Entry Level Headphones

[stinger]

Hi everyone, I want to buy my first Headphones for producing music (until now I use I-pod headphones). I'm a beginner so I need some tips about brand and model. My budget is around 100 Euros.
Cheers

[forbidden]

audio technica ATH-m50 or the Sony MDR 7506 are pretty much a head and shoulders above all other models in that range. i know AKG has some decent stuff but i'd really just pick between those two.

pretty much everything else is going to be really colored frequency-wise. for production you want the truest representation of your signal path for mix translation. check out http://www.headphone.com/buildAGraph.php and compare different models.

[rockonin]

I use Sennheiser eH 150's which i bought from Maplins for like £20 a while back. I tend to use them mostly when i'm recording at night not to disturb the neighbours. It can produce an ok amount of sub.

[Crimsonghost]

If you can bring your budget up a bit, http://www.amazon.com/Beyerdynamic-770- ... B0006NL5SM thats the way to go.

If not, im using these http://www.amazon.com/Shure-SRH440-Prof ... ure+srh440 and there great.

[Dub_Fiend]

I personally use Bose AE2 Headphones for mixing when I want to hear "up-close" what I'm doing, managed to find some good information on Goldenears.net about the inner workings of it (Bose notoriously don't provide this information for some reason)... Mainly what I was looking for was frequency response charts to see how everything compared and it's interesting how the Bose and Shure SRH440 (as an example from the previous post) stack up.

As a short aside; OP, if you're not sure what I'm talking about, frequency response charts show how audio signals are sonically altered (or "coloured") by the output medium (i.e. the headphones in this instance). It's better to have less colouration or a 'flatter' frequency response to get the most accurate representation of what you're listening to (something which is important when you're mixing something, obviously).

Bose AE2


Shure SRH440


If anyone else wants to check the reviews, just check out http://en.goldenears.net/... the tests they've done are their own so it's not official stuff but it looks legit so it could be useful to look at when deciding what to buy

[mromgwtf]

Sony MDR-ZX600

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[stinger]

Thank you very much for the answers, now I'm checking some review about the headphones you wrote about...

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

audio technica ATH-m50.

[123kidd]

yes the ATH-m50's
The low frequency response is insane compared to the akg k240's that I use.