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Beats By Dre for Practice?

#22
Yaphet said:
Audio Technica ATH-M50x are a great set for playing an instrument through. Nice flat response, very comfortable, comes with an 1/8" to 1/4" adapter and a 3 interchangable cord lengths. About 1/2 the price of Beats and way more useful for musical applications. If you buy Beats, you're going to have a hard time eq-ing out all of the excessive bass... You essentially pay a huge premium to cover the Beats marketing gurus, who are really doing a great job selling lots of garbage headphones.
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+1 to this. I have Audio Technica M-35 and they are actually also excellent for home practice. They cost me about $30, and they blow anything Beats has out of the water. IMO/IME you won't go wrong with picking up any of the Audio Technica headphones (but there have also been a lot of other good ones listed in this thread too).
 
#25
I have both the Audio Technica M-50X and M-70X and can say that they are fantastic headphones for the money. If your application will be mostly bass monitoring then I think the M-50s would be the better choice. For all-around use and studio monitoring I would go with the M-70s. If you're into clarity and detail the M70s can't be beat, for the price. The M-70s will reveal every nuance of your style, good and bad, hence I like them as an instructional tool for my development of technique.
 
#26
Kukulkan61 said:
Beats are fine, your just practicing not performing in a collisium to 300,000 fans...jeez some people gotta disect everything on here..:rolleyes:
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If by 'dissect everything' you mean 'pay less for something that sounds better'...then yes :thumbsup:
 
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get this one, $100 USD interchangeable cable (This is important feature to me when i was choosing an earphone as most earphone i had always has issue in the cable breaking)

Best in ear type of earphone in the market for its price IMHO.

Shure SE215, there is a reason why their Mic is the industry standard and their headphone/earphone has a great price to performance ratio

SE215 Sound Isolating™ Earphones | Shure Americas
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Beats by Dre were never decent, I can't believe the price they ask. I was in a music shop a few weeks ago, thought I'd see if they had got any better by trying the 'studio' headphones.

My £60 Sennheisers are on par with, if not better than the £230 beats studio.

Try some Sennheisers or Audio Technica's. I would suggest getting headphones with a impedance of 32 ohms or above.
 
#37
I feel that for practice going cheap is no problemo as long as you know how to set up your live gear properly. Practicing on el cheapo combos / headphones will improve your ears on the bad sound / monitoring you might get whenever you play live.

IF you want to throw a lot of money at it you might as well get a nice in-ear piece so you can practice with the same thing you're going to use live.
 
#39
I think beats are absolute and utter rubbish - at least for what I use headphones.
For practising however they might do, as would anything at all.
On the cheap I'd have a look at brainwavz M1 in ear phones.
VERY good for the money...and beyond.
 
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