Well they will be used in-doors only so i guess isolation tradeoffs are not a big deal. As for how much i will wear them...No less than 4h a day. I rarely have by laptop on without music banging away.  

OK, here is my first line in this forum.   Looking to upgrade my worn Sennheiser HD215. They neither play as they used to, nor are they good enough. I think i managed to catch the perfection bug thanks to a friend of mine :D But anyway, here is what i'm looking for in general terms:   1)...

    Quote:   As i said, cable does nothing to the sound. It doesn't make it worse regardless of what i do with it. Which presumably means that the cable has nothing with my issue.

Hi everyone. I'm new here, this is my first thread and i'm parying i'm posting in the right forum.   I've got an issues with my loyal Sennheiser HD215. I had them just under two years and they might be slowly dying on me. When i play music, i can hear a faint, but clearly audible crackling...