TheBard
New Head-Fier
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First of all, thanks for the helpful stickies to whoever wrote them (especially the gloossary ).
I need to say I've never owned any good headphones, mostly because I never needed it (living in the country and all I never had the need of "turning down the volume"), but after the demise of my current headset I decided to try some better ones.
I've been searching around for a while, looking link and reviews but I'm still undecided, so I figured I should ask to someone more expert than me ;D
What I'm looking for is something
* in the 100-150$ range, even a bit more if it's worth it.
* microphone is a definite plus, but not a must.
* I'll be using the headphones for movies, music (mostly FLAC files, some leftover mp3 and some CD) and games (so being able to determine the sound "location" is important, while this will be the last use I'll make of them time-wise, I'd hate if they did that badly, because if that's off I won't be able to use them to play :\)
* I'm not planning, at least at the moment to get an amp.
* they'll be plugged in a X-Fi Extreme Music
* I have glasses, and no I can't take em off. Last headphones I had pushed them in my head and it wasn't pleasant at all... something that doesn't require much clamp would be nice.
The ones I've been looking were at the beginning the Logitech G35, then I noticed the USB and dumped it. Google led me here and from here I found the Sennheiser PC-350 (or possibly a pure headphone model like the HD-550 or something) and to the Audio Technica website for the ATH-AD700. But feel free to suggest other ones
I also have some questions that are not really related:
* what's the difference in sound quality, if any between closed and open headphones?
* do closed models have "temperature issues" for long usages?
* do amps actually improve the sound quality or they're useful only to give some extra juice to the headphones if the home theatre/soundcard/whatever can't manage?
* HOW do they manage to produce a surround sound with a good sound localization in headphones that have a normal stereo plug as the only input? I've tried to figure it for a while, but short of alien tech I never understood that.
I need to say I've never owned any good headphones, mostly because I never needed it (living in the country and all I never had the need of "turning down the volume"), but after the demise of my current headset I decided to try some better ones.
I've been searching around for a while, looking link and reviews but I'm still undecided, so I figured I should ask to someone more expert than me ;D
What I'm looking for is something
* in the 100-150$ range, even a bit more if it's worth it.
* microphone is a definite plus, but not a must.
* I'll be using the headphones for movies, music (mostly FLAC files, some leftover mp3 and some CD) and games (so being able to determine the sound "location" is important, while this will be the last use I'll make of them time-wise, I'd hate if they did that badly, because if that's off I won't be able to use them to play :\)
* I'm not planning, at least at the moment to get an amp.
* they'll be plugged in a X-Fi Extreme Music
* I have glasses, and no I can't take em off. Last headphones I had pushed them in my head and it wasn't pleasant at all... something that doesn't require much clamp would be nice.
The ones I've been looking were at the beginning the Logitech G35, then I noticed the USB and dumped it. Google led me here and from here I found the Sennheiser PC-350 (or possibly a pure headphone model like the HD-550 or something) and to the Audio Technica website for the ATH-AD700. But feel free to suggest other ones
I also have some questions that are not really related:
* what's the difference in sound quality, if any between closed and open headphones?
* do closed models have "temperature issues" for long usages?
* do amps actually improve the sound quality or they're useful only to give some extra juice to the headphones if the home theatre/soundcard/whatever can't manage?
* HOW do they manage to produce a surround sound with a good sound localization in headphones that have a normal stereo plug as the only input? I've tried to figure it for a while, but short of alien tech I never understood that.