[busssy2333]

Hi, for music production, I'm looking for headphone recommendations that are:
 
- around $70 with a 10 year warranty but preferably lifetime, would spend $100 if better quality and lifetime.
Some companies offer no-questions-asked warranty and will repair even if you step on them or something which is nice but I'm mostly concerned about problems from normal use. I don't blast them though.
 
- Oval cans (by cans I mean the actual headphone, circle ones underlap my ears sometimes and I don't even have huge ears)
 
- Padded top of course. No leather/animal products.
 
- detachable cord and can use regular 1/8 cable I can get off ebay for like $2, not some specialty jack $50 replacement cable.
 
- No mic or added bells and whistles.
 
- No default bass boost. I can EQ bass myself if I want.
 
- Closed back and noise isolating. (I want no sound to exit the headphone. For noise canceling vs isolating, either should be fine but I don't need to spend more for canceling).
 
I searched for hours. I wasted a lot of time at first looking for ones with 10 foot cords which I need and then learned they make them with detachable cords a lot now which also eliminates a lot of problems with possibly tugging the cord while it's stuck on something but that can still F up the jack port and make it finicky.
 
All I found so far with lifetime warranty is most KOSS and Skullcandy but I don't think they have exactly what I'm looking for. 10 year warranty should be fine but anything shorter and I would probably just make do with KOSS or skull candy. I'm also tempted to just get a $25 pair of Monoprice 8323 because they get such good reviews and be done with the search.
 
I don't want to support sennheizer anymore. I had a $60 pair of them I liked from 2001 that lasted me maybe 8 years (with soldering repairs) but the $40 HD428 pair I have of them now the cord is the thinnest cord I have ever seen even vs dollar store earbuds. It hasn't broke in maybe a year or more but I have to be extra careful with them plus I need a 10 foot cord and I have the 6 foot cord adaptered to an extension which is finicky and doesn't produce sound unless it's a very particular way hence I am looking for new ones.  Thanks

 

[busssy2333]

bump. thanks

 

[busssy2333]

I'm close to just getting monoprice 8323s. But what would you say are the best $80-$100 pair that has everything I'm asking in the first post except the lifetime warranty but has at least a year or preferably longer warranty and more importantly something that I can buy replacement parts like speakers or jack ports if they ever do break?
thanks.

 

[Music Alchemist]

Don't buy the Monoprice 8323. It sounds awful. I would recommend the Audio-Technica ATH-M40x.

 

[obobskivich]

There aren't any companies that will offer a "10 year warranty" that I'm aware of - and only one that I'm aware of with a bona fide lifetime warranty (Koss; Monster used to do this on their top IEMs, but does not currently afaik offer it anymore). Koss makes a number of headphones that would generally fit your requirements, basically anything with "PRO4" in the name is where I'd start; DJ200 too. You should also look at Ultrasone - they don't offer a lifetime warranty, but they stand behind their products with something like 8 or 10 year parts availability in the event that you need spares. AT is good for that too - again, no geological timescale guarantees, but they have wide parts availability and their service dept is easy to deal with. My point is, the product may not exist under warranty, but replacement parts aren't necessarily going to be unavailable.

On the whole "no animal products" bit - we've had discussion about vegan cans before (I doubt I could find the thread); the short version is that "no leather" is very easy (especially on less expensive cans, like the ones you're looking for), but saying "100% animal free" or "100% synthetic materials" is a bit harder because there may be animal byproducts used in some plastics, films, fabrics, etc.