GnomeKid
New Head-Fier
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Hello!
I recently started in an a sound design MFA, and I'm here to ask some advice about headphone options. I've been working with a pair of 40 dollars skullcandys [don't recall the specific name, and i couldn't find them on their website anymore. Regardless, they're consumer quality] and I clearly need to get myself a good pair of all-purpose studio headphones. (For recording, for mixing, for editing, for everything.) I don't have the money to go around buying different pairs of headphones for different purposes at this point in my life. I also need something with a closed back, as I am going to be using them in classes and don't want to be rude leaking my sound everywhere while others are working. They're going to be traveling back and forth to class with me (and will most likely end up being dropped a couple times), so I also need them to be fairly durable.
Brief list of my headphone requirements:
- Under 250 dollars. (preferably under 200)
- Suitable for many uses across the sound design spectrum (I want a flat response)
- Closed back
- Durable for constant travel and clumsiness.
So far I've been looking a lot at the audio-technica M50s, and am thinking I'll probably go that way. They seem among the most highly praised for the price (~ $150 but I actually found them new on amazon for only $110). I've also been looking at the Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro-80 or the Beyerdynamic DT 250-80, as the company was offhandedly recommended by one of the professors during our orientation when they told us we needed good studio headphones. Others I've strongly considered were the AKG K 272 HD.
I've been trying to do a lot of research over the past week and a half. At this point, however, I feel like I'm swimming in a sea of headphone brands and model numbers.
Any advice?
I recently started in an a sound design MFA, and I'm here to ask some advice about headphone options. I've been working with a pair of 40 dollars skullcandys [don't recall the specific name, and i couldn't find them on their website anymore. Regardless, they're consumer quality] and I clearly need to get myself a good pair of all-purpose studio headphones. (For recording, for mixing, for editing, for everything.) I don't have the money to go around buying different pairs of headphones for different purposes at this point in my life. I also need something with a closed back, as I am going to be using them in classes and don't want to be rude leaking my sound everywhere while others are working. They're going to be traveling back and forth to class with me (and will most likely end up being dropped a couple times), so I also need them to be fairly durable.
Brief list of my headphone requirements:
- Under 250 dollars. (preferably under 200)
- Suitable for many uses across the sound design spectrum (I want a flat response)
- Closed back
- Durable for constant travel and clumsiness.
So far I've been looking a lot at the audio-technica M50s, and am thinking I'll probably go that way. They seem among the most highly praised for the price (~ $150 but I actually found them new on amazon for only $110). I've also been looking at the Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro-80 or the Beyerdynamic DT 250-80, as the company was offhandedly recommended by one of the professors during our orientation when they told us we needed good studio headphones. Others I've strongly considered were the AKG K 272 HD.
I've been trying to do a lot of research over the past week and a half. At this point, however, I feel like I'm swimming in a sea of headphone brands and model numbers.
Any advice?