Decent headphones?

aquaknight

aquaknight

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Currently have a set of Behringer's. Got them because of the impressive frequency response, 20Hz-20kHz.
Been awesome headphones, though through constant nightly use, the left driver is now distorting lower ranges at higher volumes.
Anyone have any recommendations for something decent? Looking perhaps a bit upmarket. No earbud rec's please
.
Pretty wide needs. Listen to rock/rap/trance, and for gaming (racing sims). No mixing/djing...
 
casper1875

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Google Bose headphones.

I went to a local Bose outlet store and I was checking out the headphones and I was amazed at the sound. I tried all of them and they were all great.
 
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dragonzim

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I'll jump on this bandwagon as well...
Anyone know what the best earbud style headphones in the $50-$75 price range are? Want to replace the crappy ones that come with an iPod.
 
troy989

troy989

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skullcandy lol there for teens kinda i have the gi rastas and there pretty nice and not as much money as bose i personaly like myne beter than bose beccause there kooler colers
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Originally Posted by DragonZim
http:///forum/post/3160573
I'll jump on this bandwagon as well...
Anyone know what the best earbud style headphones in the $50-$75 price range are? Want to replace the crappy ones that come with an iPod.
V-Moda Earbuds

http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/gadg...e-Roundup.html
I'd love to give the Bose a try, but I'd rather walk in the slimiest used car dealer, then walk into the shark tank that is the Bose store at the mall, with all the salesguys posted up by the door, waiting to pounce...
Sennhesier and Sony have a couple nice ones. Also looking at Denon, and how could I not guess pioneer would have decent headphones?
Anyone with Beyerdynamic or AKG experience? These are slotting up particular well. Not $700 pro units, but not cheap stuff either.
 
scotts

scotts

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Originally Posted by AquaKnight
http:///forum/post/3160532
Been awesome headphones, though through constant nightly use, the left driver is now distorting lower ranges at higher volumes. ...
The dad and former safety supervisor in me says, turn the volume down, you are going to damage your hearing
Sorry.
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Mostly music for the night hours when I can't listen to speakers (set of Mirage towers
). I'll be at my desktop, so don't need portability/earbuds. Music is mainly rock/alt. with rap/trance/house sprinkled in, so bottom heavy sets are a plus. Also a bit of gaming, racing sims pretty much exclusively.
 
scsinet

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Okay well then the recommendations that are flowing in are good ones. I was curious if you were doing DJ work or something that would dictate different suggestions.
Given your usage pattern, I'd have to say I agree with Scotts though... although Behringers are not very good headphones, if you are blowing drivers in the headphones... you probably need to be worried about doing serious damage to your ears.
I'm an audio guy myself (though Klipsch, not Mirage, and I mean old Klipsch, not that crap that Best Buy sells now), and one day after listening to (read: blasting) Floyd's "Breathe" and "The Great Gig in the Sky," my wife said to me "What if one day you can't listen to it anymore, or at least one day you can't hear all the things you can hear in music that the rest of us can't?" I couldn't argue with that...
 
miaheatlvr

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Originally Posted by DragonZim
http:///forum/post/3160573
I'll jump on this bandwagon as well...
Anyone know what the best earbud style headphones in the $50-$75 price range are? Want to replace the crappy ones that come with an iPod.
Stand bye these 100%, fantastic sound quality, good customer service as well. I blew one side of the headset and they replaced it ASAP. I even found them better sound quality than my shures.
http://www.v-moda.com/
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Originally Posted by SCSInet
http:///forum/post/3161115
Okay well then the recommendations that are flowing in are good ones. I was curious if you were doing DJ work or something that would dictate different suggestions.
Given your usage pattern, I'd have to say I agree with Scotts though... although Behringers are not very good headphones, if you are blowing drivers in the headphones... you probably need to be worried about doing serious damage to your ears.
I'm an audio guy myself (though Klipsch, not Mirage, and I mean old Klipsch, not that crap that Best Buy sells now), and one day after listening to (read: blasting) Floyd's "Breathe" and "The Great Gig in the Sky," my wife said to me "What if one day you can't listen to it anymore, or at least one day you can't hear all the things you can hear in music that the rest of us can't?" I couldn't argue with that...
I hear (for now at least
....
) ya guys on the volume levels. Definitely listen louder then I should. Doing better though, learning to turn them down on regular songs and only bump it on the favorites. Though I think part of the blame for the death of Beh's is from forgetting to turn the receiver down from the speakers to headphones. Headphones only need like a quarter of the speakers. Done it 2 or 3 times,
thank god they weren't on lol...
Certainly a valid point on "the things that rest of us can't." The Mirages were a steal, though the NAD amp combo and Ruby interconnects weren't. Then we have my car audio... Definitely would be a tragedy to have those go to waste.
Originally Posted by MiaHeatLvr
http:///forum/post/3161223
Stand bye these 100%, fantastic sound quality, good customer service as well. I blew one side of the headset and they replaced it ASAP. I even found them better sound quality than my shures.
http://www.v-moda.com/
Beat ya!
 
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