A headphone question

I wear glasses most of the time but I do take them off for DJing (I’m short sighted but only in one eye for some reason) as my headphones are quite uncomfy if I keep them on. I don’t like the ear-squishing effect of on-ears though so I decided that I would live with it when I bought my headphones..

Maybe try contacts? That’s what I would do if my eyesight was bad enough to warrent wearing glasses when DJing..

bob6397

Both on-ear and over-ear will get uncomfortable, the latter will press on the “legs” of your glasses and press them into the side of your head. Just a different kind of on-ear. Also, I have my headphone on for max a minute at a time, often way less. It’d be different if I wanted to mix exclusively in my headphones or wear them for a longer period of time just listening to music.

You can always consider in-ears of course.

I wouldn’t use my DJ headphones for wearing when I’m travelling.. I’ll stick to my in-ears for that – they sound better!! UPt o you though..

Neither will be especially comfortable for wearing for long periods of time. From my point of view, you have 3 options.

1) Don’t wear your glasses. This might well not be possible if you have bad enough eyesight so that this wouldn’t work.

2) Wear contact lenses whilst DJing/Wearing your headphones – this means that you won’t have to bother with comfort when you have your glasses on but may well not be practical if you want to use them all the time.

3) Use in-ear headphones when DJing/travelling. Many in-ears offer better noise isolation than over-ears anyway and can be more subtle.. If you do use in-ears though, most people mix “in headphones” – IE with a split cue or with a lot of use of the “Cue Mix” dial…

Those would be the possible solutions from my point of view.. I went for option 1.. 🙂

Try getting in-ears with Otoplastics (custom made plugs). They will be comfortable.

Only you can know – everyone’s heads are shaped differently. They are awesome headphones and many many people love them but headphones are a very personal thing.

If you aren’t sure, I would advise getting them from somewhere you can return them to without any hassle just in case..

I find the same thing with my Audio Technica’s (and indeed any other studio-biased flat freq. response headphones out there) – these studio headphones are designed to show up the flaws in the music so you can fix them whilst you are mixing a track (in a studio sense not a DJ sense) but that unfortunately makes them hard to listen for long periods of time (if you are truly listening to the music).

For that reason I use my Beyerdynamic DTX101iE’s for listening to music (Awesome sounding in-ears – really musical..)

bob6397