Are there people in the room with you? then you need to look for a closed headphone, otherwise if it is just to not disturb the neighbours you can look for an open headphone and have a bit more choice.
Headphones in this budget range are mostly auditionable in the general electronics stores. If you can, do so. This will give you the best clues.
for an open headphone, the HD555 is a good choice. Stretches budget a bit at £70 though. HD515 is it's lesser brother and is useful for this purpose too.
For an inexpensive 'sealed/closed' headphone for noise-blocking applications check out the Sennheiser HD228. This comfortable little headphone has impressive sound with a punchy well-balanced bass response & clean treble range clarity, and is small and easy to carry. $79.95 (from headroom)
Wow my spelling sucks, cheers for pointing that out. Ill change it.
It will be just me in the room. Thanks for the suggestions.Ill have a look into those models, see if I can find some where to test them, or read some reviews.
Originally Posted by stvn758 /img/forum/go_quote.gif To watch Blu Rays you would probably be better off buying a TV.
But you already have one, I hope.
It isn't perfect, but i've been very satisfied just watching my blu-rays on my 22" monitor. 1050 is pretty darn close to the perfect 1080 anyway.
One interesting thing about Blu-Ray's is the gorgeous uncompressed audio, it's essentially perfect. So a high-detail phone would suit your needs here, there a lot of extended frequency range detail in those discs.
After some brief research thinking about getting the HD555, can get them for around £60 which isnt too bad, and from what Ive read they sound really good.
Originally Posted by RushNerd /img/forum/go_quote.gif It isn't perfect, but i've been very satisfied just watching my blu-rays on my 22" monitor. 1050 is pretty darn close to the perfect 1080 anyway.
One interesting thing about Blu-Ray's is the gorgeous uncompressed audio, it's essentially perfect. So a high-detail phone would suit your needs here, there a lot of extended frequency range detail in those discs.
Well, technically your 22" is only giving you 945p at best (16:10 vs. 16:9 BD source material). You also have to consider the horizontal resolution loss from 1920 down to 1680 ... so it's really only ~77% of the full resolution. A 24" 1920x1200 monitor would still be a nice upgrade to see 1:1 pixelmapping...
Regarding the audio, which is fantastic, what process does it go through to start out as 5.1 or 7.1 channel TrueHD/DTS-HD MA and eventually become 2.0 through your headphones? What is the best possible way to do this in general?
Originally Posted by LilGator /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well, technically your 22" is only giving you 945p at best (16:10 vs. 16:9 BD source material). You also have to consider the horizontal resolution loss from 1920 down to 1680 ... so it's really only ~77% of the full resolution. A 24" 1920x1200 monitor would still be a nice upgrade to see 1:1 pixelmapping...
Regarding the audio, which is fantastic, what process does it go through to start out as 5.1 or 7.1 channel TrueHD/DTS-HD MA and eventually become 2.0 through your headphones? What is the best possible way to do this in general?
It's really a pity that 16:9 monitors are still a niche market because that would solve my problem. Even so, films that were shot close to a "16:9" aspect look really really good on the monitor, even with downscaling in play.
Hopefully one day when I finally get my 30" monitor (1600 vertical pixels) this won't be a problem
Ultrasones is great but those I would recommend is well over the budget limit... Seriously you should stretch that a bit. Even though for headphones bluray doesn´t give as much as if you have a complete surround effect. You get uncompressed audio in ALL channels!!! Impossible to watch live concerts in other then bluray format once you got the taste for it. For stereo though there isn´t that much of a difference. Particularly not with 50£ headphones. If you want some to sound decent you have to sacrifice comfort generally and you must get open headphones in that price range.
Something cheaper I am so getting the German Maestro 8.35D monitor and perhaps get to try the 450S as well. From the description the 8.35D seem to be great with movies. but as well it´s impossible to say for sure without hearing it personally but it´s next on my list to try. I was out of the race but it just looked to good to be true for that price. It would not require you to buy some expensive amp to drive them at least and 150 Euro is nothing to complain about. Though the Ultrasone Pro 750 is not that much more... Or the Pro 2500 if you don´t need the isolation and are willing to trade some impact for the action movies for some wider soundstage
They do need an amp or you are not hearing them though. Proline 650 I haven´t heard but many have mentioned they are excellent for movie watching too.
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