[mikek1357]

Hi folks,

I love movies, but since walls are thin I am bound to headphones most of the time.

I'm looking for a pair of good headphones to use when watching movies.

Been looking into some, like the Sennheiser rs165, sony DS6500 (yes discontinued) and maybe even, though very expensive the Sony HW-700DS, surround would be nice, but how the headphones sound and durability is more important to me.

Any advice or user experience with these or other headphones for movies is welcome.

 

[cel4145]

With wireless headphones, you are paying a good bit for the wireless technology. So for the money, there are definitely better wired headphones. I have a headphone cable that I hook to my AVR and run to my couch.

What is overall your budget?

What is your source device that the movies are playing on (make/model)?

Are you open to open headphones? They will have better soundstage for movies, but they will leak sound a little and let a bit of outside sound in. Someone in the next room shouldn't be able to hear them, though.

Are you a person that likes lots of extra bass? Do you want deep bass extension?

 

[mikek1357]

Budget is 2 to 300dollars.

Either I'll hook it up to my tv's optical output or direct with my bluray player

Open ear headphones could be an option but I dons't wan too much sound leaking out.

I like bass in action movies, but it shouldn't overpower other audio in a movie.

 

[Youth]

Fidelio X2 could maybe be something.

 

[cel4145]

If you were to go with wired headphones, to hook up to your tv's optical, you would need some kind of dac/amp.

What make/model blu-ray player do you have? Most don't have headphone output, and these days, many don't even have analog output and would require a dac/amp.

 

[mikek1357]

My Blu-ray player is a Philips 3380 which does actually have analog audio outputs.

 

[cel4145]

FiiO E11K for a headphone amp for your Blu-ray player. HD598 would be one good headphone.

 

[rocklogic]

I was in your position a couple of years ago, before I moved in to my current house. Had a Sony BR player, and hooked it up to my Fiio E07K and E09K combo with DT990 pro; was quite an 'el cheapo' setup, but served me really well. 

The DT990 leaked quite a fair bit, but nothing that would travel across rooms

 

[Spareribs]

I prefer speakers but recently I’ve been using headphones for my movies.

I like to use the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 for my movie watching if I’m using headphones. It has outstanding detail yet natural sounding.

For old movies with inferior sound quality I like to use the Sennheiser HD 650 since it kind of “thickens” the sound.

I like to use tube amps. I’ve been using a hybrid tube amp for my movies these days. But a good quality op amp solid state amp is great too.

 

[Spareribs]

If you’re on a budget, pretty much any headphone with good clarity is fine like the Grado SR60e.

 

[kazuma1111]

For movies you need bass
1-rs 170(headphone is tweaked for movies)
2-rs 185(sound quality is good on this one too is tweaked for movies )
3- rs 165 (don't know about this one but I have used 175 )

My personal opinion is that stay away from 175 and 165