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did a little research on the AD700, I must say I'm intrigued. What else do you know about these???
Other than what has always been said about it: impressive soundstge for its price, very airy and sparkly treble, yet not sibilant or painfully piercing, comfortable and bass shy to some people. As a reminder, I don't have them, and never heard them, these are just observations made from reading here. On the other hand, judging from the not so many reviews and impressions, its bigger brother, the ad900, has more improvements to the ad700 (either slightly or significant seems to vary from people to the next): even more airier treble, more soundstage, more forward mids, just a tad more bass to make it less bass shy.
Only I think the ad700/900 would be too much of a departure for a basshead who're looking to slowly try and listen to less bass heavy headphones.
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Hey guys, Old member coming out of retirement. I have been out of the audio game for a few years after I sold most of my equipment to fund other hobbies. my past equipment(HD 600,650 zu mobius cable RSA raptor, modded XFi sound card). I have been primarily using my UE10's but I am looking to get a set of somewhat portable cans. My music ranges from acid jazz (medeski martin wood, john schofeild, ect) hip hop ( afu rah, jurassic 5, ect), Phish, Rock. alittle of everything. My price range is around 300-500. I can not decide what to get. I know I dont want any portible amp that I have to charge and worry about all the time, and I want to drive it directly from my galaxy nexus or my ipod. Right now I am looking at DT990( Always wanted theses do they need an amp?) , HD558, ATH m50, beats mixr, and beats studio.
any advice. I want to jump back in slow but right!
From my reading around, the DT990 requires an amp to even sound acceptable, and they are pretty much home cans. And they are open. The HD558 are also similarly open and more for home use, but not as power hungry as the DT990. They output more than acceptable (at least to me) volume from my phone.
Can't say too much about the ATH-M50, as I don't own or have listened to them, but there a lot of hype and impressions on that, so it's there. From my brief reading of it (as I'm not interested in it much) they are a V-shape DJ headphones that
had a good price
erformance ratio, but not so much now. At it's current $150 price, I see lots of other, cheaper, and arguably better competition for it. Some that pops up a lot are Shure 580, 780 (although this is coming straight from my memory, and I myself doesn't trust it
). They are considered portable in a sense that they can collapse to a smaller form, but they are pretty much still a over-ear 'phones.
About the beats studio: IMVHO, they are okay. I've borrowed my friend's pair, and other than a very forward and bloated bass, there's nothing to write home about. Mids are mediocre, IMO, and the highs are recessed. This is pretty much fart cannons. But for the price, there are better alternatives, no even at cheaper there are better alternatives. As I don't like bassy 'phones much I didn't put too much effort in looking for them though. Nothing on the beats mixr, but if dr dre keeps following his trend, it would be some more bad price
erformance ratio 'phones that are mostly for the looks and brand name.
I can't reliably give you recommendations, but what I can do is point you towards ljokerl's portable cans review. It's stickied in both the full-sized and portable subforums, IIRC.