Comfortable, natural sounding phones for critical listening.
Saw a detailed video on YouTube that showed, with graphs, how good these phones are. The price was great so I went for them, after months of researching for new phones. These are not "consumer" grade phones; meaning they have not been tuned to enhance any frequencies. They are meant to be reference headphones for studio use. They are quite flat, neutral, even quite dry-sounding headphones that are detail, detail, detail oriented for hearing things in a mix. For that, they exceeded my expectations at this price point. They are very natural sounding; treating lows, mids and highs equally well, for open back phones.
At 200 ohms you may need extra power through a dedicated amp to get the drivers to peak output. My interface would have to be maxed to get them sounding correct and even then, I'm glad I have a dedicated headphone amp for the job. You must make sure you can provide them with enough power.
I needed a new pair of phones to do critical listening to mixes of recording files and these meet that need for me.
The straight cable, which I prefer (not a fan of coiled cables) is shorter than other phones I have but, I am not moving around with them so, they work fine for me. The coiled cable would give a little more latitude with them, though.
A bag or case would have been nice but, they have kept the price down without offering a presentation-type box or traveling case. I'm not going anywhere with them so, works for me.
I'm very happy with them.
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