FarleyCZ
New Head-Fier
Hi all,
my long-time kinda cheap traveler companion SHR-440 is slowly starting to fall apart. I'm slowly starting to search for something to replace it with.
I happen to travel relatively a lot, so in the efford to maximize time as much as possible I sometimes work on some music on various hotel rooms. (Just a TV technician, not a touring musician, but it sounded cool for a moment, huh? ) For that purpose was SHR-440 quite ok with to my ear surprisingly flat-ish sound. At home, I got really used to sound of old good DT770 80 Ohm. That's my spirit animal headphone. That ment I wanted something in a from-factor of SHR-440, with sound close to DT770 and possibly more durable then the Shures were. 100-200 buck range. Not a simple task I guess.
So I did a little research and decided that ATH M-50x are probably the best bet. Everybody loves them. So I went to try them in a fairly local headphone store and ... well ... the bass and the midrange are top notch, but what's with the highs? There was this peak close to 10KHz that was just killing me. That got me sad, because otherwise these were perfect. Folding, built like a tank, easy to throw in a backpack.
So I went exploring what they had on display, but there was always something. HD-25 were kinda tiny sounding, not too dynamic. Anything elese from Sennheiser was not foldable. (They didn't have HD-280 though...) Cheaper Audio Technicas were either still with the 10kHz peak present, or not very trustworthy in terms of build. Closest thing I find to my liking was AKG K550, but they are hefty, almost unfoldable, not portable at all. ...or SHR-840, but they were so plasticky I'm kinda worried they'd be beaten up as quickly as the SHR-440 were.
I'm really stuck. Do you guys have any more suggestions?
my long-time kinda cheap traveler companion SHR-440 is slowly starting to fall apart. I'm slowly starting to search for something to replace it with.
I happen to travel relatively a lot, so in the efford to maximize time as much as possible I sometimes work on some music on various hotel rooms. (Just a TV technician, not a touring musician, but it sounded cool for a moment, huh? ) For that purpose was SHR-440 quite ok with to my ear surprisingly flat-ish sound. At home, I got really used to sound of old good DT770 80 Ohm. That's my spirit animal headphone. That ment I wanted something in a from-factor of SHR-440, with sound close to DT770 and possibly more durable then the Shures were. 100-200 buck range. Not a simple task I guess.
So I did a little research and decided that ATH M-50x are probably the best bet. Everybody loves them. So I went to try them in a fairly local headphone store and ... well ... the bass and the midrange are top notch, but what's with the highs? There was this peak close to 10KHz that was just killing me. That got me sad, because otherwise these were perfect. Folding, built like a tank, easy to throw in a backpack.
So I went exploring what they had on display, but there was always something. HD-25 were kinda tiny sounding, not too dynamic. Anything elese from Sennheiser was not foldable. (They didn't have HD-280 though...) Cheaper Audio Technicas were either still with the 10kHz peak present, or not very trustworthy in terms of build. Closest thing I find to my liking was AKG K550, but they are hefty, almost unfoldable, not portable at all. ...or SHR-840, but they were so plasticky I'm kinda worried they'd be beaten up as quickly as the SHR-440 were.
I'm really stuck. Do you guys have any more suggestions?