Quote: I run these K240DFs from my laptop jack and the volume is barely listenable. I have to bump everything to 100% and I still feel that I would be more comfortable with 130% or so.

Quote: Problem is there are no local shops for studio audio equipment (or guitar centers with good headphones) here in Lučenec (Slovakia), the nearest one with all sorts of studio stuff is 150km from my town...From what headphones is that EQ? And it's hard to search for headphones by the...

Quote: Oh my god so many things to buy! :D And are built-in amps common in dacs? Yeah I heard that they're bass heavy but also that the 250Ohm version is much flatter than the lower impedance versions.

Quote: MONITORING for sure. But are the Shures good or the best at that price?

Quote: I won't be using the AKG K240DF, they were just borrowed for a few days. And since the response should be as flat as possible (I don't know what you mean by transparent) isn't almost no bass equally as bad as too much bass? Could the lack of bass on the K240DF be because I wan't...

Quote: Do all version have it? I think the latest one is K240 MKII. The one I tried was K240DF (600Ohm).

Ok, I got my hands on the AKG K240DFs (old version with diffuse-field eq) for a few days from a guy I know that works in a studio and the first thing I noticed is the lack of bass and overall volume. The volume is because they are 600Ohm headphones and I'm using them from my laptop jack, but is...

Quote: This sentence confuses the hell out of me :D Sorry, my native language isn't english and I really can't understand what you're trying to say. And I kinda knew what I want, I mean...MIDI controllers and keyboards don't change the quality of the sound like headphones, DACs and...

Quote: So you're suggesting that I should buy a DAC and use my old PortaPros (of they get repaired) for making music? Never thought of that, but I see what you mean. The thing I hate in life the most is deciding, and now that the deciding with headphones went pretty okay, I gotta decide if...

Quote: When you're talking about comfort are you talking about the Shures or KRKs? I understand that studio monitors are more-or-less used only as a reference, and you're supposed to do monitoring on actual monitor speakers. But since I don't have any (yet) I need headphones that I'll be...

And the KRK KNS8400s are pretty close to the Shures, right? How close? And why do people say that the KRKs don't have strong bass? Based on the frequency response graph, they have the most bass of the headphones mentioned here...

Quote: I don't know what circumaural means, but are they full-size over-ear? And I wanted closed-back more, because since there are no cons to using them over open/semi-open (as I was told here), I can also hear music while recording with a mic (that I will get after I'll get an audio...

Quote: But CAL for studio monitoring? They're not even meant for monitoring purposes...

Quote: I'm a little confused, because in my country: Shure SRH840 - 150€ (198$) M-Audio Q40 - 120€ (159$) Creative Aurvana Live! - 45€ (60$) The Q40 are around the same price as the SRH840, but almost 3x as much as CAL!

Quote: I can get them new for 110€ (145$), but those are open, aren't they? Are there any pros or cons of using them against closed? I like that closed ones isolate, because when I produce, I wanna be in my own world and not listen to some stupid yelling in my house.

Quote: Ok, I hate myself for saying that I want them to look good (I guess that's what I get when I'm trying to buy professional monitoring headphones at 14...). I hate Beats. The things that truly bug me on the SRH840 is the comfort (people say that they are heavy and the cable is heavy...

Quote: Well I need them for monitoring, so are the Shures better that the KRK KNS8400?

And about the KRK KNS8400, I'll be using them (or some other headphones that I'll buy) right now only on my laptops headphone jack, so will that be enough to drive them?

Quote: So would the KNS8400s be better than the SRH840?

Quote: I keep hearing this ALOT so I'll just have to push the M50s out of my mind. Thanks to everyone who said this to me, because if I wouldn't go and make this thread, I would buy the M50s (or maybe K271 MKII). And btw, I still didn't heard anything about the M-Audio Q40 and the AKG K271...

Quote: And it's also 230€ (300$).

Really confused right now   (how do I embed this?) http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=0&graphID[]=2941&graphID[]=913&graphID[]=2901&graphID[]=2961   The AKGs seem to be te least flat, the have lowered bass and highs. The Shures are similiar to the AKG except that...

Quote: I won't be using them mainly for listening. I need monitoring headphones so I need a flat response. As for the KRK's, you mean the KNS8400 ? Heard some good things about them, but not the their the best in the price range. The MDR-7506 look...bad. Really bad. I mean I know that the...

Quote: Thanks, I also heard that the Shures look ugly on the head. I occasionally want to take them out and in the car and I don't want to look like a complete idiot.

Quote: And if the SRH840 would be to heavy and uncomfortable (I can't really try them in any local shops) which would be the next best ones, and how much would I sacrifice?