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What headphones are you using nowdays? Anyone migrate to Bluetooth yet?

I want your opinions please.

Personally, I don't think I would ever move to a bluetooth set. For one, I just don't trust their reliability.
If anything, since getting good monitors I have not gone to cans at all.
Before that, I mixed exclusively on Senni HD 550's,which were in my opinion the best headphones I have ever heard.
You didn't mention if this was for Mixing or Dj'ing but posting it here in production I am assuming it is for the mix. If that is the case, I always have referenced Eric Prydz use of exclusive can Mixing and Mastering. He used the Senn HD 550's

The problem is that the BT procol actually uses data compression and I haven't found a single example where it isn't used in some form. Now add that it's going through "afterthought" DAC for $200 headphones and it just won't sound as good as decent wired cans, let alone monitors.

I've personally never been able to do a final mix on can's alone - I just don't trust them and although i know there's people here that have done it with great results, I feel like I need to hear them on a system with divergence and convergence which you obviously don't get with headphones (unless you're putting a headphone monitor plugin like Isone or reference # or Waves NX etc, but that's a whole other can of worms).

I can't balance a mix on cans no matter how much I reference another track. I need to get basic levels on speakers first, but it's often much easier to fine tune a mix on good cans for people with average rooms.

I'm actually in need of new headphones too. No interest in BT at all. I'm not a DJ, and I don't produce any more, but my pair or Senny HD 280 Pros are literally falling apart after many, many years of solid service.

What do?

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Originally posted by Sushipunk I'm actually in need of new headphones too. No interest in BT at all. I'm not a DJ, and I don't produce any more, but my pair or Senny HD 280 Pros are literally falling apart after many, many years of solid service. What do?

I'd say stay with Senni's...can't go wrong

Found my old Sony walkman earbuds from 2 decades ago. They don't fall off my ear like Apple's abomination, and don't make my ear sweat like 'phones do. I'm paranoid of frying whatever is left of my brain cells with wireless technology & don't want to be vulnerable to MkUltra Voices of God--don't want to become the next puppet terrorist of the elite!

I have the mdr 7520's and they have met my expectations

anyone produce in VR yet?

Lol, VR, noooo, but I've been meaning to dabble in 5.1 mixes. Reverbs & delays would utilize the surround channels but YouTube don't support multichannel audio.

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Originally posted by Mel David Lol, VR, noooo, but I've been meaning to dabble in 5.1 mixes. Reverbs & delays would utilize the surround channels but YouTube don't support multichannel audio.

It's a little more complex than that; It comes down to your sources - just slapping reverb in the surrounds isn't surround. Sources will range from mono (center channel or sub or split to fronts) to stereo (fronts and/or duped to rears) stereo fronts and backs and then often you also add a sub generator.

For instance, when we recorded cellos for a certain superhero with parent issues, we had two mics in front (L/R) and Two above and behind for the Ls and Rs.

So a single instrument with 4 channels, panned L and R, and Ls and Rs.

5.1 are always calibrated so that the Ls and Rs are lower but sometimes wetter with reverb from that fronts.

the .1 is literally just sub, and center has the lion's share of vox and mid bass.

Ordered some KZ ZSN Pros that recently came out cuz 20 dolla why not. I have some kz atr kickin around, wanna see what $20 gets me. I have some TMA-2 s01 headphones that I basically got for free and I find them hard to use for production, they seem decent for mixing sets though, they seem clear in the treble yet innacurate at the same time, bass is poopoo tho. In-ear innovation has grown leaps and bounds yet overear headphones havent changed since god knows how long.



edit* recieved the kz kzsn pros and they're not very good, muddy do not buy.

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