🎶🙌🏾❤️🔥 Such a great video!!! I love all of these!!! Especially the Audeze and Sony- reminds me of our experience at Sony studios. Unbelievable 🙏🏽🎶🎉🎧
Good breakdown!
It looks like you're reviewing the R70xa, which is the newer version of the R70x, that just came out recently!
I used a pair of AKG K701s for over a decade and absolutely adored them, after about a decade the ear pads started falling apart but there were great cheap replacements available online. Then I got a ridiculously good deal on a pair of Massdrop x Koss ESP/95X electrostatic headphones and they're hands down the best headphones I ever used. They're out of stock now, but paying less than half the price off what the Koss ESP950s cost was an amazing deal. They're a bit lacking in bass by default (though the detail resolution is frankly absurd) but with Oratory1990's EQ presets they are just stunningly good.
Nice seeing Kyoto in the video. She looked happy wearing those headphones. Great video, Sanjay C!
Which one did you think would win?
Nice to see Hifiman mentioned. Having said that, I was surprised to see them in the audiophile category (which automatically makes me think of snake oil). While they do make cheap headphones, the high end models are rated highly among audio professionals. Especially those who mix mainly on headphones.
I have 2 headphones: Closed-back : DT 770 Pro X And Open-back: Neumann NDH 30. I give NDH 30 to my sister, who plugged in real piano and she felt like in heaven LMFAO. I told yeah it costs like 1000$. Better be lmfao. NDH 30 isn't just about sound quality etc. It's about comfort. DT 770 Pro X is comfortable but NDH 30 is like you can use for 20000 hours straight. Playing Gaming, youtube, music etc. I'm progressive trance music producer (also producing bass music as hobby too) btw. I didn't buy NDH 30 for 800$ tho I bought like 200$ 2nd hand. It was a good bet.
The MM-100s are my favorite mixing headphones! Extremely comfortable.
I live in an apartment and doing more mixing so have to watch the volume. My closed back headphone are good, but felt it just wasn't right for low end and they got uncomfortable listening for long time. I decided to get the Sony MDR-MV1 and extremely happy with the sound, definitely better than my monitors at apartment volume. The high end is defined and doesn't fatigue my ears. So big thumbs up to the Sony MDR-MV1.
Great review, as always. You are the best! Thank you for the great videos that you make. You are an inspiration.
FYI the Sennheiser dearVR along with all its plugins are free now!
Cool comparison of super headphones. Thank you. I have lots of headphones, the Sennheiser HD 490 Pro+ are my newest ones which sound great. If I hadn‘t purchased them about a month ago I would probably purchase the Sony ones after this review. And: every time your puppy appears on the screen a big smile comes up my face … By the way: because of the Sennheisers I also bought a better monitor controller: the Radial Engineering Nuance Select. I would say: a high end piece of gear, but very spartan equipped in comparison to the Machie Big Knob Studio + which I replaced. Perhaps you could do a review about that …
I am extremely satisfied with the "Hifiman Ananda Nano" paired with a "Topping" amplifier (recommended by Paul Third). And for mixing you can use the Harman curve 😁👍
I use HD 490 Pro, perfect for my producing....
Just so folks know all the Dear Reality software is currently free and there are profiles for almost 50 headphones on their mix vst.
As for build quality, I have used most of the brands tested and the only one to let me down (so far) is Audio Technica. Their fake leather started to peel off after only two years of use (both from the ear cups and the headband), which made me thrown the headphones away. Have 10-20 year old AKG, Hifiman, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser and Denon headphones that are still going strong.
I own the DT 900 Pro X and I really like them. I also have the DT 990 Pro and the HD 560 S — each of them has something I enjoy, even though they're different 😀 I'm thinking about getting the HE400se
Hi have you ever used The Shure SRH1840 I open backed headphones I have been using these now for the past few years I love them I have been so impressed by them that I bought a Second pair In 2021 They have a natural accurate sound with accurate bass and they have an amazing ability to bring out the fine details of a recording as long as you give them high quality audio sources I use them for all home listening tv film gaming and music listening. As a gaming headphone they are again amazing Nuances in vocals are revealed with these I use them with an Arcam RHEAD headphone amplifier they do require amplification as well as I say high quality audio sources They are also very light and very comfortable to wear for long periods of listening Easily the best open backed headphones I’ve ever heard and used
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