[MERTON]

it was like a week ago.. i was passing a guitar center store and i rembered the senn. usa site said they sold senn. headphones.. so i went in and looked at the desolate selection... and there were the akg 240 whatevers and the hd280's ... and the mdr 700's... why did the sales guy recomend the sony's? i told him i don't really "do" sony... and he just looked at be like i was nuts and went.. oh.

 

[el_diablo007]

He probably reccomended the Sonys because the Sony name just sells its self, that or maybe he actually likes the V700 over the other choices.

 

[MERTON]

i thought the v700 were supposed to be crap?

 

[strohmie]

Crap to discerning ears, which most Americans simply don't have.

 

[MERTON]

he needs to instal new ones, eh?

 

[psyco1]

Quote:

Originally posted by strohmie Crap to discerning ears, which people in general simply don't have.

fixed

 

[Beagle]

Quote:

Originally posted by MERTON .......he just looked at be like i was nuts

How perceptive of him..

 

[Daroid]

Companies get different kinds of bonuses/gifts/awards from sales people suceeding to sell a set amount of goods from the company. I know it is the situation in Denmark, when you are looking for dishwashers, washing machines, ovens etc. If you ask the salesman like... "I am in the search for....." he says, "Yes, look here at this, X is something I can recommend", where X is the name of the company, e.g. Bosch, AEG, Siemens. It changes between each company, on who awards the sellers, selling enough of their products. This is higly illegal, but still exists out there. I think it is the same case with what you just heard at the Guitar Center. If you think it was his intention to press you to buy the Sony, really contact the police!

 

[mrkun]

American police are famous to being apathetic to just about everything besides shooting someone - and they probably own Sony audio/video equipment themselves.

 

[Orpheus]

GC is a store for professionals, or at least aspiring professionals. priorities for professionals are much different than for the audiophile. pro phones need to be durable, and have good isolation. also, the best sounding phones aren't necessarily the best for monitoring or mixing. you know that almost all the records out there were mixed on Yamaha NS-10's?--and these speakers are notoriously nasty sounding and incredibly not-flat. however, they make for good mixes, cause anything that sounds good on them seems to sound good on any system.

anyway, the point is, your priorities in equipment are very different from those who make your music.

personally, when i check a mix with headphones, i almost always grab for my 7506's. the hd600's i have clearly are superior in sound in almost every way... yet it's much easier to check a mix with my 7506. it's the only phone i have wired directly to the mixing board.

 

[MERTON]

ewwww

 

[Beagle]

Quote:

Originally posted by Orpheus you know that almost all the records out there were mixed on Yamaha NS-10's?--and these speakers are notoriously nasty sounding and incredibly not-flat. however, they make for good mixes, cause anything that sounds good on them seems to sound good on any system

Except a good one...

 

[KellDammit]

...Beagle's got you there, Orpheus...the records recorded on "good ones" were just cross-checked with ns-10's to make sure they wouldn't sound like hammered-on dogsh*t on every other system out there...

translation is the name of the game in that environment...good mix engineers run their mixes through any and all sets of speakers (even crappy mono tv speakers) and/or cans, and/or car stereos to ensure the results will sound decent on as wide a variety of gear as possible.

for studio use, particularly musician monitoring, features like durability and reversible earcups (for vocalists in particular) are way more important than ultra-super high fidelity. "professional" shouldn't really be confused with "audiophile".

kell