Subject: Re: headphones (again!) From: vciocca <vciocca(at)HKUSUA.HKU.HK> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:12:23 +0800Other good sites to check for headphones are: www.head-fi.org; www.headphone.com. The latter one is a commercial site but they are quite candid about which headphones they like and which they don't. They also provide frequency response measurements and distortion spectra for most of the headphones on their catalog. Given these headphones will be used for experim ents, I suppose closed headphones would be preferable to open ones. Unfortunately, it is easier to get good sounding open headphones for the same price, especially if the price is relatively low. Tough to get low-distortion headphones for US$40! IMO, your best bet would be either Sennheiser (e.g., HD202, PX100) or Koss (portapro) for low-cost, decent quality headphones. Valter >===== Original Message From blumschein(at)E-Technik.Uni-Magdeburg.DE ===== >I doubt that earphones from Grado are really better than from Sennheiser. >Also, it might be difficult to correctly measure headphones outside an >appropliate acoustic dummy, mimicking the impedance of ear channel. >I recommend www.headwize.com for headphone issues. > >Eckard Blumschein > > >Andrew Brouse <brouse(at)MUSIC.MCGILL.CA> wrote: > >> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Stuart Rosen wrote: >> >> > We need to buy headphones for use in student lab experiments, so perhaps >> > 30 in all. We want something decent but don't want to spend more than, >> > say 40 GBP (equivalent buying power = $40!). We have measured some >> > Beyers and Sennhesiers in this price range but they seemed to have an >> > awful lot of distortion. Any recommendations, anyone? >> >> Many people have been very satisfied with Grado headphones such as the >> SR-60. >> >> http://www.gradolabs.com/ >> >> I'm not sure what they cost in the UK but they are very reasonably >> priced in North America. >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> Andrew Brouse >> Music Technology >> McGill University >> Montreal, Quebec, Canada >>