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06-28-2007, 12:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Tokyo, Japan | | | Headphones
Hi,
I'm looking for recommendations on some good can style headphones for detailed listening/transcribing. Clear bass not too fat & compressed. Anyone here using the Grados? What are some of your favourite cans?
Thanks very much,
Paul
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07-01-2007, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Westchester, NY | | | Wireless is a good way to go. Just don't get a panasonic. Theres too much noise and they shut off after 30 seconds of silence.
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07-01-2007, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: toronto canada | | | the grados are great I'm searching for mine right now since I've just moved and they are in a box, I'll get the model for you soon but great balanced headphone.
edit: just found them, they are model RS1
Last edited by neal davis : 07-01-2007 at 07:59 PM.
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07-01-2007, 11:05 PM
| | | | I like the AKG K240 as they're light-weight, open (you can hear the phone and doorbell), fairly flat response and less expensive than a lot of comparable sounding studio quality cans. |
07-01-2007, 11:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | The Grado SR60 model is a great value, as long as you don't care about isolation. |
07-01-2007, 11:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Cohn  The Grado SR60 model is a great value, as long as you don't care about isolation. | Do the Grados bleed out (other people can hear your music) too? |
07-02-2007, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Yes, the Grados are nice, but the bleed is significant. I have the SR-80s and they're pretty cool.
I really like the Sennheiser headphones like the HD580. A little less hyped highs and very comfortable. Warm lows. |
07-02-2007, 10:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: toronto canada | | | what I've noticed about the grados which is nice with the bleed, if you are really trying to notice a little nuance that is buried in the recording cup your hands around the cans and it jumps out a bit more to you since the low freq are coming from the outside of the headphone, you can even hear the really good edits that van gelder did alot easier on so many blue note recordings even easier like this |
07-02-2007, 03:08 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | | Sony 7506 and/or V600. I don't go home without 'em. |
07-03-2007, 09:01 AM
| | crosswind downwind bass | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tacoma WA | | | +1 on the 7506
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07-03-2007, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Tokyo, Japan | | | Thanks for the replies everybody.
Yeah Neal, I found some good literature on the RS1 and 2 models on goodcans.com. They sound very interesting. |
07-03-2007, 12:10 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | | beyerdynamic DT770 is my favorite pair. lightweight, very comfortable, and perfect detail. they sound a little sweeter than most headphones i've heard.
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07-08-2007, 08:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Atlanta MI 49709 | | | I just got a set of the Bose QC3 headphones on a trip to Minneapolis while visiting my son. Pricey, $350, but these things are great. Really cut down on ambient noise, 70db advertised, very significantly. And, the wound is great on my Radio Shack portable radio or iPod. I use them just about everyday to "be by my self".
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