same here.  a little too warm/mid-centric, poor bass extension, and light but cheap feeling cabling.  at $100 its still a good buy if you want something thats really non-fatiguing and comfortable.   Quote:  

Creative has dropped the price of the aurvana in ear 3 dual-BA earphones to around $100.  They were $150 last week and on sale for $130 before that.  Just ordered a pair from amazon so i should be able to check them out by friday.  Joker's review compares them favorably to the klipsch custom 3...

as much as i hate to say it, i just couldn't get along with akg k240s.  they sounded awesome, but for me they just always pressed too hard around my ears and the pads were hot and irritating.  in retrospect i should have tried them with different pads.  oh well, i got a pair of k702s which are...

  not a great photo, but dave chappelle as MC Fisticuffs in "Turn my headphones UP." he must have had the 600 ohm version.

i would look at sony MDv6/mdr7506 and sennheiser hd280s.  those are two great closed back headphones.  The sennheisers have better bass, but the sonys are more comfortable and have a slightly more pleasing top end i find.

Quote:   I think the EQ and mixing was done really well on that album, its just that they smashed the album with so much compression in the mastering stage.  The dynamic range really suffers as a result and i think that's why the bass frequencies (which would have been physically louder...

IMO there are two kinds of well-produced hip hop albums:     the albums that have great fidelity, clarity, detail, etc.   Jay-Z - Blueprint Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Tupac - All eyes on Me The D.O.C. - No one can do it Better The Fugees and some of Kanye's albums (though i...

Faithfully by Journey.   it wasn't from the 80s.  it was the 80s.

*raises hand sheepishly* - pitchfork.   i don't really put a lot of stock in their reviews though.  usually when i discover bands on pitchfork i look them up on allmusic and then sample some of their stuff.

the beatles were less than the sum of their parts (i.e. three excellent songwriters and an incredible producer) and benefited greatly from the cultural climate their effervescent marketability.  consequently, they are the "safest" band to ever like and everything beatles-related will continue to...

also there's this girl named adele who i hear is pretty good, but i haven't heard her on the radio or seen her on tv in the last 3 or 4 minutes

Quote: suggested albums (assuming you are just into rock/pop and not hip hop at all)   m83 - hurry up we're dreaming beach house - teen dream sigur ros - ( ) radiohead's entire catalog st. vincent - strange mercy deerhunter - halcyon digest yeasayer - odd blood youth...

The Fountain (Clint Mansell) Inception (Hans Zimmer) Meet Joe Black (Thomas Newman)      probably my three favorite.

i'm trying to pick up a pair with a damaged outer shell right now in the for sale section.  if  i like the sound sig i will consider converting them to customs.   Quote:  

    Quote:   i hope you don't consider this proof positive of your supposition.   1. everybody already knows beggars banquet and back in black and dark side of the moon are great albums.  there is an accessibility to them because of that.  we are all exposed to them, and either...

Sigur Ros - Agaetis byrjun Fripp & Eno - Evening Star Joy Division - Closer Norah Jones - Come Away With Me   the last two really benefit from the close, personal sound of headphones - though for entirely different reasons.  I think the norah jones record sounds more intimate on...

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JBL Control 2p.  love them for their portability, and they actually sound pretty good and detailed for their size as nearfields.

if you're not tracking vocals or instruments there isn't really any compelling reason to go with closed-back phones, unless you prefer that sound signature (they tend to offer more solid bass than open-back).  the 7506s are probably the only closed back phones i'd feel comfortable tracking on...

Quote: i think those are kind of mutually exclusive. the best isolating phones i've heard are the sennheiser hd280 pros, but they clamp pretty hard and aren't for everybody.  i've heard the beyerdynamic dt770s are worth looking into as well, but i bet they clamp tightly as well.  ...

i just want to say i love reading this thread.  its a great resource.

k240s are fine for mixing.  they are a standard around the industry, especially for the price range.  for monitoring they stink though since they do very little isolating.  for tracking you are much better off with a pair of closed back headphones - sony mdr7506 and sennheiser hd280 are by far...

Quote: i don't doubt that.  however, since much of my use is in the recording audio/reference monitoring sphere i HAVE to use cans that are easily driven by my audio interface/DAC.  it drives most headphones just fine, but i often have to crank it a bit too much to get my AKGs to come to...

cool, thanks.  i'm going to try to head to b&h or j&r in the next few days and check them out.  might even want to consider akg k242hd or k240mkii and swap the pads for larger velour pads? that would deal with the comfort and drivability concerns, but i'm guessing its not a big tradeup in terms...

hey all, new head-fier here.   i'm a musician/self-producer just starting to getting my feet wet with serious audio.  i'm looking to take a step up from the akg k240 (600 ohm) cans i've been rocking for the past 2+ years.  My main issues with them is that they are quite difficult to drive...