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Yeah glue gun i guess youre right about the 901 speakers being my problem with the headphones,i mean,where the fuck do i plug in the jack? What the fuck does the bose speakers have do do with this topic?I mean are you trying to wind me up,saying they suck cuz i sed the phones suck? I told all you guys the where bad in case you got stupid and bought a set,not to annoy any poor shmuck (like me) who bought a set!
And i dont want fucking anyone being smart commenting on there verdict on the 495s (which where silver,by the way ;-) unless they have tried them on (like me)listened to rock,jazz,pop,hard house,classical,blues,dvd,digital tv(like me) and actually held them to see what a sorry ass,flimsy peice of shite they really are!
Transa, if you said the 495 sucks, chances are that other headphones costing 60 pounds suck EVEN WORSE - all bass and no highs, or weak bass and screechy highs. Unfortunately, you're in a rut here - they (the headphone manufacturers) don't make them like they used to anymore! If you want any better sound than the 495's, you'll have to spend MUCH more money on a single pair of headphones just to do that. And from my experience fully closed headphones (as a group) actually sound WORSE than comparably priced open-air headphones. Listen to classical music through even a GOOD pair of fully-closed DJ headphones, and you'll find out that the DJ headphones will sound artificial - too boomy, with ringing echoing noises that further mar the sound. (In other words, you'll hear nasty sounds that aren't even recorded on your CD's, because closed headphones actually colour the sound significantly, NOT because those nasty echoes were on the recordings.)
BTW, Transa, I was going to recommend you a pair of Grado SR-60 or SR-80 headphones... WAIT! What the f**k's going on with Grado pricing in the UK? Both of those Grados actually cost more (70 to 100 UKP) than the Senn 495's! 
Where the fuck DO you plug the 495's into to get good sound? Well, the thing is (near as I can tell), you're thinking of headphones as just kinda a way to hear noise portably, not as a replacement for speakers. The 495's are more "instead of a set of speakers" kind of thing, and, like speakers, they need something to back them up because they aren't that efficient. Why does one buy an amp with a lot of watts for your car? To make the speakers happy! Same thing with these headphones! Why make a set of headphones that not efficient? Because, more often than not, it sounds better on good equipment than more efficient headphones do, that's why!
Okay, here are some options.
Try plugging them into a decent sound card, like the headphone out of a Hercules Game Theatre XP
Try some ANCIENT (preferably 1st generation) portable CD players by Sony.
Try a decent, well made digital audio reciever or cd player, as high quality ones tend to have decent headphone outs (unfortunately, the bose one doesn't)
Try a dedicated headphone amp. The Headroom Airhead would work PERFECTLY in this situation.
Try the $35 USD Radio Shack 3904 CD Player....*IF* you can find it... No, radio shack doesn't make any good models of cd players other than this one...
http://www.radioshack.com/product.a...%5Fid=42%2D6004
Um,i dont have em any more,and what u want me to buy audio systems to keep my headphones happy now?
No, I want you to buy the Koss KSC-35's for $15 for classical listening, silly.... :P
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| Originally posted by Transa Um,i dont have em any more,and what u want me to buy audio systems to keep my headphones happy now? |
Nope.i took them back the next day,and rammed them up the fuckin managers ass! lol!
Transa, that's a real pity...yea, the build quality coulda been a little better, the volume handling might have been a little bit higher, maybe they should have been a little easier to drive, but they were STILL A GOOD PAIR OF HEADPHONES!
Transa: For DJing, you won't tell me the kind of 200-quid headphones that you use, leaving me to take a guess. I think it's either from Sennheiser or Beyerdynamic (or possibly Vivanco, a brand not widely available in the U.S.); the AKG headphones don't swivel far enough for proper DJ monitoring, and NONE of Sony's or Technics' DJ headphone offerings cost anywhere near that high - and the Sony headphones costing that much neither swivel far enough nor block enough external noises for DJ monitoring. (Note that the prices are in UK pounds.)
Gluegun,have u tried and tested these headphones?Because im not listening do u until u do!Because i was douped by some total ripoff merchant shopkeeper who said thery where all this and that,just like u say,but he never actually heard them,until i took them back,and even he agreed they where shite.
Transa, I used to own a pair of Sennheiser HD 495's, and then returned them less than a month later. Though I had ordered them from a reputable mail-order dealer, I didn't go to such extremes in returning them as you did (i.e. I didn't try to ram them up the f**king headphone-god-for-an-owner's butt); they just didn't quite meet my expectations. I expected them to be light and somewhat flimsy, but I just didn't expect them to be so quiet and so tough to drive. Whether driven from a home Pioneer receiver or driven from a portable add-on Airhead amp, the 495's barely reached adequate loudness for my uses - and then the headphone outputs began to produce distortion and/or clipping noises. And using the 495's directly out of a portable CD player's headphone jack? Fuggittaboutit.
Actually, I'm thinking of getting the 495's...
My Total Airhead amp will drive them quite well...
I'm sorry this is a little bit off the topic, but guys...what do u think is better
Pioneer MDJ-500, or Pioneer MDJ-600 !!!
Max2LC: Give me the product home pages, and....*pause*
Why ya asking ME, of all people, about mixers? Talk to me on ICQ, man...
HEHE
Thanx Gluegun...I'll talk to u on ICQ
ohh yea, cool. Looks like i will be gettin the sony pair. But i read something about a ministry of sound pair. If they are the ones off one of their covers then they look so damn good. Would anyone have a link to the ministry of sound headphones or can tell me more
trintiy, sorry I got Gluegun to dis your beloved Sony MDR-7505 headphones. The drivers used in the MDR-7505 are not those of the crappy MDR-V600's, but are actually those of the now-discontinued MDR-CD570's (decent-sounding for under 60 pounds when that model was in production). 
And Transa, the one who started this f***ing long thread that has been going nowhere:
Which pair of headphones did you eventually buy to replace the Sennheiser 495's that you thought were crap?
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