millzy said:

or some stupid shit you can wear around your neck when you're out. by the way, seriously, stop doing that.

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jewunit said:

millzy said:

or some stupid shit you can wear around your neck when you're out. by the way, seriously, stop doing that.

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No, fuck you. I didn't buy them to be ear muffs, and sometimes I'm not listening to music. I don't understand why some people get so worked up over it. Who cares where my headphones are as long as I'm not trying to put them on your head?

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i bought mine to listen to music. i don't wear them like jewelry. if i go out in public i have these really cool things called ear buds.

teamkiller said:

i got to listen to some high end headphones recently.  Felt bad man they all sounded like shit to me.

edit: oh specifically i'm talking about the senn 650's.  Sounded like absolute shit now i don't believe a word of what head-fi says.

The best below 1000$ was the various grados, but to my ears the bass was severely lacking on them. 

I haven't listened to others in the series yet, but so far i like the senn 555's best.  Its got some bass, its got some balance. 
wait no actually i like my technics best, pretty good sub bass for a headphone, much  much better than any other headphone i've heard in fact.  I've been wanting to demo some of the higher end DJ headphones.  If i like them i'm sure i'll make a thread about it.

I dunno, to me if there is no sub, the music sounds dead, no matter how clear the highs or how nice the staging.

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teamkiller said:

I dunno, to me if there is no sub, the music sounds dead, no matter how clear the highs or how nice the staging.

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teamkiller said:

I dunno man.  I got a decent set of studio monitors.  There is very few tunes that don't suffer from lack of sub and the lower end of the bass scale.  drums have low frequencies and low frequency harmonics.  So do those jazz instrument things, so do bass guitars.

Alot of the stuff i got to demo was lacking in just plain bass, not even like sub.

even those  Grado PS500's didn't have any thunk to any of the sounds.  It has nothing to do with being bass boost imbalanced, it has to do with being neutral, which i dunno to my ears anything with the bottom cut off doesn't sound audiophile at all.  If we were to switch it around and cut off everything about 7k or so people would go "wtf who on earth would listen to these"

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teamkiller said:

specifically i'm talking about the senn 650's.  Sounded like absolute shit.

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jewunit said:

pwnasaurus said:

ATH-M50.  It is heralded as the best value headphones you can get, but don't just take it from me - head over to Head-fi, you won't hear enough good things about them.

http://www.head-fi.org/f/

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Add me to the Audio Technica crowd.
Plus they come in white now

But yeah, poke around HeadFi. I spent a bunch of time looking at headphones (I was looking for over ears and same price range as you) and decided on the ATH, but there are a few good options available.

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First time agreeing with Jewunit. Audio Technicas are the shit.

Penguarky Tunguin said:

jewunit said:

pwnasaurus said:

ATH-M50.  It is heralded as the best value headphones you can get, but don't just take it from me - head over to Head-fi, you won't hear enough good things about them.

http://www.head-fi.org/f/

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Add me to the Audio Technica crowd.
Plus they come in white now

But yeah, poke around HeadFi. I spent a bunch of time looking at headphones (I was looking for over ears and same price range as you) and decided on the ATH, but there are a few good options available.

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First time agreeing with Jewunit. Audio Technicas are the shit.

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I have a pair of Audio Technica - EM9r's. me or go to the marketplace. I'm trying to get rid of them.

teamkiller said:

I dunno man.  I got a decent set of studio monitors.  There is very few tunes that don't suffer from lack of sub and the lower end of the bass scale.  drums have low frequencies and low frequency harmonics.  So do those jazz instrument things, so do bass guitars.

Alot of the stuff i got to demo was lacking in just plain bass, not even like sub.

even those  Grado PS500's didn't have any thunk to any of the sounds.  It has nothing to do with being bass boost imbalanced, it has to do with being neutral, which i dunno to my ears anything with the bottom cut off doesn't sound audiophile at all.  If we were to switch it around and cut off everything about 7k or so people would go "wtf who on earth would listen to these"

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No offence, but that is a bunch of BS.
They are open back design, NOT CLOSED design, two different sounds. My PS500's provide PLENTY of bass, it's just tight, not colored, or exaggerated. The music you were demoing is a huge thing, You just do not like the Grado sound, fine, but they are not shit.

Source, power, and quality of sound are everything, in real life, there is not as much bass... it is a difficult thing to explain.

Pompous if you will - with time

In fact, I would NEVER get rid of the PS500's - the clarity is mind BLASTING. LAYERS, Difficult music, becomes far more spaced out, and gives each sound it's own life, instead of drowning it with one Tone of rhythm.

Some music supports many many layers, needing a separation.
Pumping bass is not as important as you make it seem; to you it is, but you obviously have specific tastes that require it.

Just stick with Sony, better yet, go get some Beats.