I have a tiny recording studio at home and am currently using MDR-V6s for almost everything to do with it. I would however really like a good pair of open-backs - for both higher-quality mixing, and also simply listening to music (the two are just about equally important for me). I wouldn't like to spend more than approx $210. I'd really rather not buy a new DACamp, so I'm looking to be using my Fiio E10K (for the general listening; for mixing I'll likely be fine with the internal DACamp of my audio interface, Presonus Audiobox - though tell me if you think I won't be!) with whatever open-backs I end up choosing. I both make and listen to everything right across the board - prog, folk, power electronics, pop, industrial, metal, shoegaze, drone...
From what I've heard so far, the K701s seem to me like a nice choice, with how they supposedly are pretty 'analytical' and don't 'color' any single aspect of sound too much - which I thought was probably good with the variety of stuff I'll be hearing through them. But I've also heard the DT990 250 Pro isn't bad. And I suspect there may be other options I don't know about that could be interesting. Would love someone to chime in with thoughts. Thanks a lot!
From what I've heard so far, the K701s seem to me like a nice choice, with how they supposedly are pretty 'analytical' and don't 'color' any single aspect of sound too much - which I thought was probably good with the variety of stuff I'll be hearing through them. But I've also heard the DT990 250 Pro isn't bad. And I suspect there may be other options I don't know about that could be interesting. Would love someone to chime in with thoughts. Thanks a lot!