Recommend me some good production headphones

Oh yeah, the soldering is irrelevant to our issue here, just the first half where he shows how to open up the phones to get to the port. Here's my own stab at a guide:

Insert tweezers into opposite sides of silver plastic grille for greater leverage. Rotate counterclockwise. Mine required a good bit of pressure.

The grille will snap out of its locked position and become loose. You can take it out with the tweezers or just with gravity.

Now take out the only two screws visible underneath. Gently pry up the white plastic grille enclosure with a small flathead screwdriver. You'll see it has two locking tabs on either side and that it clips in to the head support struts on top. I found it easiest to pop out the tabs one by one with finger pressure/screwdriver and then unclip it from the struts.

Under the audio cables you can see the light grey thing that blocks the port. It's a rubbery thing with adhesive at the edges. Gently pry it up with your tweezers and pull it out, though it seems quite sturdy, I wasn't that careful and didn't break it.

In other words just do the first half of the video, remove the little grey jobby, reassemble and you're done. Viola. Now you "can literally hear Jaco's calluses" as one hilarious head-fi review said.

Nice, thanks man :) Doesn't look too bad, awfully tempted !

Well I made the plunge and .... woah quite a noticeable difference - there's loads more 'thwack' to the bass and the soundstage is waaay more open. The only downside (that's not really a downside) is that they now leak sound considerable more than previously: Gotta make sure I listen to my porn at a low volume ....

EDIT: Flipping heck - think it's even increased the frequency response, can now [just] make out 20Hz playing through them at only a moderate volumme - http://www.audiocheck.net/testtones_subwooferharmonicdistortion.php

Yayyy! Good work sir. Glad you like it too.

I noticed the leakage thing too, I was listening pretty loud and my wife was like HEY HOW LOUD IS THAT and I was like WHAT PRETTY LOUD.

Pretty awesome that such a simple thing helps so much. Maybe it makes them less "reference"-y and more "listener"-y but I don't care.

Aye thanks man - was kind of contemplating new phones as I've had these for over 5 years but it's now like I have, without spending any money!

Although it's given the bass more presence I don't really think it's made them any less reference-y. Was always struggling to mix the

are sony mdr7506's good for djing?

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what's best

Hello headphone people. Those of you who monitor/mix on headphones, or even just use in general. Do I need a headphone amp? Is the quality of sound coming from my audio interface good enough, or does a headphone amp help things?

Most amps on seperate audio interfaces are good enough I reckon. If you're cranking them up to near maximum just to get a decent volume then you've an issue, but if at around half volume they're perfectly comfortable to listen to then you're grand.

Excellent. Top stuff. Cheers.

  On 3/22/2012 at 2:28 PM, The Bro said:

I think I've discovered just from testing out a number of headphones that the audio coming out of my Ipod Touch is terrible - I mean really bad. So my options are the following:

 

1. Upgrade my Ipod Touch 3rd gen to perhaps 4th (hopefully the analogue out is a cleaner brighter signal)

2. Go half digital and half analogue by using a special line out adapter and then plugging in analogue headphones. My favourite I tried were the Urbanears Headphones and I have to say I was impressed and they're only £40. They block out external noise very well and the frequency response right across the board was quite satisfying.

3. The last option is to go totally digital and get some bluetooth headphones and that way I would be getting the purest of signals so would be very good for production. The problem with that route is they're not cheap and it seems again one has to fork out somewhere in the region of £150 for a decent pair.

 

In conclusion I think the more I look into it the more I'm beginning to see massive massive short comings of analogue signals in general. It seems we're very much in the dark ages with this stuff.

Love DT150s too, they're so fucking sturdy and although the sound isn't perfect they're good enough for most things in and there's plenty of punch. Closed-backs are never gonna be all open and lush but at least you can record without changing cans ey?

Gonna try that K701 bass mod later too, nice one to whoever posted that.

It really is a great little mod - always forget I've done it until I hear something with a large soundstage and my ears go: 'fuck me that sounds good!'

Went and tested a load of headphones last night. The K701's really stood out, the bottom end seemed really clean and uncoloured, very close to the way my Adams A7X's sound. Definitely tempted. These are for mixing only, won't be doing much 'listening' on them, you'd still recommend the mod?

Aye, the change is really subtle but worth it - just makes everything 'clearer' rather than changing the EQ response of the thing (which I guess is kinda obvious due it is having less 'plastic' stuff for the sound to pass through)

  On 2/16/2015 at 10:48 AM, BCM said:

 

  On 3/22/2012 at 2:28 PM, The Bro said:

I think I've discovered just from testing out a number of headphones that the audio coming out of my Ipod Touch is terrible - I mean really bad. So my options are the following:

 

1. Upgrade my Ipod Touch 3rd gen to perhaps 4th (hopefully the analogue out is a cleaner brighter signal)

2. Go half digital and half analogue by using a special line out adapter and then plugging in analogue headphones. My favourite I tried were the Urbanears Headphones and I have to say I was impressed and they're only £40. They block out external noise very well and the frequency response right across the board was quite satisfying.

3. The last option is to go totally digital and get some bluetooth headphones and that way I would be getting the purest of signals so would be very good for production. The problem with that route is they're not cheap and it seems again one has to fork out somewhere in the region of £150 for a decent pair.

 

In conclusion I think the more I look into it the more I'm beginning to see massive massive short comings of analogue signals in general. It seems we're very much in the dark ages with this stuff.

just wanted to post this again

 

my gf has a pair of bluetooth sennheisers and fair enough, she commutes a lot and can answer the phone with them (shes manages projects so phonecalls are important) but, i really didnt like the sound, at all. not worth the money imo! i wouldnt ever say this to her but they were crappy

Just done the K701 mod, definitely more whack to the bass now, worth doing, cheers.

Forgot what a bitch they are to get open though, had to semi-destroy the grill on one side (the side I'd never opened) to get in.

Aye that was definitely the 'trickiest' moment for me, luckily I had at hand a couple of really thin screw drivers that I could fit between the holes in order to rotate the grill - apart from a [really tiny] scuff on the metal you can't see any damage at all luckily !

  On 9/6/2011 at 9:17 PM, MrSparkle666 said:

Sennheiser hd280 pros. I actually prefer them to much more expensive headphones. Can't go wrong with them.

I have these but I'm considering buying new phones. My funds are limited tho so might stick with what I've got and spunk my money on other gear instead.

Anyone got any other thoughts on the Sennheisers 280 pros?

Cheers