AIAIAI TMA-1 vs. Sennheiser HD 25-1 II
title says it all looking for a new pair of headphones and looking for your thoughts..
I believe there are a few different threads on the forums actually comparing both of those among other cans. It has a lot of opinions and has other interesting information as well.
ya i looked but i want to see if anyone has both and could do a solid comparison
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/539120/tma-1-vs-hd25-1-ii-vs-esw9-and-others
Quite a few other threads on various sites about this too – try this link for more: LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
Consensus seems to be that both are excellent sounding; the Senns might be better for production but possibly a bit less “fun” to listen to as they are more clinically accurate while the TMAs are more colorful, especially in the low end. I have the TMAs and absolutely adore them but had they not come out when they did I am sure I would have ended up buying the Senns.
there’s more than a few 
I know 
, was just trying to be polite! I mean only 3 of these threads pop up a week! :eek:
In an attempt to reinforce bad behavior of completely ignoring the search button…
I have the senns and love them. I wouldn’t replace them with the TMA-1s. I’d either get cheaper headphones or IEMs if I bought something else…by that, I mean I’m shopping for IEMs at some point.
HD25’s you can replace everything, so theyre near un-breakable, the tma’s after a few times in and out the gig bag look really scuffed and lose their classy look, both sound amazing, but tbh id go for the senns unless you get a really good deal on the TMA’s
I use the HD 25s.. I think they’re really amazing. Every time I have people put them on they ask me if they have noise reduction and I just smile. I want to try the TMA-1s. I think the only downfall of the HD 25s is the headphone cable. Mine is really low gauge. I have seen other people’s and they look just like the TMAs, mine look like something right out of a $30 headphone. Granted there is no performance difference.
imo the ONLY bad thing i see about TMA-1 is the fact that they tend to fall of your head easily. They are not as “tight” as the HD25. That’s the only thing i regret about them, but beside that they are just awesome.
http://www.skratchworx.com/reviews/headphones_2010.php
The more I read about HD25’s, the more I desperately want a pair. The fact that just about every part of them are replaceable warms the cockles of my heart.
Now if I could find a place that had them around me so that I could fit them on my big dome to see how comfortable they are 
. I’m big on cirum-aural cans, but I would certainly be willing to ditch that for the right set.
Just be sure your head isn’t too big.
I’ve got quite a big head myself and I get (major!) headaches if I put the sennies on my head. 
Well, I’ll still try them on and test it out, but it may be tough to have to sit and demo them for an hour, to really gauge how comfortable they would be for any extended period of time. The time however, would be well spent for something I spend a large portion of my life wearing… Unfortunately I don’t know anyone who owns a pair to take for a test drive, unless someone in the DJTT community would be so kind as to mail me their Senns
Can’t comment on the HD25’s but I got some TMA-1 last week and I love them, real comfy, superb isolation, great sound, they don’t fall off my head but thats probably because my head is larger then average
Would anyone recommend the TMA-1s for general ipod use as well as DJing?
If your used to wearing actual headphones then these are ideal, I find them so comfy and they hardly weigh anything
If I didn’t already have the HDJ 2000’s I would get one of these…
aaah some of their designs are so sick
Aiaiai tma-1 vs. Sennheiser hd 25-1 ii
Frequency Response: Weight without cable:
TMA-1 20 to 20.000 Hz 190 Gram
HD 25-1 II 16 to 22.000 Hz 140 Gram
hope i helped