I am looking for a good recommendation for a decent pair of headphones in
around the £20-£30 bracket.

Mainly need a decent pair that are durable that will be used for home use
only (not for Djing etc..) Also if you have any links to UK vendors that
would be great.

Any ideas?

Gameface wrote:
I am looking for a good recommendation for a decent pair of
headphones in around the £20-£30 bracket.

Mainly need a decent pair that are durable that will be used for home
use only (not for Djing etc..) Also if you have any links to UK
vendors that would be great.

Any ideas?

You might like to ask in:
alt.consumers.uk-discounts.and.bargains

sennheiser 515 or sennheiser 457
"Bryan" wrote in message
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Gameface wrote:
I am looking for a good recommendation for a decent pair of
headphones in around the £20-£30 bracket.

Mainly need a decent pair that are durable that will be used for home
use only (not for Djing etc..) Also if you have any links to UK
vendors that would be great.

Any ideas?

You might like to ask in:
alt.consumers.uk-discounts.and.bargains

"Pastor Marc" /lihbuvyrfh8tyihunijmo wrote in message
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sennheiser 515 or sennheiser 457

Agreed. They make excedingly good cakes.. er i mean headphones.
I have the fold up portable ones ( iforget the nuber) and they havent fallen
apart yet, and sound great on studio equipment.

hamman

Gameface wrote:
I am looking for a good recommendation for a decent pair of
headphones in around the £20-£30 bracket.

Mainly need a decent pair that are durable that will be used for home
use only (not for Djing etc..) Also if you have any links to UK
vendors that would be great.

Best ones for 20 quid are Sennheiser HD202. For 30 quid, get the HD202 and
treat yourself to another CD to listen to.

Cheers!
I'm gonna go for the HD202 Thanks for the recommendation
"Tim S Kemp" wrote in message
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Gameface wrote:
I am looking for a good recommendation for a decent pair of
headphones in around the £20-£30 bracket.

Mainly need a decent pair that are durable that will be used for home
use only (not for Djing etc..) Also if you have any links to UK
vendors that would be great.

Best ones for 20 quid are Sennheiser HD202. For 30 quid, get the HD202 and
treat yourself to another CD to listen to.

On Tue, 25 May 2004 18:56:51 +0100, Gameface wrote:

I am looking for a good recommendation for a decent pair of headphones in
around the £20-£30 bracket.

Mainly need a decent pair that are durable that will be used for home use
only (not for Djing etc..) Also if you have any links to UK vendors that
would be great.

Any ideas?

I've always had good sounds from Sony.

--
Now playing: Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound.
Michael Turner
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michael turner wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2004 18:56:51 +0100, Gameface wrote:


I am looking for a good recommendation for a decent pair of headphones in
around the £20-£30 bracket.

Mainly need a decent pair that are durable that will be used for home use
only (not for Djing etc..) Also if you have any links to UK vendors that
would be great.

Any ideas?


I've always had good sounds from Sony.


I don't know about the difference in US and Europe $$, but the AKG-240m
have always been some of my favorites. I think they are made in
Germany. I was bummed when my set got stolen.

There was one recording studio I did some recording with who used them
for track mix down because the head engineer thought they were more
accurate than the monitors in the mixing room.

Just my thoughts about what I thought were good sounding headphones.
They are definitely for home use and not for "Walkman" style of use
because of their size.

Check out the "Musician's Friend" web site as their prices are usually
way below most places list price here in the states.

John

I don't know about the difference in US and Europe $$, but the AKG-240m
have always been some of my favorites. I think they are made in
Germany. I was bummed when my set got stolen.


Did you report both crimes to the relevant authorities?

Which crimes, the theft, or that I said they were made in Germany, my
not knowing the money exchange rate, or the fact I like how they
sounded, which was just my opinion after listening to quite a few
different headphones.

Which is not a crime.

(Might be under Bush's rule here in the US though anymore - lol)

Which headphones have you listened to that you think would be a better
investment. I don't like the sound of any of the Sony ones I have heard.

John

Hmmm.. the frequency response of those headphones may have been more
accurate than the monitors, but unless the resulting material is
intended for playback on headphones only I don't understand why the
engineer is leaping at the chance to use these ultra-common AKG
phones?

Back in the mid 70-80's they were not that common sounding compared to
many others on the market. I think back now, and I believe it was
Grado, that made a light weight set that I was pleased with also.

This is a beginners mistake. An experienced engineer will be
aware of the pitfalls in translation between headphone mix and regular
speaker playback, and will most likely balk at the idea of doing
anything more than using headphones to scrutinize fine detail..

Could be why his rates were cheap and in the range our band could afford
to do a demo tape - lol

Don't remember who the engineer was, not the person I mentioned but some
article in a Guitar Player " magazine, but they would take their final
mix and listen to it in a car's radio back in the 60-70's to see how
they would sound in that environment and make adjustments accordingly.

This backs up exactly what you said about the final end user listening
enviroment that should be the main mixdown concern.


To quote a somewhat pro-headphone orientated article on the subject
(worth reading for background, but not wholly representative) at
Headwise "Headphone mixes can sound terrible when played back over
loudspeakers, due to the different characteristics of the soundfields
such as frequency response, interchannel crosstalk and
spatialization."

I have to agree that a lot of music today seems to be mixed more for the
"walkman" use than the home system use. Some of the details that show
up in headphones are for the most part impossible to hear through
average home speakers.

I did not delete the below link in case some one missed it in an earlier
thread. It is some good reading!

http://headwize2.powerpill.org/articles/mixing_art.htm

Which listening environment do you think a band should use for demos
now. Back then, the cassette demo was the easiest to use because CD had
not come into play because of $$$ to the bands.

Thanks for your thoughts and comments!

John