I tried some a few weeks ago and found that I really liked how musical they were, but decided that didn't deliver the bass that I crave.  The isolation was pretty good.

 

I've done some research cause i'm looking for a similar thing.  I'm looking at a pair of Sennheiser HD25-1-ii, which are the DJ standard.  I tried them when a mate had them a couple years ago and I remember they sounded incredible, very strong bass and good isolation, but they do leak quite bad.  You might want to take a look at them.  There's also the AKG K167 in that price range and i've seen good things about those, I was hoping someone could compare them for me in a thread I started, but i've had no replies.

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1/16/13 at 11:52am
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Any idea on the Ultrasone Pro 550?

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