Meyvn
Headphoneus Supremus
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The surround sound in and of itself does not make headphones crappy. It's just that surround headphones are generally not designed for music listening; they're designed for movies, which usually means bloated bass and sometimes harsh highs. It also just kind of sounds funny with music.
As to your original question, I would much prefer the K81DJ to the DT770. The K81DJ has a lot of bass for a headphone to begin with, and it's cleaner, tighter, and more controlled. The mids and highs are also better to my ears. The DT770 is just a bass monster if you ask me. However, the one problem is that the K81DJ's cord is just not very robust; it's designed more as a portable phone, even though it is great as a home closed phone in terms of sound quality and isolation. If you do decide to go with it anyway, you mentioned 15 ft or more distance, so I would get a Grado headphone extension cable. Their cables are affordable, very long and very robust. You could also consider simply getting a Grado headphone for their more robust cables. (Either way, though, get the Grado extension.) However, they won't give you the same bass response as the K81DJ, and they can be a bit more fatiguing for long listening sessions with certain, harsher forms of rock (unless of course, you amp them well, which you really don't intend/can't afford to do).
| Originally Posted by chrisco That shows you my lack of understanding. I thought that certain phones dealt better than others with differing file formats…I guess I was being a bit of a spaz. Ok that could well be good advice that I need to bare in mind….is there something crap about headphones that mention surround sound, I mean does that compatibility make them crapper in other ways or for playing music generally? What is a better set of headphones out of the Alessandro MS-1 and The K81DJ or (given I maybe being too simplistic) at least what are the pros and cons in terms of a comparison? What about the beyerdynamic dt770 that feh1325 mentioned how would they compare to the previously mentioned phones? If this was your cash guys and you were going to be using them in the way I said where would you plant the cash? |
The surround sound in and of itself does not make headphones crappy. It's just that surround headphones are generally not designed for music listening; they're designed for movies, which usually means bloated bass and sometimes harsh highs. It also just kind of sounds funny with music.
As to your original question, I would much prefer the K81DJ to the DT770. The K81DJ has a lot of bass for a headphone to begin with, and it's cleaner, tighter, and more controlled. The mids and highs are also better to my ears. The DT770 is just a bass monster if you ask me. However, the one problem is that the K81DJ's cord is just not very robust; it's designed more as a portable phone, even though it is great as a home closed phone in terms of sound quality and isolation. If you do decide to go with it anyway, you mentioned 15 ft or more distance, so I would get a Grado headphone extension cable. Their cables are affordable, very long and very robust. You could also consider simply getting a Grado headphone for their more robust cables. (Either way, though, get the Grado extension.) However, they won't give you the same bass response as the K81DJ, and they can be a bit more fatiguing for long listening sessions with certain, harsher forms of rock (unless of course, you amp them well, which you really don't intend/can't afford to do).
