Well, in his and every v700dj owners defense, the equipment used on most demoeing isn't exactly top notch anyway, so really bad headphone mixing won't hurt it TOO much cause the sound'll be pretty mediocre to poor anyway.

Source: Technics sl1200 - As far as sound goes, these are actually some mediocre tables, but are used cause they're powerful as hell and built like a bomb shelter.

You then have some cheap plastic interconnects running into the mixer, which probably won't have the most audiophile of jacks or innards either... And from there you have yet another pair of horrible interconnects running to a tape deck... which, no matter how high end, is still a tape deck.

With the sr 60s, you've already got a bass shy and somewhat bright phone, so I wouldn't use that as a reference either.

And I'll retract some of the stuff I said about the eq'ing, since most novice mixers don't even have eqs. But for the ones that do, when you've got a thumping trance record, and most every trance record is thumping if the dj thinks its bass heavy, he'll turn down the low end, not realising that its actually the phones that are bass heavy, so the bass ends up very shy on the end recording. And even for a novice dj its still utterly rediculous to pay that much for a shitty headphone when even a 20$ koss sounds better, though still shitty, heh heh.

I guess my main problem is watching all these djs like paul okenfold, funk master flex, kid kapri, and all these other top name djs who are WHORED by Sony and marketing into chooseing these phones, who actually own GOOD mixers and good equipment, cause then the only weak link they have in their setup is in their phones, and their mixes could be eq'd so much better then they are if they just used some good cans.

Ugh, excuse the ranting, but I'm bored and fucking tired.

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Tall Paul, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, and Mauro Picotto all use the headphones your slammin and they are some of the best Dj's is the world.

Bottom line if you blame your crap mixing on your headphones, odds are your a CRAP Dj, stop blaming equipment for your own personal failure,

LOL, trintiy...

Youre right - there are headphones for DJ monitoring/beat matching, headphones for studio monitoring, headphones for pure music listening... and headphones that are pure crap. The headphones that most of you use kinda belong to the first category (DJ monitoring); the ones Gluegun suggested belong to either the second (studio monitoring) or third (serious music listening) category. Every one of us have different requirements. (Heheheh... I would probably use those V700DJ's for mixing and my 7506's for final mastering...) As I am telling you, Different strokes for different folks.

Peace.

I am looking for a studio headphone for production oriented tasks and I was wondering what everyone thought of the Sennheiser HD-600's. I know that they are expensive but I have read rave reviews about them in a number of popular stereo periodicals and I was just curious if anyone has some actual experience with this particular model that can give me some +/- input. I have used a number of Sennheiser models in the past and (despite the annoying loosening tendency of the headphone plugs) been very impressed with their quality.

Thanks in advance all,

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I enjoyed reading this discussion, and then i went to the store to get info on the sony mdr-v6 but they don't have that, and even sony as importer doesn't have that available. what they do have is the sony mdr-v600, so it's maybe that one?? i don't know, help please

oh my!

invasion of the omniscient headphone gods

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JdDark, the title speaks for itself.

Trintiy: That so-called DJ friend of mine - the one who gave me all of his crappy mixes to listen to - turned out to be a newbie (or a quack DJ)! (That is, he deliberately under-EQ'd the bass and over-EQ'd the highs because he thought the V700DJ's had way too much bass.) He actually EQ'd the mixes on those V700DJ's so that it sounded proper had he listened to Mozart on those same cans! Heheheh... You can't treat trance/techno music the same way as classical music!

I will say this, Screw that quack! He's the REAL MDR-VCRAPDJ!!!

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Originally posted by ShadySlim JdDark, the title speaks for itself.

but where do i buy the mdr-v6 then???

OakeyRidesAnR1: The HD-600's aren't that great for high end studio monitoring (although they ARE great audiophile phones, ie, they can be ONE of the phones you use to make a mix, but don't rely on them). I would suggest the Beyerdynamic DT931's if you need good open phones, or the DT831's if you need good closed ones.

Jdark: try (this is the THIRD TIME I'VE GIVEN THIS LINK) http://www.djmart.com/noname5.html And, for the love of god, the V600's are NOT the V6's! *shudders* the V600's are like the rest of the V###DJ series--crap.


Shadyslim: The reason I'm saying that the V6's are great, over, say, a more balanced set of headphones like the Sennheiser HD25's is because of their slightly exaggerated bass, which helps make them not only studio monitoring headphones, but good for beat matching, too... And besides, if you want to LISTEN to trance, there is, of course, only one ULTIMATE set of headphones to use, and those are the Grado SR-325's.

Hmmmm....I think I probably know why those popular DJ's are so good, even with crappy equipment.. I'll bet you money they don't equalize the sound based on what they hear through there headphones...heheh...

the bass on the V6 is not exagerated!

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hey gluegun, i luv it when someone knows wot they r talking about

how do u know so much about headphones and the likes?

appreciate the knowledge that u've given here, thanz~! (now i'm very eager to get a pair of GOOD headphones for general listening)