MixingWizard
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Howdy all!
This is my first post here, but I've been lurking around here for years (I've lost count of how many times I've benefited from the valuable information up here). This is not a recommendation thread, as I already have a pretty good idea of what I want, and I only really trust my own ears, but I could do with some insight about a couple of things.
I'm in the market for a new pair of closed back cans for work (I'm a live sound engineer). My old cans were a pair of Sony MDR-V6s which I LOVED, purely for their indestructible build, but while I really enjoyed the sound for certain genres, the inaccuracy of the bottom end was useless for my purposes. Basically I need FLAT, ACCURATE and DISTORTION/HARMONIC FREE headphones with decent isolation. By the looks of it the Denon D2000 would be ideal, but while I could probably find some used, I don't like the idea of not being able to easily replace drivers.
I'm planning on heading down to my local gear shop to test out a few sets. Namely the HD25s (I already know I don't really dig the sound/comfort though), the Shure SRH840 and the AT M50s (from the measurements they look a little "hi-fi"). Unfortunately they don't have any of my top choices, the AKG K550, Ultrasone HFI 680 and the GermanMaestro GMP 8.35 D, so I'll probably buy one of those and compare them to the ones in the shop, starting with the AKGs (because they're cheap, and measurement wise they look the closest to what I need).
Anyway, I really didn't need to tell you all that
all I really need to know is what's the build quality like on the AKGs? They look kinda brittle, and in my job they're likely to get dropped, sat on and generally thrown around...
Sorry for waffling on,
The Mixing WIzard
P.S. What in hells name is this?!
This is my first post here, but I've been lurking around here for years (I've lost count of how many times I've benefited from the valuable information up here). This is not a recommendation thread, as I already have a pretty good idea of what I want, and I only really trust my own ears, but I could do with some insight about a couple of things.
I'm in the market for a new pair of closed back cans for work (I'm a live sound engineer). My old cans were a pair of Sony MDR-V6s which I LOVED, purely for their indestructible build, but while I really enjoyed the sound for certain genres, the inaccuracy of the bottom end was useless for my purposes. Basically I need FLAT, ACCURATE and DISTORTION/HARMONIC FREE headphones with decent isolation. By the looks of it the Denon D2000 would be ideal, but while I could probably find some used, I don't like the idea of not being able to easily replace drivers.
I'm planning on heading down to my local gear shop to test out a few sets. Namely the HD25s (I already know I don't really dig the sound/comfort though), the Shure SRH840 and the AT M50s (from the measurements they look a little "hi-fi"). Unfortunately they don't have any of my top choices, the AKG K550, Ultrasone HFI 680 and the GermanMaestro GMP 8.35 D, so I'll probably buy one of those and compare them to the ones in the shop, starting with the AKGs (because they're cheap, and measurement wise they look the closest to what I need).
Anyway, I really didn't need to tell you all that
Sorry for waffling on,
The Mixing WIzard
P.S. What in hells name is this?!