Looking for: well isolating & comfortable closed back

[Donspektor]

Hey Guys

I'm looking for a work headphone with the following properties:

- Closed back
- Well isolating (I'm sitting in a room with a few servers...)
- Comfortable to wear (it's for my work, hence I'll be wearing it about 8h a day)
- Cable and pads are replaceable (again, it's for work and I'll be wearing it pretty excessively)
- Takes EQ well enough (i.e. I can get the mids clean as I'm regularly working with video editing)
- Price: preferably <300€, but if there's a headphone that fits all of my demands and sounds great out of the box i.e. Is also worth for at home, I'd be willing to spend like ~1k€ for it

Tuning as well as technicalities aren't much of a consideration to me, as I know my way around EQ and have Equalizer APO+Peace installed anyway.

I have an Elegia as well as a self built closed back here, but both aren't cutting it in terms of isolation.

IEMs I have a couple dozen or so and while they isolate well enough, I don't want to wear them 8h a day, even with e.g. my custom ear-tips.

I had an DT770 a long time ago, but with its lack or replaceable cable I'm not super into it.

I read a few times that the DT700 does isolate well enough? But seeing the Rtings measurements of its isolating properties (https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/beyerdynamic/dt-700-pro-x) I'm not super sold on it, but it seems to at least fit most of my criterias.

Any other closed backs that you guys would rec in this category?

Oh and I'm fine with second hand models.


Thank you for reading and any suggestions

Greetings
Donspektor

 

[dunring]

I just had the DT700 and it wasn't the best noise isolation. The one I'd use every day if you have noise like enterprise hard drives going off or noisy computer fans is the Dan Clark Aeon closed back. Comfort kings and if you cut foam in the shape of inserts I never wanted to equalize. They're low distortion so they do well with APO and Peace. Pass are replaceable but $69 and just peel and stick. They last a long time though, a couple of years longer than some models.
For less the 250 ohm DT770 has removable pads and equalizing down the treble peak makes them terrific. The Dan Clark on Drop or eBay isolates better though. If wireless is an option, the Sennheiser Momentum 4 are my favorite, ANC works great if you really want to be sealed off from a noisy workplace. The fast charging works well too.

 

[GREQ]

Sennheiser HD620S has some excellent passive isolation.

 

[Donspektor]

The one I'd use every day if you have noise like enterprise hard drives going off or noisy computer fans is the Dan Clark Aeon closed back. Comfort kings and if you cut foam in the shape of inserts I never wanted to equalize. They're low distortion so they do well with APO and Peace. Pass are replaceable but $69 and just peel and stick. They last a long time though, a couple of years longer than some models.

Oh really the Aeon Closed are well isolating? And would you perhaps know if theres a noticeable difference in isolation between their closed back models?

For less the 250 ohm DT770 has removable pads and equalizing down the treble peak makes them terrific. The Dan Clark on Drop or eBay isolates better though. If wireless is an option, the Sennheiser Momentum 4 are my favorite, ANC works great if you really want to be sealed off from a noisy workplace. The fast charging works well too.

I had the 770 250 ohm before, was my first non gaming headphone ages ago. Tried it last year again and the 8k peak really annoys me but EQ could obviously fix that... Just not the lack of replaceable cable...

And thank you for the suggestion, but I don't want wireless. I'll prefer to be able to maintain my devices^^

Sennheiser HD620S has some excellent passive isolation.

Great suggestion thank you... Unfortunately no Sennheiser wired headphone fit my head :/
They all stand off at the bottom of my jar like 1cm and therefore I can't get a seal or any bass...

 

[CheekerBreeker]

I have had the dt 1770 as a closed back for a while now. And even with the velour pads they isolate quite well. The leatherette pads are even better for isolation.
Also got the 770 pro x as a office headphone, but they dont isolate nearly as much

 

[Donspektor]

I have had the dt 1770 as a closed back for a while now. And even with the velour pads they isolate quite well. The leatherette pads are even better for isolation.

Ah good to know
At least the Beyers are easy to come by here in Germany, so I could maybe smatch a good deal there as by the looks of it the Dan Clark ones aren't that common.