Excellent Isolation Headphones

[stevep]

Originally Posted by earldrum

Yes I have, they do not sound that great when compared to the HD 280, 7506, or even the extreme isolation headphones, but the price is very good and will get the job done. I have been using Metrophones isolation headphones for about five years and I like the sound, but they do not hold up that well. I am thinking of the trying the new version of the Extreme Isolation Headphones - they sound better I hear.

Earl

Cool, Thanks

Yea, i have a few 280s and they work well
so i guess ill stick with those for my closed cans

[midnightsun]

I have just spent a week with these earphones that I purchased on lark while stuck in an airport. Initally, I was underwelmed, especially at the price of 450 dollars. I soon realized that the various ear sleeves-- foam, rubber, plastic, etc made a huge difference. After several days I hit upon a sleeve that I modified and it was like magic-- it had a very comfortable feel, good seal, and allowed a stable consistent positioning. Wow.

I am now totally blown away with what I am hearing with these little monsters. I am hearing things that I have never heard before. I can't wait to use them for isolation phones in the studio. They do a good job in and of themselve for isolation, but think they would be way good with my shooting ear protection cups simultaneously.

[StuartMac]

Originally Posted by Blast9

DT300 --- Specs look good! How's the sound on these? Are thay boxy or bass-shy like the DT100s?

I have four sets of DT300s, four sets of DT100s and a set of Extreme Isolation headphones. When singers come in they often want the DT100s (largely because they recognise them) and I always suggest they listen to the DT300s as well. Nobody has ever asked for the DT100s afterwards.

I can't understand why the DT300s aren't better known. They sound way, way better than DT100s, isolate far better, and cost less! The only downside is they're not modular like the DT100s, but they ARE only £80.

[noone]

Has anyone experience with ultrasone closed headphones (proline 650 or 750) and how they isolate?

[barbital]

I tried the Ultrasone 750 which was a closed model. A friend's 750, and his sounded a LOT better than mine because mine hadn't been burned in. He had at least 500 or so hours runtime on his 750s. This was through the Benchmark DAC1 headphone output. A few months ago. Beautiful...absolutely beautiful...headphone amp.

I can only really talk about his pair of Ultrasone 750s, because mine didn't sound nearly as good as his pair. Mine were very new. I sold them because I was disappointed, then I read they needed a LOT of burn-in, so I'm planning on buying them again.

Funny thing is, it didn't sound anything like a closed headphone at all. Sounded wide and deep, with very three dimensional imaging. I could easily pan instruments with these. Most headphones were a nightmare trying to do any realistic panning. Reverb and compression were also easily discerned with superb detail. The presentation was very speaker like, sounded more like a pair of monitors than a pair of headphones. The bass was very visceral and I could have sworn I felt it in my chest as much as through my skull especially on those huge thunderous bass drums. Very very deep bass. Well below 20Hz.

At low levels they were phenomenal. Smooth with deep rich bass and beautiful top end, slightly bright but very well extended.

But these bitches can bite. Hard. Very #$%&ing hard. When they were driven too loud they got nasty in the overall frequency response, the low mids sounded hollow, like a 50% mixed bandstop filter effect had been placed over them and the highs were unbelievably cruel, the bass sounded like it was DIed through a cheap amp. Terrible.

Low levels with these headphones guys. Low levels. I can't stress this enough.

Never heard the 2500s but I'm really curious. Are the 2500s better or worse? Or different? Different midrange? Bass? Top? I dunno, never heard 'em but if someone has I'd like to know more about them. I know some say open phones are better than closed, but that is more in general. I'm not sure about this when it comes to Ultrasones.

But they are the most natural sounding headphones I've ever heard. Not really like headphones at all, more like a speaker system with HUGE low end extension.

Ben