Which Headphones
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Doggit
This is personal preference game. Loads of reviews will tell you this is great, or that one works better, but as they're sitting on your ears, load some music on your phone, and go round the shops trying them out. Beats give a very deep base, but are at the top of your budget, Senheisers are always a good bet, as are Bose, but I've listened to £35 skull candy's that have been more than acceptable.
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Wireless is always a major compromise as well as paying far more for,the wireless capability than the same quality wired
I have these
http://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Beyerdynamic-DT-770-Pro-Headphones-80-Ohm/76U
I have these
http://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Beyerdynamic-DT-770-Pro-Headphones-80-Ohm/76U
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I've always like Sennheiser as a good price/performance option. The momentum range is quite nice. Historically I'd wouldn't go wireless, but with the new iphone, there is increasingly more choice coming on the market.
DT250 it is! Thanks guys.
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Brigade77
My B i L has a set off Sennheiser's that cost £1.8K & I can't tell the difference between those and my set of £180 Sennheiser's.
Yet he can !
I love my £180 headphones. In my own home I can finally play whatever I want at whatever volume I want without becoming a hippocrite !
Problem is, my £20 set of Phillips BlueTooth headphones sound just as good as my £180 Sennheisers !
Some people have more money than sense.
This also applies to some people who don't have much money.
This also applies to some people who don't have much money.
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Brigade77
Nobody here hates you.
We pity you.
Do you not like the music. How can you possibly not like music?
Perhaps you are so bitter & twisted that not even music can save you.
Try this when you are on a good day, void of all your dark demons . . . Remember a good time in your miserable existence so far & look up what was likely to be playing on the radio that day.
Play it. Maybe, just maybe, you might be able to capture the moment & re-live that single good thing that might have happened in the miserable existence of your life so far.
If, you achieve Nirvana then may your God bless you. If you do not, cannot, will not. Then remember . . . your friends in text do not hate you, we pity you.
He can tell the difference because he paid for them.
No one else can because they did not pay for them.
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blightymam
That thought crossed my mind too! Still, it's his money I guess, each to their own.
Isn't hifi one of those things that stops being that beneficial after a certain level? I mean, can pay thousands if such a audiophile, but then costs WAY exceed what it delivers after a point. Still, keeps the companies selling it happy
A member on another forum told me a story once of how his audiophile brother(in law, possibly) bought some new super duper gold-blah-blah rolled-on-a-virgin's-thighs everything-free-copper connecting cables at huge expense and invited all his audiophile friends round for a listen-in-awe session. After much complimenting on depth of sound stage, excellent dynamic range, expansive field etc the secret that was making said forum member and brother in law's wife smirk so much could no longer be contained; they'd swapped all the interconnects out for cheapo ones from radio shack..
So plus one for "he can hear it because he bought them" comment.. and to the OP, thankfully headphones are something you can give a Listen to in the shop and get the same sound out of at home (unlike the room acoustics of your lounge and the test room at the shop being different) so take along your amp and music source (it can be an iPod loaded with ****ty over compressed MP3 if you really want, if that's representative of what you'll be listening to) and test drive a range of headphones
Maybe shortlist 3 and then get the assistant to tell you the prices, because just from your opening gambit of "I'm looking to spend about 150 quid on headphones" indicates you might be susceptible to a bit of price blindness
So plus one for "he can hear it because he bought them" comment.. and to the OP, thankfully headphones are something you can give a Listen to in the shop and get the same sound out of at home (unlike the room acoustics of your lounge and the test room at the shop being different) so take along your amp and music source (it can be an iPod loaded with ****ty over compressed MP3 if you really want, if that's representative of what you'll be listening to) and test drive a range of headphones
Maybe shortlist 3 and then get the assistant to tell you the prices, because just from your opening gambit of "I'm looking to spend about 150 quid on headphones" indicates you might be susceptible to a bit of price blindness
Remember though that even pretending to smack someone round the chops for spending too much on headphones is against the law
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Brigade77
To be fair to my B i L he has always splashed out on his hi fi & has very few other toys.
The first time I ever heard quadrophonic I jumped out of the way of the train coming thru his living room.
I think my big sis left him once when he splashed out £5k on a stylus (yes, just the needle) for his record player.
The first time I ever heard quadrophonic I jumped out of the way of the train coming thru his living room.
I think my big sis left him once when he splashed out £5k on a stylus (yes, just the needle) for his record player.
