Headphones

The worst part about them is the people who claim that "they have the best sound quality ever" and smugly say that "they're listening to music the way it was intended to sound".

Yeah they are flexiable but I have visions of leaving in my truck overevening when it's -40 and them cracking when they warm up lol. Likely will be a stay at home pair....

Parents sent them to me for a Christmas preset and were quite proud of themselves so I have to keep them lol. Plus the sound is stellar on them believe they are ae2s


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They're not terrible sounding headphones; too bassy but not unreasonably so, particularly if you want to listen to hip hop all the time. But they're a lifestyle product, not a DJ product and certainly not "hifi" gear. And while they look cool, they are not made to take any kind of BEATing -- those pretty one piece headpieces snap in two pretty easily; every display I've seen at best buy or whatever has a broken pair. Whereas as others noted you can twist up the headpiece on Senns or TMAs without worrying about breaking them.

Yeah they are flexiable but I have visions of leaving in my truck overevening when it's -40 and them cracking when they warm up lol. Likely will be a stay at home pair....

Parents sent them to me for a Christmas preset and were quite proud of themselves so I have to keep them lol. Plus the sound is stellar on them believe they are ae2s


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I listened to the V-Modas in the Apple store in SF side by side with some other headphones including TMAs, B+Ws and a few others I don't remember. There were Senns there but not the 25s. Everything sounded better than the V-Modas. Not by much -- I was actually surprised at how acceptable the sound was as I was expecting them to sound like WESCs or Skull Candy -- but they were still my last choice both from a DJ perspective and from a listener perspective. They also were poor in terms of sound isolation, at least compared to other DJ headphones (to me the TMAs - and probably the Senns since the design is similar - provide excellent sound isolation).

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For DJ purposes you should only need 4 things.

1. Hear the frequencies well enough without straining your ears
2. Be loud enough to handle a festival or whopper club sound system
3. Be durable
4. Be comfortable after an 8 hour set.
5. Provide adequate sound isolation.

You don't need an analytical headphone in a loud club, you also don't need the loudest headphone for cueing if you can hear the parts you need. You also don't need the most expensive headphones out there - IMHO picking phones for LIVE dj'ing is a lot easier than a singer or band.

You should know your tracks well enough that once you hear any semblance of a high hat, drum beat, vocal or synth that you can mix the tracks - actual sound quality barely comes into play, so long as you aren't distorting the headphones.

A $15 set of Ross headphones tick almost all the boxes apart from durability.
A $40 set of Sony v500's ticks most of the boxes apart from durability.
A set of skull candy's tick most of the boxes apart from durability.
A set of Beats pro's tick most of the boxes apart from durability.
A set of beats studio's (not pro's) ticks all the boxes
A set of Vmoda's ticks all the boxes
A set of hd25's tick all the boxes
A set of sony mdr-v6 / 7506 ticks all the boxes
A set of T1's ticks all the boxes
A set of Pio HDJ2000's ticks all the boxes

But thats for Live - working Dj'ing though - plain and simple off ear monitoring.

Now when it comes to home/studio/library/ipod/bedroom dj, its a completely different story, you want high quality sound at lower levels + comfort + isolation (so you don't annoy your mum/gf/wife etc ..)

Personally for a multipurpose headphone its the V6's/7506 for me, if i'm on my iPod I use the treble reducer so the edge is taken off and I don't get fatigued, they generally make stuff sound like it should, love it or hate it.

Through the years, I've had Hd25 & SP models for DJ'ing (until stolen) Sennheiser 414's for home listening (really nice cozy headphones), v500's for DJing, Behringer HPX4000 (was stuck), Ross Headphones (Really stuck but they lasted a year) as well as a few more seen models which escape me and a few more "no-name" brands as well.

My Sony's have lasted over 12 long years of abuse now though and sound better than ever and I haven't had any reason to replace them or found anything else that i'm comfortable enough with to try just yet.

Buy well once and you will not need another headphone for years. Its really down to personal preference - the good brands are quite simply good for the most part, pioneer 1000's excluded.