tetsuo55
New Head-Fier
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Hi everyone, i have been a lurker for some time now, but it became time to sign up and see if anyone could help me out with a headphone choice.
I will try to give a little profile of myself, explaining the main issues i face when choosing a headphone.
First about myself
I am a so called "hyper-sensitive" person, this means that my ears are hyper-sensitive to touch, sound and sound/air pressure. some details:
Something that touches my ear all the time with slight pressure is impossible for me to wear for more than a few minutes (things like on-ear headphones or in-ear headphones are impossible)
I can hear both very low and very high hz sounds, like the so called unhearable ringtone and dog whistles(although i feel those more than hear them) and low sounds like the vibration of a wall when a ship passes by (the shipping route is about 1km distance from my house)
Those hz that i cannot hear i still feel, i have never tested how high or low i can go...
The sound pressure boundry results in me using a very low volume level, about 8 for normal listening and no higher than 15 for intense listening on my D2 with senheiser mx450 phones.
The car stereo never goes above 12 and my 5.1 home cinema never goes over 25%
Converted to a single number i would say i never up the volume over 25% of the device's capability anything about this value starts to hurt.
Next what kind of music do i listen too
Basically everything, from classic to hardtrance to soundtracks to pop, most of the time i will be listening to electronic music like trance and soundtracks. The headphones will also be used for documentary and movie watching via a pc-headphone jack.
I am definatly not a bass-head eventhough my music styles do contain a lot of bass i like my bass controlled and in balance with the rest of the frequencies.
where do i listen and what do i use:
I will be listening to my music mostly when seated at work, in public transport or at home when studying, all these call for noise blocking both into and out of the headphones.
The idea is to be able to wear and listen comfortably for long sessions (up to 8 hours)
The listening devices used will be a Cowon Iaudio D2 and PC and Laptop headphone-jack
The D2 is said to have a bass roloff starting at thirty something DB, so this might need to be compensated by the headphones
What am i using now:
Currently using a Sennheiser MX 450, for some bizare reason these don't heart my ears when used for less than 1 hour, my home cinema system is a creative 5100.
As you can see the sound quality of these speakers and headphones sucks. I'ts time for something better.
My Budget is: As low as possible
And here are the headphones i found so far that might fit the bill:
Ultrasone HFI-780
Sennheiser HD280 pro
AKG k530
So can anyone help me out, what would be the best set of closed headphones for me?
I will try to give a little profile of myself, explaining the main issues i face when choosing a headphone.
First about myself
I am a so called "hyper-sensitive" person, this means that my ears are hyper-sensitive to touch, sound and sound/air pressure. some details:
Something that touches my ear all the time with slight pressure is impossible for me to wear for more than a few minutes (things like on-ear headphones or in-ear headphones are impossible)
I can hear both very low and very high hz sounds, like the so called unhearable ringtone and dog whistles(although i feel those more than hear them) and low sounds like the vibration of a wall when a ship passes by (the shipping route is about 1km distance from my house)
Those hz that i cannot hear i still feel, i have never tested how high or low i can go...
The sound pressure boundry results in me using a very low volume level, about 8 for normal listening and no higher than 15 for intense listening on my D2 with senheiser mx450 phones.
The car stereo never goes above 12 and my 5.1 home cinema never goes over 25%
Converted to a single number i would say i never up the volume over 25% of the device's capability anything about this value starts to hurt.
Next what kind of music do i listen too
Basically everything, from classic to hardtrance to soundtracks to pop, most of the time i will be listening to electronic music like trance and soundtracks. The headphones will also be used for documentary and movie watching via a pc-headphone jack.
I am definatly not a bass-head eventhough my music styles do contain a lot of bass i like my bass controlled and in balance with the rest of the frequencies.
where do i listen and what do i use:
I will be listening to my music mostly when seated at work, in public transport or at home when studying, all these call for noise blocking both into and out of the headphones.
The idea is to be able to wear and listen comfortably for long sessions (up to 8 hours)
The listening devices used will be a Cowon Iaudio D2 and PC and Laptop headphone-jack
The D2 is said to have a bass roloff starting at thirty something DB, so this might need to be compensated by the headphones
What am i using now:
Currently using a Sennheiser MX 450, for some bizare reason these don't heart my ears when used for less than 1 hour, my home cinema system is a creative 5100.
As you can see the sound quality of these speakers and headphones sucks. I'ts time for something better.
My Budget is: As low as possible
And here are the headphones i found so far that might fit the bill:
Ultrasone HFI-780
Sennheiser HD280 pro
AKG k530
So can anyone help me out, what would be the best set of closed headphones for me?
