Natural sounding headphones for a bad room

[chemicalwinter]

Hey all,

I am looking for a natural sounding pair of headphones for working on audio in a not so good room. I fear that monitors will not work because the room affects the sound too much. What are some options for good neutral headphones for mixing all styles of music from classical to rock? thanks a bunch!

[Unclenny]

Welcome to ULTRASONE

[chemicalwinter]

Those look mad good but anything a little cheaper that doesnt sacrifice too much quality?

[Harvey Gerst]

Somebody on my forum was raving about the new ATM50 headphones at around $100 each.

[Chrizcol]

sennheiser hd 650

[spish]

i've been using the ATH-M40fs phones for a while *years* now and love them. their response is about as flat as you can get. my only complaint is that the ear-pad and head-pad material wears out (starts flaking away) and needs to be replaced every few years. this, of course, is dependent on usage and your skin's chemical make-up.

-s

[mixerguy]

Originally Posted by Chrizcol

sennheiser hd 650

+1

and a decent headphone amp too... to get the best out of them

[marcan]

HD 650 is too hyped in the bass range for me.
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[marcan]

Look out at the bass frequencies, the image and the reverbs. For me it was the three elements that were obviously different.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

You don't have the physical relation with the bass. Below 80hz, perception of the sound start to come more from the body and less from the ear.<o:p></o:p>

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You don't have the ambience of the room, so you will probably compensate with more reverbs.

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[macleodgrant]

i'm using the sony mdr7509 headphones and they are just brilliant. about a year and a half ago i mixed three tracks, one on the sony headphones and the other 2 on my monitors and by far the best was the mix done on the headphones, they just don't lie. you can get very far with headphones but you need to finalise things using monitors

now with my genelec 8040 & the mdr7509, i get the truth from all angles

[chemicalwinter]

sweet, i like that site, very useful, i think it helped make my decision, but what is harmonic distortion and how would it effect the sound, mixing etc??

[Tom Hakala]

if it sounds good on my 8040's and HD600 i know i'm doing something right