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Best budget headphones for production monitoring?

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  • June 14, 2013 at 7:22 am #41320
    DJ Vintage
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    Can’t help you there. I have Sennheiser HD25-IIs which are pretty much an industry standard. They are perfect for both studio and live sound (although some like an even more over-the-ear design for loud live environments) AND for DJ-ing.

    Indestructable, every piece on there can be replaced, cables, earthingies, really everything. And they have an anniversary version out now in aluminium (ME WANT >>> :().

    You buy those for 15+ years. BUT, as these things go, it get’s reflected in the price. They are a firm 250 euro at the cheapest place you can find them.

    I am guessing that you might actually be better off keeping your current cans while saving up for the “real deal”. Not sure a set of 100 dollar studio cans will sound that much better than the ones you currently have. Unless they have a really colored frequency pattern to accomodate DJ-ing.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    June 14, 2013 at 11:25 am #41323
    B.B. Koning
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    Thanks again for the advice.

    My current headphones are more or less standard style for general use.

    The impedance is 40 and the frequency response is 20Hz-20kHz.

    On the other hand, I do have some ER 4P IEMs, which I find to be VERY flat. And I mean that in a good way. They are just under the ER 4s models. Fantastic in ear monitor/buds. Sadly, there is a slight short in the right channel, so I will have to get them repaired.

    Their bigger brother, the ER 4S, are actually designed specifically for that purpose, and I would say these are damned close do to the flat across the board sound I hear from them.

    20Hz to 16Khz +/- 4db.

    Thanks again.

    That being said, that might be the best overall choice here.

    June 14, 2013 at 1:55 pm #41326
    DJ Vintage
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    Quite frankly, even though good cans ARE important, when mixing down and mastering a track, I will predominantly listen to my near field monitors. Headset goes on occassionally if I really want to focus on something specific.

    If you mix on a headset, the end result will not sound good on speaker systems usually.

    So, work with what you have for now and rely on your monitors.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    June 14, 2013 at 7:20 pm #41334
    B.B. Koning
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    Thanks.

    Hopefully I will not have to use the headphones very often. Unfortunately, with the schedule being what it is, there will be times (much like when making DJ mixes) I will have to use them. I will save the tinkering and idea stage for this, then, and use the field monitors for the mastering/mixing.

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