Get HD 25’s they are awesome and all the parst are replacable.
Not half as annoying as the swiveling cups meaning you need to untangle every three tracks - I hate the bloody things with a vengeance.
Not great if you are a person who can still hear frequencies above 16k
My Sony MDR-V6’s go from 5–30,000 Hz. 13 years old, only needed to replace the pads so far and they are far-far-far from end-of-life.
And are around $70 .. the same headphone as MDR-7506 without the gold connector and few bucks cheaper.
Regards the HD-25 though, The do sound great, nice and light and sit on my head pretty well .. But the cables Ugh!!! FFS Replaceable parts are great and all, but my mates were always needing new cables every other week and they are not THAT cheap.
im going to agree with you on the cables
the red and black connectors (going into the drivers) are the weakest point of the HD25 - after awhile sound will cut off on one side and requires some adjustment to fix
google this and you will find literally hundreds of posts of people complaining of the same thing
my hd25 is starting to go funny again now with the same problem
Beats are cheesy and cliche imo, i just picked up some sonys from best buys that were only 79.99 they are nice and clear with some legit bass. i was gonna go for some Monsters, but i saw these and for the price, it couldnt be beat, especially after listening to the madeon demo they had with em haha, they are built for djing and look nice, as far as durability goes i coudndt say because i have only had them for a month, but so far so good.
I use Numark Electrowaves. I’m a big naysayer of Numark and bought the headphones out of desperation, planning to upgrade soon after, but I’ve actually grown quite fond of them. Comfy as anything, and they’ve got more bottom than Jennifer Lopez.
Those Sonys are great headphones for DJing but they break after a year, almost guaranteed. I went through three sets before looking at other phones because I liked the sound and fit so much. Now I use TMA-1s and love them; perfect sound isolation for my ear shape and the sound is fantastic. I think HD-25s are really similar in terms of sound signature and fit. Some people prefer over-ears for isolation; to me those always sound leaky (I’ve used A+H XD-53s and Ortofon O-1s quite extensively and while both sound phenomenal - the Xones a bit better or at least louder - I had to turn them up too loud in loud clubs for my comfort level due to leakage). But this really depends on the shape of your ears and head because I have seen people say the exact opposite about the same cans.
If your budget is around $100 then the Sonys will be good for a year or so until you can afford better cans; hopefully they won’t break before that. In the same price range you really can’t go wrong with the Xone XD-40s or the Pioneer HDJ-500s, both of which will run $99 list. A bit more you can afford the ATH-50s which have a great reputation (I haven’t listened to them myself but people whose ears I trust swear by them for production) for about $150 or so. But if you can afford to go a bit higher I highly recommend the TMA-1s or the XD-53s if you prefer over-ears.
those are what i use and i like them very much. i was able to get 2 pairs new (one for me and my gf) from guitar center for $75 each by a slick price matching deal a couple of years ago. you can grab them for about $120 now. they sound great to me and are pretty comfortable but i hit my threshold at about 2 hours of constant wearing. that seems to happen on most headphones for me though.
i was considering a pair of beyerdynamics as well, but when i got that deal on the ath50s i had to take it as i couldn’t find a lower price on those. i will say the dts are the most comfortable headphones i’ve ever tried on…by leaps and bounds. it’s like wearing velvet pillows and they sound great too.
The 25s work for me but I’m deaf. The AKG 701s are an amazing headphone for the price if a little ugly.
Hope you mean the V700/500 ?
The v700’s are IMHO are overweight, badly designed (crack at the hinge) and wayyyy over exaggerated bass and sure to last a year maybe where the 7506/V6 just keep giving for decades.
Yes exactly the ones sorry I thought those were the ones talked about. The bass isn’t any more exaggerated than most DJ headphones in my opinion; in general their sound is really nice. But yeah that crack at the hinge is exactly what happened to three different pairs I had … Sorry I didn’t remember the numbers; I think the last time I used a set was 2001 or something.
What headphones under 100 bucks do you think are the best??
Try this link
The best headphones for you are the ones you think sound best to you.