Sound quality:
I can't understand all the fuss about these headphones. These are not "high fidelity", and are a bit frustrating when you are used to better full size headphone (or even IEM). I found them a bit muffled.
Design:
They look cheap, and a blue cable and blue pleather does little to save their look.The velour pads are white, but why ? (let's cry)
Built Quality:
They are supposed to be very solid, time would tell.The headband foam padding doesn't seem to be well glued. The little provided bags, offers almost no protection, except from dust.
Comfort:
NOPE. These are not a torture device, but not the kind of headphone you can forget. I was also disappointed, when I realized they were too small to put around the neck while moving.
Isolation: Yeah, but an iem would provide a better isolation. The only pretext to use the hd25 II 1, is that you don't like to have iem stuck in your ears.
Conclusion & Value:
The only reason to get these headphone, is that you want good isolation without having anything stuck on you ears. Otherwise my senn IE7 offers better portability, isolation, AND SOUND QUALITY (and their built quality is great too). At home I have a noisy portable air conditionner, the only pretext for me to use the hd25 II 1 . These headphone have convinced me , that "on ear" dj headphones, are not for me.
I can't understand all the fuss about these headphones. These are not "high fidelity", and are a bit frustrating when you are used to better full size headphone (or even IEM). I found them a bit muffled.
- Bass: The bass thump/impact is here , but lacks variation, it sounds like a single note. In comparison my cheaper but discontinued senn IE7 offers much richer bass.
- Mids: The vocals are where the hd25 II 1 shine best , I guess because they are quite forward. But still, I found some weirdness in the mids, they lack cohesion with the remaining frequency range (even if you try to eq) ; perhaps the mids are slower ? .
- Treble: I don't know what to say about the treble, decent, but not pleasant.
- Soundstage: sounds coming , from little tiny cups, there's no miracle. It's abysmal. I believe there's a problem of internal damping, that the new expensive amperior partially fix.
- Remarks: I noticed the hd25 II 1 sound a bit better with velour pad but you loose in isolation. Since for me the main value for this headphone is isolation, I keep the pleather pads. Also the hd25 II 1 sound less muffled at high volume levels, but I like to keep the volume to a level I find relaxing.
Design:
They look cheap, and a blue cable and blue pleather does little to save their look.The velour pads are white, but why ? (let's cry)
Built Quality:
They are supposed to be very solid, time would tell.The headband foam padding doesn't seem to be well glued. The little provided bags, offers almost no protection, except from dust.
Comfort:
NOPE. These are not a torture device, but not the kind of headphone you can forget. I was also disappointed, when I realized they were too small to put around the neck while moving.
Isolation: Yeah, but an iem would provide a better isolation. The only pretext to use the hd25 II 1, is that you don't like to have iem stuck in your ears.
Conclusion & Value:
The only reason to get these headphone, is that you want good isolation without having anything stuck on you ears. Otherwise my senn IE7 offers better portability, isolation, AND SOUND QUALITY (and their built quality is great too). At home I have a noisy portable air conditionner, the only pretext for me to use the hd25 II 1 . These headphone have convinced me , that "on ear" dj headphones, are not for me.
yeah they are better for rock or pop, because you take advantage of the nice vocals.
I've been recently listening to techno : drexciya Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller I & II , wire 2007 compilation, Richie Hawtin DE9.Transitions. . After some time I got enough of their bass, and realized that having thump was not enough for me to get some excitement: It's just gross and sound at the end more or less the same from one track to another.
Let's just say that the hd25 lacks the clarity & fullness of sound I'm looking for. They do not qualify as being "audiophile grade"; they offer a fun factor , that is getting weak over time. They are ok for mainstream music, but I'm not very interested by this kind of music. The problem is that I've paid more than 200$ for them,
and at this price I'm looking for more than ephemeral fun.