[jawang]

I know I should be looking at IEMs, but I've tried them before and I'm just not comfortable with sticking things in my ears. It also isn't really practical to share IEMs with other people, which kind of needs to happen when you split audio purchases with roommates :X

Budget is up to around $800-900 or whatever an la7000 would sell for. I love the la7000s, but they isolate about as much as my open phones do... I originally made the purchase because I wanted a high end phone that wouldn't bother sleeping roommates at night (who would be 4-5 feet away). it's hard to justify keeping them, despite them sounding amazing, when my original priority was isolation

Are all high end closed headphones in the same boat? I'm currently using a sony mdr-v6 with beyer pads at night and they dont leak at all, but the difference in sound quality is pretty noticable

how is the isolation on the edition 8/9s? are there any other closed headphones I should look at? thanks in advance :]

 

[Ra97oR]

Edition 8, Edition 9, 4070?

 

[oqvist]

Edition 8 surely isolate like a champ... Price is a smaller soundstage and more of a closed signature but if you need tons of isolation they fit the bill. Soundstaging is pretty amazing based on how well they isolate and how small they are. But there is just so much you can do with such small headphones and such isolation

Wonder how it works with several heads though... the leather are very soft and shape around your ears in no time and create a superb seal. But different ears may mess around with that somewhat... Plus if you have someone with a big head loosening up the clamping force to you. Less clamping force less isolation..

Pro 900 is quite different but certainly an option too. Isolation is not equal but considerably better then markl D5000. They are somewhere exactly in the middle between the ED 8 and markl D5000 regarding isolation. Quite different in signature though especially if you value soundstaging you may get better along with these.

If you want it warm, sweet, soft and polite Ed 8 definiatly

... I love it´s tone still impossible to get tired on it seems. But as mentioned they are closed.

 

[Palpatine]

Yeah...ED8 my first thought as well. But unless you get them used, you will have to fork out extra moolah for them/

 

[Acix]

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