Woah. Since when did people HERE, of all places, begin to use kickass-sounding, awesome-for-trance, not-made-for-djs, completely-just-for-listening-in-a-quiet-environment headphones like the SR-80's?

Are the Techniqs RP-1200DJ good?

Yes, they are pretty good, but one doesn't buy a set of headphones just because they are supposedly 'good'. One buys a set of headphones for their specific needs. Here, we can assume, "you'll be using them for DJing", but, there's more to it, you know? Is it gonna be live? Do you need incredibly exaggerated midbass? Do you ever plan to use them for other sorts of mixing? What types of DJ-features do you need? Is it okay if the earpieces only flip up, or do you need them to bend in other strange ways, for comfort? Do you need them to bend or fold at all? How much outside noise do you need them to block out? What is your price range? Can you buy online? Do you want them to go over your ears or around them? Will you be using htem for normal music listening? Will you be plugging them into a headphone jack with some decent power?

Questions like that.

In my case - since money doesnt fall from thesky in my area..
i would get the V6's because they are so much BETTER VALUE than any of the MoS headphones..
while the V6's are at US$70, the IXOS DJ1001's are like $150!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now dont tell me your going to get the MoS headphones when u can buy 2 V6's!

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Originally posted by Gluegun Woah. Since when did people HERE, of all places, begin to use kickass-sounding, awesome-for-trance, not-made-for-djs, completely-just-for-listening-in-a-quiet-environment headphones like the SR-80's?

...ever since someone decided to replace his $30 Phillips with something *nice*. For me, I needed something that could suit my compilation mixing needs, and the superb sounding Grado SR-80's do just that for 80 bucks.

I loved trance before, but now I am just mezmerized...rapture taste so sweet

You know, the Alessandro Music Series Ones are the "musician's" counterpart to the Grado SR-80's, more balanced, made more for musicians/people doing mixing/recording...

*hums mildly*

http://www.alessandro-products.com/headphones.html

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Originally posted by Gluegun Yes, they are pretty good, but one doesn't buy a set of headphones just because they are supposedly 'good'. One buys a set of headphones for their specific needs. Here, we can assume, "you'll be using them for DJing", but, there's more to it, you know? Is it gonna be live? Do you need incredibly exaggerated midbass? Do you ever plan to use them for other sorts of mixing? What types of DJ-features do you need? Is it okay if the earpieces only flip up, or do you need them to bend in other strange ways, for comfort? Do you need them to bend or fold at all? How much outside noise do you need them to block out? What is your price range? Can you buy online? Do you want them to go over your ears or around them? Will you be using htem for normal music listening? Will you be plugging them into a headphone jack with some decent power? Questions like that.

hmmm.. nice questions
the problem is that i dont really know what midbass is.. and yes im planning to use them for djing sometime soon.. if i get them.. i want them to go over my ear and not on my ear.. i have about 250 $ to spend.. i dunno if i can buy online cause i live in israel and i dunno many places that ship here.. i only plan on mixing trance music no other type of music.. i want them to block all outside noise.. i know thats usefull for djing.. about the earpiece thing.. didn't quite understand what u mean.. can u be more specific?..

Okay...

how about I give you some overkill here, and ask you to read, or at least skim, these three articles?

http://headwize.com/articles/hguide_art.htm

http://headwize.com/articles/judging_art.htm

http://headwize.com/articles/mixing_art.htm

Alright? If you DONT want to read that stuff, fine...I'll try to explain the earpiece deal some more.

Okay, you are aware that many headphones fold to make them more compact and easy to transport, correct?

Many DJ headphones also fold or pivot in many useful ways, usually for one-eared monitoring. The earcups, the whole enclosure mechanism, often pivots. Sometimes, it pivots on the Y axis (front to back), which is useful for DJing because you can just turn your headphone for one eared monitoring, or rest it on your shoulder and only listen to it when you need to. Others pivot over the X axis, up and down, which should still work for one eared monitoring.

The headphones that I tend to recommend here, the Sony MDR-V6's, only pivot on the X axis, up and down... I meant to ask, is that a problem?

Also, as for the earpads themselves, it seems you want CICUMAURAL, or 'around the ears' earpads. The V6's stock earpads are supraural ('on the ears'), and, unless you replace them with a different model of earpads (HIGHLY SUGGESTED), they will remain that way

hey gluegun, im trying to order v6's from that site you put up for $70... but umm, theres no order button beside it... how do u order it? all other headphones have order button, 'cept the v6's

"Sorry! Due to high demand and limited availability we will be out of stock until Jan 7, 2002. "

Huh. Everyone at head-fi and headwize has been ordering it from them, I guess! heheheh!

Well, here is the yahoo shopping link that gives prices...

http://all.search.shopping.yahoo.co...=&rkeys=&clink=

Oh, you are in Canada? I remember ONE local online canada dealer that has he MDR-V6's....forget where it is, though.

Why don't you search for "V6 Canada" at www.headwize.com and www.head-fi.org

???

Cause the shipping situation to canada sucks, LOL! WAyyyy too expensive....

Lessee...some links....

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showt...=&threadid=3297

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showt...=&threadid=3019

http://headwize.powerpill.org/ubb/s...fnum=1&tid=3670

http://headwize.powerpill.org/ubb/s...fnum=1&tid=3931

http://headwize.powerpill.org/ubb/s...fnum=1&tid=3960

And remember! Get the DT250 Velour pads from Beyerdynamic!!

Last edited by Gluegun on Dec-18-2001 at 03:36

hehe, thanks gluegun... who knows what shitty headphones i wouldve bought had i not seen this thread (see mdvr-700 )...
thanks again