[Oliver Hayes]

Heyy, 
 
Although I'm primarily planning on using these headphones for listening to music, I also tend to enjoy voice chatting with friends. Of course, I won't have the volume up obscenely high or anything, but if I'm listening to videos/movies/music in the background, at an appropriate volume - would the other person be able to pick up on this? It's something that I have trouble with my current headphones, and it gets pretty annoying. 
 
Thanks!

 

[Mortuus]

They're open headphones so will leak quite a lot

 

[swmtnbiker]

Yep, the HD 650 leaks like a sieve, by design, just as most open headphones do.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  Although I'm primarily planning on using these headphones for listening to music, I also tend to enjoy voice chatting with friends. Of course, I won't have the volume up obscenely high or anything, but if I'm listening to videos/movies/music in the background, at an appropriate volume - would the other person be able to pick up on this? It's something that I have trouble with my current headphones, and it gets pretty annoying.

 

I can hear my PC fans 1m away, and these are three fans running at 7v (two intakes) and 5v (exhaust+rad), GPU fans only set to run at 40C (even on the hottest day here it barely even runs unless I'm gaming, but that's also why I don't use the HD600 for that).

 

[PinkyPowers]

Heyy, 

Although I'm primarily planning on using these headphones for listening to music, I also tend to enjoy voice chatting with friends. Of course, I won't have the volume up obscenely high or anything, but if I'm listening to videos/movies/music in the background, at an appropriate volume - would the other person be able to pick up on this? It's something that I have trouble with my current headphones, and it gets pretty annoying. 

Thanks!

Open backs don't "leak" sound. They spill it out freely.

 

[Oliver Hayes]

Eccck, seems to be pretty clear then. 
I'm just wondering before I buy them because I'm also planning on purchasing the uni-directional mod mic 4.0 to attach along with 'em, that's all. 
 
Thanks for the responses!

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  Eccck, seems to be pretty clear then. 
I'm just wondering before I buy them because I'm also planning on purchasing the uni-directional mod mic 4.0 to attach along with 'em, that's all.

 
I haven't had any issues with mics picking up the sound. That said, the noise - fans, the rest of the noise floor, etc - could just be masking it, and whether it does or doesn't, the point is there's a lot of sound leaking in. A lot goes out also so don't even think of using it around other people - you'll go into a downward spiral of boosting the volume so you don't hear them, they might boost the TV volume so they can hear it over the leak, you boost again so you don't hear the increased TV volume...