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Headfones (pg. 28)
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| Izzy |
ok last night i DJ'ed at a wedding... nearing the end of my set ALL OF A SUDDEN the my right side of the headphone (they are brand spanking new Sennheiser HD280 pro) stops sending me sound!!! only the left on working... at first i though it was due to the mixer, maybe the cue'ing with the signal was loose. i thought i would give my mixer a good overview when i got home BUT when i got back home today and hooked up my headphones to my laptop i found out that it was the headphones fault.... WHAT SHOULD I DO? im freaking out, tomorrow i was planning on calling the yahoo shopping page that you linked in your sig gluegun. i would hate to have to send them back and wait for new ones (waste of shipping money to there and time, i need them to DJ this weekend) any recommandations in the meantime?
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| Gluegun |
Dude, every single piece of that headphone is replaceable. Email Sennheiser USA about how to figure out exactly what piece is broken, and ask at head-fi.org about things to do to fix it. You need not REPLACE it just yet -- you might be able to fix it and get it working again with a little handiness...
If you have to have something *immediately*, remember, it IS possible to beatmatch with only one side working.. :) |
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| oDrori |
Help me please with this:
In a local store there are some models of Senheisser that I know nothing about... the thing is I'm looking for HD280 and they don't have it, but they do have HD270, HD433 and others... Would they be much different? |
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| Izzy |
OK, heres an update...
i took apart each side of the headphone, both left and right, to make ssure all the cables hadnt jiggled out of place. i took every piece apart as instructed by the manual and put it back together... but to no avial. the right side of the headphone still wasnt sending anything out. i called HiFi Concepts but they wouldnt give me an exchange because i had thrown out the original sennheiser box :mad: i mean come on i didnt expect to be sending a set like that back for exchange, let alone in less then 2 weeks of having it. anyways i called SennheiserUSA and they recommended i send it to them for them to fix it since it is under warranty. so in about half an hour im going to make the trek to the post office, pay shipping, and then wait until however many days (probably weeks) until i get my headphones back, argh im so frustrated. |
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| Gluegun |
| quote: | Originally posted by oDrori
Help me please with this:
In a local store there are some models of Senheisser that I know nothing about... the thing is I'm looking for HD280 and they don't have it, but they do have HD270, HD433 and others... Would they be much different? |
Yes, those are VERY VERY much different! When buying headphones, the most important rule is to *get the exact model number that works*!! Headphone companies roll out soooo much crap as well as good stuff, and the model numbers are very confusing... check headphone.com for a view of some of the most recent models... |
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| hapamoto |
| ok this may have been covered already.. my situation.. i have the sony mdr v6's and love them to death.. they are perfect at my apt and even at house parties.. however, i took them to the club last friday and realized that they couldn't handle the volume i was putting through them.. the dj booth at the club is really poorly designed and has monitors really in ur face, so i can't hear through the headphones unless volume is way up and at that point, its just a bunch of fuzz and indistinguishable noise.. so my thoughts are that the v6 (although i've read otherwise) can't handle enough power. in order for me to have a clean sound i had to lower the volume too much so that i couldn't hear anything over the banging monitors. so now im looking at getting some headphones for club use and basically cant decide between the v700dj and the hd-280pro's.. i've had experience w/ the v700's quite many times and truely think that the sound quality sucks compared to my v6's and that makes me feel stupid paying twice as much for a pair of headphones that can handle more power but sound like , however, i don't know anything about the hd280's some im skeptic as to if they can handle as much power as the v700's before farting. and the hd280s are cheaper, not cheap enough, but i guess i can't go on w/ the v6's since they can't take big volumes. |
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| ShadySlim |
| hapamoto, it's not always that the V6's can't handle enough power. Have you even begun to realize that the headphone outputs on the mixers that you're using are beginning to clip themselves at or above a certain volume-control setting, no matter which pair of headphones that you're running the output through? And muddy/detailless-sounding headphones such as the V700DJ tend to mask the REAL problems of overdriving the headphone outputs themselves. And the headphone jacks built into mixers tend to be crappy, to begin with. :p :p :p |
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| fzrr |
| quote: | Originally posted by Izzy
ok last night i DJ'ed at a wedding... nearing the end of my set ALL OF A SUDDEN the my right side of the headphone (they are brand spanking new Sennheiser HD280 pro) stops sending me sound!!! only the left on working... at first i though it was due to the mixer, maybe the cue'ing with the signal was loose. i thought i would give my mixer a good overview when i got home BUT when i got back home today and hooked up my headphones to my laptop i found out that it was the headphones fault.... WHAT SHOULD I DO? im freaking out, tomorrow i was planning on calling the yahoo shopping page that you linked in your sig gluegun. i would hate to have to send them back and wait for new ones (waste of shipping money to there and time, i need them to DJ this weekend) any recommandations in the meantime?
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Just making sure...but have you checked that the headphone adaptor jack is screwed in properly? Because if i don't screw it in properly on my headphones i only get sound out of one ear. |
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| DJ Charlie |
Ok..
I just bought a Sony MDR-V500DJ...
Here is my little review: "Great !"
Now let's wait to see if they'll brake easily like the V700 everyone is talking about. |
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| Gluegun |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Charlie
Ok..
I just bought a Sony MDR-V500DJ...
Here is my little review: "Great !"
Now let's wait to see if they'll brake easily like the V700 everyone is talking about. |
Okay, if you knew we talked about all of this, than why did you get the v700dj?? i mean, at LEAST get something from IXOS or Technics... |
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| hapamoto |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadySlim
hapamoto, it's not always that the V6's can't handle enough power. Have you even begun to realize that the headphone outputs on the mixers that you're using are beginning to clip themselves at or above a certain volume-control setting, no matter which pair of headphones that you're running the output through? And muddy/detailless-sounding headphones such as the V700DJ tend to mask the REAL problems of overdriving the headphone outputs themselves. And the headphone jacks built into mixers tend to be crappy, to begin with. :p :p :p |
so what do you recommend that i get? i mean honestly I love my v6 sound, i just wish that it could produce that quality at really high volumes. but i need a headphone for live performance in loud areas, because at home, i won't need something expensive because the v6's are perfect, basiccally i just need a headphone for AND ONLY for club gigs,so i don't really care too much about quality as long as they can give me a clean sound at high volume.. so any suggestions, the main reason i didn't wanna go the v700dj route is because they are a lot of money for something i'd be using once a week.
what can you guys tell me about Pioneer's:
SE-DJ5000 ($99.99)
HDJ-1000 ($159.99) |
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| Gluegun |
| Hapamoto, you should not only look at stuff from Pioneer, but also stuff by Ixos and by Technics... |
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