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I want them for casual listening later in the evening, or other times when I don't want to worry about how loud I want to play my music. I will be using a Yamaha As-801 to run them through. Wireless would be cool, but not mandatory. Also, looking to spend $300 or less.
Any suggestions?
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Sen 650/600....are truly great. They lack upper harmonics and low end extension, but the mids are wonderful. They should be connected to a dedicated headphone amp.....no need to look elsewhere.
..those who are interested in iem.....(I know this sounds like a joke)....look at the reviews for the Blessing 2. I just ordered mine...it takes about 6 months to get.
You are going to love them. I mated mine with a Penon GS849 cable and broke them in for 7 days 24/7. Unbelievable value. Mine took two weeks from order from AliExpress in China.
Sony MDR-7506 have been an industry standard in music and film production for decades. About $100. Some respected speaker designer said he used them as a reference when voicing a speaker. I've never actually heard them, but they're on my "right price" or "moment of weakness" list.
There's been buzz about the Monoprice DJ headphones for about $20; so I took a chance on them and thought they sounded "boxy", and passed them on to a charity store. Maybe that could be fixed by adding some stuffing or something. They're said to be identical to Kicker headphones that sell for around $100. A nice feature is the removable cord, short and long versions are included.
I have enjoyed using my Sennheiser HD 598 headphones for years. They are very comfortable open back phones and are very easy to listen to. They are not hard to drive.
They are discontinued, but the HD 599 is said to be very similar and they have over 1400 reviews on Amazon.com. They are well within your budget.
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"A fool and his money are soon parted." --- Thomas Tusser
Grado SR-225 or some kind of Sennheiser that may come in at just under budget. The Grado may have more lively and open sound, and the Sennheiser will sound good too and be a LOT more damn confortable for those late night listening and lounging around.
i won the Hifiman 4XXs from Drop. among the most comfortable i have ever had on my head and very natural sounding. i am not one bit sorry i bought them and the price is RIGHT. they are planars.
...regards...tr
I love my Sennheiser HD600's, but they are open back and one does hear the bleed.
Basically, your significant other will know what you are listening to, but your neighbors won't.
I was looking for a pair of wireless headphones a couple of years ago and discussed my requirement with Sennheiser direct as it was my first headphone purchase. I took their advice and decided on their RS-185s. These offer both analogue inputs (RCA) and Toslink digital but I've only used the latter. I'm no headphone expert, but they are comfortable, you can hear when the phone rings, you can wander around with them on your head, there's no string to trip over and they sound pretty good. List price is about your budget. I'd be interested to learn of other users' experience with these headphones as there's nothing found using Search.
Edits: 04/19/20
I agree with HD-600 as a great pair of headphones. The HD650 has a much darker sound--actually sounds muddy with a poor quality headphone amp.
If you want to use wireless with the Yamaha, you will need Bluetooth headphones and also a Bluetooth adapter for the Yamaha amp.
To my ears the 600 sounds a lot more natural
"'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice./And when justice is gone, there's always force./And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!" Laurie Anderson, "O Superman (For Massenet)"
HD600 can be had for $300. Longtime favorite of mine (and others), but...
Stretch your budget to $380 and you can rock the HD650; IMO, this is a "buy one and be done" choice, it just gets better as you upgrade DACs and headamps. But....
You should take my advice (and everyone else's) on this subject with a grain of salt. Like speakers, headphones are a matter of personal taste, and generally exhibit a "house sound". Others will tell you that Grados are the be-all and end-all, and I will not disagree with what is a personal preference. You need to listen for yourself. Hard in these turbulent times, I know; perhaps you can find retailers with liberal return policies.
I recognize that wireless is a nice convenience (I use wireless phones when traveling), but my personal preference is avoid the additional codecs needed. YMMV.
Cerebrate!
The HD600 are a long time classic. If you're buying blind this is a good place to start.
I've got them, got a good deal on them from Audio Advisor around 2003.
They're comfortable and sound really good. You can't go wrong.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Which is a private label HD-650 plus made by Sennheiser for MassDrop exclusively.
More an HD650 than HD600 and available for...
$195
Link below: Gotta register to see the $195 price. Massdrop has only sold 977,000 of them!
Best screaming headphone bargain on the internet.
Once you have decided if you want closed or open back headphones, on ear, over ear or in ear, there are two main considerations:
1. Ensure that the headphones re comfortable to wear. If not I guarantee that after your initial interest you will put them aside more or less permanently to gather dust. People have different sized heads and ears so it is impossible to offer any broad recommendation regarding this criterion.
2. Ensure that your amplifier's headphone socket will drive them. Unfortunately many (most ?) headphone manufacturers are not good at providing proper specifications like impedance and sensitivity. I had a little difficulty in tracing the specifications of your headphone socket and , when found, in interpreting them. I think Yamaha specifies output as 470mV into 470 ohms. The other interpretation of their spec is that the socket has an output impedance of 470ohm which would make matching to a headphone difficult. I would just try to avoid cans with unusually high or low impedances.
Buying headphones strikes me as a difficult purchase full of risk to the purchaser. Few stores offer demonstrations yet you will have no idea what a given headphone sounds like, or even if it will work satisfactorily with your equipment, without trying. Basically you need to be able to return if not liked or just be prepared to write off the cost.
Were times different I would recommend attending a show like CanJam to get a feel of what is available but unfortunately that is not possible at this point in time.
Sorry I cannot just say "buy a pair of X".
"We need less, but better" - Dieter Rams
I just bought a pair of wireless headphones made by FiiO. They don't sound as good as some of my others but they're wireless, which is very convenient. They don't necessarily sound bad so they're quite listenable. I'm happy I bought them. They're FiiO Bluetooth EH3 NC Headphones .
I also own IEM earphones that really sound good, but they're not wireless. They're also Fiio products, the F9 Pro IEM Earphones . You can easily make these wireless by using the FiiO LC-BT2 Neckband MMCX Bluetooth 5.0 Earphone Cable .
Good luck,
John Elison
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