ale29
New Head-Fier
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Greetings from Italy, here's the situation.
I always use headhpones while at home and using my computer. I plug them in the headphone out of an M-Audio Fast Track USB external audio card. .
I use them for listening to music and more importantly to monitor myself while playing along songs/ practising on my bass guitar.
When I'm playing bass guitar I bypass M-audio's preamp by setting the Gain to 0 and use the preamp section of my bass amplifier instead, which is of a much higher quality of course and made just for this purpose
I NEVER need to use headphones out of my room, but acoustic isolation is a concern so a closed type of headphone is needed.
I currently have a pair of AKG K518DJ, I removed the foam pad because the sound was way too scooped before. I actually like them now but they are some years old and they are quickly wearing out. I May need to replace them by christmas.
To sum it up:
-They need to be closed, prefereably more comfortable than K518DJs which are fatiguing after some hours
-They need to manage fast transients while playing bass guitar, as opposed to the generally more compressed music playback. On lower notes K518DJ's drivers seem to be reaching their excursion limit, but that's at a very high and unhealty volume i suppose.
-Good (at least until the 40ish hz range, doesn't matter what happens lower than that) low response BUT not something that will mud up everything. Lows are a bit overbearing/undefined on K518 I actually need a good mid presence too. Extremely extended highs are not a priority, I also dislike glassy highs and prefer something a bit sweeter up top.
-No more than 150€
-Portability is no priority
If nothing is better suited for my needs than the headphones I have already, I may just buy another pair of the same model.
Sorry for my english
I always use headhpones while at home and using my computer. I plug them in the headphone out of an M-Audio Fast Track USB external audio card. .
I use them for listening to music and more importantly to monitor myself while playing along songs/ practising on my bass guitar.
When I'm playing bass guitar I bypass M-audio's preamp by setting the Gain to 0 and use the preamp section of my bass amplifier instead, which is of a much higher quality of course and made just for this purpose
I NEVER need to use headphones out of my room, but acoustic isolation is a concern so a closed type of headphone is needed.
I currently have a pair of AKG K518DJ, I removed the foam pad because the sound was way too scooped before. I actually like them now but they are some years old and they are quickly wearing out. I May need to replace them by christmas.
To sum it up:
-They need to be closed, prefereably more comfortable than K518DJs which are fatiguing after some hours
-They need to manage fast transients while playing bass guitar, as opposed to the generally more compressed music playback. On lower notes K518DJ's drivers seem to be reaching their excursion limit, but that's at a very high and unhealty volume i suppose.
-Good (at least until the 40ish hz range, doesn't matter what happens lower than that) low response BUT not something that will mud up everything. Lows are a bit overbearing/undefined on K518 I actually need a good mid presence too. Extremely extended highs are not a priority, I also dislike glassy highs and prefer something a bit sweeter up top.
-No more than 150€
-Portability is no priority
If nothing is better suited for my needs than the headphones I have already, I may just buy another pair of the same model.
Sorry for my english
