Headphone assistance!
10 years ago
General
Begin transmission I'm looking into buying some Skullcandy Crushers.
Are they pretty good or should I be looking into an alternative?
Are they pretty good or should I be looking into an alternative?
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Of all the headphones I've used, these are the best in my opinion, cheap and reliable.
Like it has a slider to adjust how much it has
But i say with an amp because on their own they aren't made for the best sound output on their own.
But my upstairs neighbor has that stuff, and he can put the bass up so high that the headset will shake off his head.
I'm personally using a pair of Klipsh Image One headphones I picked up for $3 from Goodwill. :B
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The 518's are the best headphones I've ever owned. The 439's are definitely cheaper over all, but still seem to produce good sound quality for the price.
Sony MDR-V6
Grado SR-60
The Sony MDR-V6 are closed-ear headphones, this means that you wont be able to hear much around you with them on. They are functionally similar to the Sony MDR-7506, which use many of the same parts, the latter uses a different cable and has different frequency response. I have replaced the pads with Beyerdynamic pads and the cable with a Sennheiser one. This pair of headphones is 9 years old.
I use Grado SR-60s at work and when out and about (I have two pair), I use them with the SR-225 pads and have replaced the cable on one of them with a Sennheiser cable. These are open-ear which means you can hear most stuff from your surroundings, hence why I use them where I do. They also have better response than the Sonys. One pair is 11 years old and the other is at least 7, but Im not sure because it was given to me by a co-worker.
The cable replacements have been because I have worn out the previous ones, same with the pads, although I recommend the Grado pads be replaced as an upgrade.
I am currently looking for decent material to make new cables from scratch, as I am kinda odd like that.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005N8W1EW/ The 219s are a great balance between quality and price if you don't want to spend too much and while it's hard to go wrong with Sennheiser, you definitely get what you pay for. If you ever buy these you might want to get a 6ft extension cable to go with it, these are good for home use but they're intended for MP3 players and stuff so the cable's a bit short.
(I also personally recommend looking into getting a sound card if you use a tower PC + have a free PCI slot + don't already have one installed! It makes such a huge difference in fidelity; The ASUS Xonar DG is about the best I've found that you can get without delving into spendy audiophile territory, but getting the most out of one takes third-party drivers.)
skullcandy HAS gotten cheaper and better over the years and honestly the sound quality from them, especially full-size headphones, is honestly perfectly adequate esp if yr just using it for day-to-day use just as long as you understand that you're mostly paying for the aesthetics rather than the actual internals, which is totally fine especially if you're looking for "bass-heavy" headphones and not pseudo-audiophile shit that most people don't have the proper equipment to fully utilize anyway
also to note the crushers don't actually have a "bass slider" but actually a motorized driver that responds to low frequencies--not unlike a video game rumble motor so it doesn't actually increase the low frequencies it just makes the headphones vibrate--it is a p cool effect tbh but it's also battery powered and idk if i'd actually use it as more than just a cool novelty
basically get em dude like yeah you can pay more/the same for a pair of "audiophile" headphones but the truth is most "audiophiles" can't actually tell the difference between $10 skullcandies and their precious ath-m50s they bought because some prosumer youtube channel told them to
(for the record tho koss portapros are my favourite headphone but they are also super fragile admittedly)