Over ear headphones?

Yo guys I'm looking to get a new pair of over ear headphones for listening and production on my Ipod Touch when I'm out and about. I use in ears currently which are good but want something that's gonna cancel out noise a bit better. I got an old pair of Sony's which are a bit crap from memory and bashed up some what so now want a pair that'll literally cover the whole of my ears plus have reasonable sound quality. I don't want to spend more than £50 and am looking at the Sennheiser HD 202 Closed Back On-ear Stereo Headphone. What do you reckons?

get the 205s. they are worlds better than the 202s.

AKG K518s... £45

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AKG-Acoustics-518-DJ-Headphones/dp/B000ISP3M4

Headphones related thread number 7852

Anyway.. I have these. Highly recommend them:

http://www.amazon.co...26740180&sr=8-1

Thanks guys .... you have suggested a lot! Do all these headphones totally cover your ears?

IEMs are probably better for cancelling out noise on your commute than regular headphones, just sayin'

  On 1/16/2012 at 7:52 PM, ganus said:

get the 205s. they are worlds better than the 202s.

In which ways are they better? I've been using 202 for casual listening, and they've served me great. Decent, not be the best sounding but has good frequency coverage.

Get the AKG DJ headphones everybody has these days. They are closed, over ear and very loud and have a lot of impact.

I've got the AKG K450's, they aren't too expensive and the sound is excellent. Only think is that my head is quite big and they feel quite tight after several hours of wearing them

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AKG-K450BLU-K450-Headphones-Navy/dp/B001F6M5DI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326799898&sr=8-1

I got a pair of Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro's yesterday, and they are lush. Very warm and full sounding. Completely enclose the ears with a nice velvety pad

omg Justin Bieber uses them

i did a lot of geeky research in to phones and the akg518 with the foam cut away beat almost any other smalish over ear costing double according to headfi.org

the best in ear phones are the soundmagic pl50's which are a steal for balanced armature design at £40ish tho you will need a little eq to bring the bass out a bit

check out superlux

  On 1/17/2012 at 3:01 PM, soundwave said:

i did a lot of geeky research in to phones and the akg518 with the foam cut away beat almost any other smalish over ear costing double according to headfi.org

Yeah these are the ones I was talking about.

I also have the Beyerdynamic dt 770 pro - they are amazing! Neutral is a different thing, but they are so good to listen to music. Above all stuff like Andy Stott or Actress with a lot of bass and compression. After listening a while with them and switching to a hi-fi I have to use drastic filters in EQ to bomb the bass up, cause I get so used to that much bass, that normal sound sounds like plastic then. Anyway, thanks for the info, that Justin and me have something in common right now

My birthday is coming up so what are the best production headphones 'cause I want to get this right. Cheers.

For home yes, but for outside nooooooooooooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaay - they're as open as a very open thing, he might as well wear a sieve !

'DJ' headphones mentioned above is probably you best bet. The noise cancelling ones generally add so much to the cost without much of an effect so just go for something as closed as possible.

And don't get hit by a car 'cos you can't hear it.

Active noise cancelling headphones sound like shit. Do not use that bullshit for "production."

if you need to listen in loud environments, get IEMs or headphones that passively attenuate noise, by design. If you're using them for mixing, research headphones that are closer to neutral than euphonic. If you're using them for DJing in a club, neutral headphones will probably sound like shit to you, mind.

I use Beyerdynamic DT 770-PRO's (which were already mentioned in this thread) for my production, also modified them with a break away cable about 1' below the cans as I've lost track of how many times I go to stand with my phones on and the chord is trapped under one of the wheels from my chair.

For pleasure I use Ultrasone PRO 900 S's which have forever altered the way I listen to music.

How did you do that with the break away cable? I have the same cans and after a few months of use the cable is already broken at two points. I really don't understand why they produce such high quality cans with such shitty cables. Anyway, I have guarantee for them, but I'm sure it will happen all the time.

try and find a helix cable, I'm tempted to get one.. got some velour pads recently that are really nice for my ears, should have added the helix cable as well.

  On 6/21/2012 at 12:09 AM, goffer said:

I use Beyerdynamic DT 770-PRO's (which were already mentioned in this thread) for my production, also modified them with a break away cable about 1' below the cans as I've lost track of how many times I go to stand with my phones on and the chord is trapped under one of the wheels from my chair.

 

For pleasure I use Ultrasone PRO 900 S's which have forever altered the way I listen to music.

Thanks what version should I get the 250 or 80 ohm ones?

well thats a standard question, if you have an hp amp get 250 else get 80, I have them, can't say that I love them dearly, but I prefer them to AKG's, ...my 2 cents...

80, the output to your iwhatever won't be powerful (i.e. loud) enough unless you also have a headphone amp with the 250 ohm ones.

  On 6/22/2012 at 4:33 PM, Promo said:

  On 6/21/2012 at 12:09 AM, goffer said:

I use Beyerdynamic DT 770-PRO's (which were already mentioned in this thread) for my production, also modified them with a break away cable about 1' below the cans as I've lost track of how many times I go to stand with my phones on and the chord is trapped under one of the wheels from my chair.

 

For pleasure I use Ultrasone PRO 900 S's which have forever altered the way I listen to music.

Thanks what version should I get the 250 or 80 ohm ones?

I'd get 80 unless you have enough power to drive the 250.

edit... what mcbpete said.