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Technics RP-DH1200 headphones review
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| roosh |
Do not buy these headphones unless you only do single ear monitoring.
First the good: they are stylish and comfortable... they fit nice on my head, with EXCELLENT sound quality.
But... that sound quality means nothing because these headphones have absolutely no noise cancelling effects. You will have these on and you can hear everything around you, including conversations people are having 10 feet away (no joke). What happens is you have a monitor speaker blasting away and you have to jack up your headphone volume to dangerous levels so you can hear whats in them. So one side is very loud with the track playing (because of the speaker you can hear everything) and the other side with the cue'd track is barely audible. I had a set last night and it was very frustrating. I found the headphones box so I'm returning these asap. They cost $150.
I have the pioneer dedj-5000's which cancel out noise great but the sound quality is deteriorating on me. I guess I'll go for the hdj-1000 next. |
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| Freak |
Interesting...
Im awaiting my fourth (in 2 months!!!) warranty replaced pair of pioneer HDj1000s to break (i give it about a month tops) and then i was going to try out a pair of these....
Hmm
Try before you buy methinks |
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| Unknown DJ |
| lol freak. what the hell do u do to them? had mine a fair while and they r still fine :D |
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| chesco |
| quote: | Originally posted by roosh
Do not buy these headphones unless you only do single ear monitoring.
First the good: they are stylish and comfortable... they fit nice on my head, with EXCELLENT sound quality.
But... that sound quality means nothing because these headphones have absolutely no noise cancelling effects. You will have these on and you can hear everything around you, including conversations people are having 10 feet away (no joke). What happens is you have a monitor speaker blasting away and you have to jack up your headphone volume to dangerous levels so you can hear whats in them. So one side is very loud with the track playing (because of the speaker you can hear everything) and the other side with the cue'd track is barely audible. I had a set last night and it was very frustrating. I found the headphones box so I'm returning these asap. They cost $150.
I have the pioneer dedj-5000's which cancel out noise great but the sound quality is deteriorating on me. I guess I'll go for the hdj-1000 next. |
Is this the new technics model??
I've recently reverted back to using my technics rpdj1200's from the pioneers.
in love them to bits, the only thing i find annoying is the earcup doesn't swivel. |
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| Freak |
yeah its the new model- just been released.
It looks impressive, but ill reserve judgement until ive tried them.
Cheers for the info
Unknown dj- absolutely nothing. Check my past threads for this farce- the last pair broke after three uses (although the original pair did last 6 months before something broke and rattled inside)...sony syndrome all over again. |
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| DjVash |
| quote: | Originally posted by Freak
Interesting...
Im awaiting my fourth (in 2 months!!!) warranty replaced pair of pioneer HDj1000s to break (i give it about a month tops) and then i was going to try out a pair of these....
Hmm
Try before you buy methinks |
I recently did a checkup with our warranty database. Apparantly we've received more broken HDJ-1000's then Sony MDR-V700's! You're not the only one ;) |
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| beats and beeps |
| Thanks for the review! i was just about to pick up a pair, but with no sound isolation, it looks like ill be sticking with my rpdjs. |
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| Shudder |
| i got both this and the rpdj1200. have yet to test them in a really loud environment so i got nothing much to say. i like them though... |
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| razzi |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjVash
I recently did a checkup with our warranty database. Apparantly we've received more broken HDJ-1000's then Sony MDR-V700's! You're not the only one ;) |
thats pretty interesting.. how many v700 and hdjs were sold? what is the rate of returned broken headphones to amount sold? haha just curious |
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| chesco |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjVash
I recently did a checkup with our warranty database. Apparantly we've received more broken HDJ-1000's then Sony MDR-V700's! You're not the only one ;) |
I can vouch for that.
I've also sent back three pairs. |
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| DjVash |
| quote: | Originally posted by razzi
thats pretty interesting.. how many v700 and hdjs were sold? what is the rate of returned broken headphones to amount sold? haha just curious |
We've sold more V700's then HDJ's, simply because the V700 is older. During the hype we also sold a lot of HDJ's, and more then 1 in 10 breaks. |
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| Briden |
| quote: | Originally posted by roosh
Do not buy these headphones unless you only do single ear monitoring.
First the good: they are stylish and comfortable... they fit nice on my head, with EXCELLENT sound quality.
But... that sound quality means nothing because these headphones have absolutely no noise cancelling effects. You will have these on and you can hear everything around you, including conversations people are having 10 feet away (no joke). What happens is you have a monitor speaker blasting away and you have to jack up your headphone volume to dangerous levels so you can hear whats in them. So one side is very loud with the track playing (because of the speaker you can hear everything) and the other side with the cue'd track is barely audible. I had a set last night and it was very frustrating. I found the headphones box so I'm returning these asap. They cost $150.
I have the pioneer dedj-5000's which cancel out noise great but the sound quality is deteriorating on me. I guess I'll go for the hdj-1000 next. |
you should try the sennheisser HD280 pros, they block out a metric load of sound (that's more than an imperial load if you were wondering)
i was mowing the lawn with them on, and could barely tell the lawnmower was on! |
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