Recommend Headphones for Cue Send

[walker rosewood]

I'm looking into getting some headphones to use as a Cue Monitor from the FOH board. I did a forum search and all the results were about headphones to use for exaggerated bass response. What I need is a set that will give me accurate representation of what is coming through the channel.

I did check out a lot of the suggestions, found headroom headphone.com (sweet freq response charts!), and now I'm leaning toward something in the Grado line. Probably the Sr80i. I would love to have the $1700 Pro series but 1)i'm poor and 2)for all the shady bars I'm working at I don't want to be carrying around anything worth more then $100 or so.

So are there any FOH folks or Monitor engineers who use headphones rather then a cue wedge? What do you use and why?


oh, and no earbud styles. Thanks for your opinions!

[cbrophy]

Sony MDR 7506...$120 - 130 bucks

[walker rosewood]

Hmm... after some more fine print reading.... as much as I'd like to be different and own some Grado's, they might not be right for my application.

New front runners are:

Sony MDR-7506 (thanks cbrophy)
Shnnheiser HD280 Pro (seems very popular)
Shure SRH440 (the company I work for is Authorized Shure Dealer, so that's a big plus)


thoughts?

[kalle74]

Sennheiser HD-25i. Good noise reduction. Been using them for 10+ years.

[TimmyP]

No isolation, best fidelity: Grado (any model, but preferably the 125 or better).

Good isolation, very good fidelity: M-Audio IE10 buds (now discontinued ;-(.

Best isolation, good fidelity: ExtremeHeadphones EX29 (the latest version only). (Some headphone amps are a bit puny for these if you like to listen too loudly.)

Good isolation, decent fidelity: Sennheiser 280.

Lousy isolation, mediocre fidelity: Sony 7506.


All of these are around $100 save for Grado, which run from around $60 to very expensive.

[walker rosewood]

bump. any other opinions?

[f64]

Just went through the same evaluation process and landed up going with BEYERDYNAMIC. Their dt770m is setup for FOH or drummers having a 35dba isolation. Made in Germany, built like a tank yet comfortable, great specs and under 2 bills shipped on feebay. Got them yesterday and no regrets.

[projectMalamute]

I've been using the Equation Audio RP-21's for a while now.

I like them alright.

[adamb1026]

Sennheiser HD-25. Industry standard in any setting.

[JoshB]

I enjoy my Shure SRH840's quite a lot but I also like the Senn. 280's.

[walker rosewood]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I think i'm pretty settled on the Shure SHR440's. They've got the flatest frequency response of all the reasonably priced sets and I can get them for about 50% off.


...sorry for necrobumping.