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Production headphones vs DJ headphones

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  • October 21, 2016 at 9:19 am #2457251
    Terry_42
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    There is no general rule.
    For example one of the most used DJ headphones (Sennheiser HD-25) never were marketed as DJ headphones. Actually Sennheiser has a line of DJ headphones and the HD-25s are not in it.

    When companies make DJ headphones usually they have a few key features:
    – Coiled cables (os it does not get in the way)
    – Good sound isolation
    – most have some way of moving one can of one ear
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    However I have seen good DJs use sports headphones, production headphones, in-ear monitoring headphones,…

    On the other hand I see a lot of non-DJs run around with DJ headphones.

    So the rule is: Whatever floats your boat and supports your workflow and mixing.

    October 24, 2016 at 9:47 am #2457601
    5miiks
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    Just as Terry said, for DJing you can pretty much use what suits for YOU the best. If you don’t see anything wrong with using your headphones for DJing, there probably isn’t. I like my DJ phones to be a bit bass heavy, well isolated and I want them to look cool too so I went with V-Modas myself.

    Well, for production you probably want to have that ‘flat’ sound and this is why most DJ headphones (many of them are low end heavy!) imho doesn’t fit for production.

    Summing it up,
    Production headphones -> Can be often used with DJing
    DJing headphones -> Doesn’t usually fit for production

    and this is just my humble opinion 🙂

    December 9, 2016 at 12:14 pm #2479391
    Brian Jones
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    Yea production headphones are really cool for DJing. Use only those headphones by wearing which you look more cool. Production headphones looks more cool than normal headphone. But I am still using cheap HD headphones from http://www.soundmagic.us/index.php/product-category/headphones/ for DJing. Need to upgrade my headphone with production headphone.

    December 18, 2016 at 4:51 pm #2481821
    Rob S
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    I use ATHs for DJing, fantastic headphones.

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