deji
New Head-Fier
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I'm sporting a pair of HD 202 that I love to bits, but I've had them for like 6-8 years now and the earpads are so worn out I simply must get some new ones. No big deal, they've served me really well.
Price range is about 100€. I'm willing to go up to 130€ if I really have to. Has to be circumaural.
I will be using them on my PC for the most part, mainly for gaming and listening to music (mp3 :/ ) with a bit of mixing, though I have a digital piano and an electric guitar I might use them for. Listen to almost everything really: rock, jazz, funk, etc.
I'm thinking about going open headphones, but I'm unsure of how the noise level will be - my girlfriend sleeps in the next room and the walls are quite thin, I don't really want the noise to reach the other room. How loud can I expect open headphones to be? About the same or louder than headphones that are playing on the table?
I'll be plugging the cans into a Mackie Onyx Satellite, you could also let me know whether it should be able to drive the phones well with it or whether I should think about getting an amp for them.
If open fit my needs, I found the Sennheiser HD 518 (and the semi-open AKG K-240) are about 100€, though I found no reviews of the HD518. the HD 558 and the HD 595 are 130€, the maximum I'm willing to put in, but I would rather not go for something that expensive at this point unless the price/value is much better.
The selection I have to go on is on http://www.thomann.de/gb/ as everything sold in local stores is hugely overpriced (like seriously, there were some AKG phones that are 180€ in the local store, but are 90€ online) and I have some friends ordering from that site so I can split the shipping costs.
Cheers in advance.
Price range is about 100€. I'm willing to go up to 130€ if I really have to. Has to be circumaural.
I will be using them on my PC for the most part, mainly for gaming and listening to music (mp3 :/ ) with a bit of mixing, though I have a digital piano and an electric guitar I might use them for. Listen to almost everything really: rock, jazz, funk, etc.
I'm thinking about going open headphones, but I'm unsure of how the noise level will be - my girlfriend sleeps in the next room and the walls are quite thin, I don't really want the noise to reach the other room. How loud can I expect open headphones to be? About the same or louder than headphones that are playing on the table?
I'll be plugging the cans into a Mackie Onyx Satellite, you could also let me know whether it should be able to drive the phones well with it or whether I should think about getting an amp for them.
If open fit my needs, I found the Sennheiser HD 518 (and the semi-open AKG K-240) are about 100€, though I found no reviews of the HD518. the HD 558 and the HD 595 are 130€, the maximum I'm willing to put in, but I would rather not go for something that expensive at this point unless the price/value is much better.
The selection I have to go on is on http://www.thomann.de/gb/ as everything sold in local stores is hugely overpriced (like seriously, there were some AKG phones that are 180€ in the local store, but are 90€ online) and I have some friends ordering from that site so I can split the shipping costs.
Cheers in advance.
