Headphones

And my two cents as usual.

It is all but impossible to find cans that are good for all three uses:
1) production
2) DJ-ing
3) track listening

There will always be a compromise made somewhere. If they are excellent for production, sound engineering, mixing/mastering, they will most likely be tiring to listen to tracks for a long time. If the are good for DJ-ing (i.e. boosts in low and high areas), they are not suited for serious producing/sound engineering.

Well, you get the drift.

I too have the HD-25 IIs. Indestructible. The HD-8s are pretty good, for DJ-ing. You CAN listen to music on them, but the do color the sound a bit imho. Which is ok if you like that particular coloration of course.

At the end of the day though: Trust Your Ears!

1) They are ment to be used for sound engineering. As I said, that makes them slightly less useful for DJ-ing and especially for just listening. I literally NEVER use my HDs to just listen to music.

2) Comfort of cans is, imho, a 100% personal matter. Everyones head and ears are different. Wearing glasses can turn otherwise comfortable cans into dragons and vice versa for example.

3) Another option would be two cans? The thing is, when you start producing with a bit of coloration, you are training your ears to that specific sound. Let’s say two years down the line you are more into producing and need to mix and/or master your own stuff. You’ll either make decisions based on the colored sound of your current cans or have different (more true) cans and your ears will tell you that things sound “off” while they are actually sounding truer due to the lack of coloration.

4) Can’t help you there

5) I am guessing he means a dip in the frequency curve in a specific frequency range somewhere in the scale.

6) The Alu’s look sooooooo much better! LOL. Seriously, if I had an excuse to buy new ones I’d get the alu anniversary edition. But as far as I know, it’s all cosmetics.

7) & 8) No help from me on those two either.

Good luck with your choice.

I’m going to add my voice to the chorus currently singing hymn number 27, “Thank You Lord For My Sennheisers”.

HD25 II’s, had mine since the very early 2000’s and the only replacement has been 2 sets of ear pads. They sound great, I actually like to use mine in conjunction with my Adam studio monitors to see if my vinyl rips sound ok. Seriously, you cannot go wrong with them. If I was buying new I would consider the NOC’s also, but not much else comes close to the Senny’s.

The V-Moda are OK but for me they were too flimsy on my head. I did not get good isolation for DJing… lifestyle wise they are OK, production maybe if your room is silent enough.

I actually would go for the RHP-30 as they offer a little more production value and are still good for DJing. However they are much bigger headphones and cannot be folded down as small as the Mixr. But that is really the only downside.

I use HD25-IIs with the coiled cable for music production, film audio production, DJing live and listening. I’m used to them for listening, though if I want to just go outside and walk about I use Ultimate Ears Triple-Fis which have great sound isolation.

My current HD25s I bought around April 2011 and they’ve lasted fine til now. You can customise them with coloured parts if you want as well, there are many ear cups and cables etc to get from places like eBay, though I’ve kept it the standard black. The Aluminium ones look nice. Many DJs in Valencia seem to have the Adidas blue ones. I’ve seen green DJs use bog standard Beats but those guys seem to come and go quickly – many are just in it for the money or girls, and usually play EDM badly.