Comfort

To heavy

This is a quite good headphone for $100. It has detail mid and high. It's bass isn't loud, but my friend's $1000 headphone has no loud bass too. So I think it's a great deal to buy this headphone.

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Grado Sr-80

Excellent range for digital systems, very comfortable, professional quality weight and construction

I could not determine any significant weaknesses

As I have seen in some of the other reviews, the quality of the sound in these babies is ENTIRELY dependent on the equipment being used. If you try to use these on a standard component stereo system, you may be disappointed. If you use them on the equipment intended for them (a completely digital sound reproduction system) you should be very pleased with your purchase. I use them on a PC equiped with a SoundBlaster Live sound card. All of my audio equipment is connected through this card. The quality of the output from new, high-end PC sound cards running with fast processors has been rated higher than most consumer digital stereo systems available today. As such, I think I get a very good benchmark for sound reproduction. Some people have reported these headphones as sounding "boomy" in the base regions but I beleive this is a result of filtering in the digital decoder and not the headphones. These phones have a lot of depth which may lead to the "boomy" description but this is usually just muddy or overdriven base reproduction from your equipment. These phones are a great value.

An extremely sturdy pair of headphones! The cord is suitably thick and durable (unlike the Sennheiser spaghetti-cords). Reproduces acoustic sounds (e.g. a concert hall), wonderfully (even better than my Sennheiser HD25 SP's! Cost twice as much!). Ear busting bass. Comfy padding.

Though the wide frequency range is a good point, some of the spectrum is not handled so well, most noticeably mid range frequencies. If you're a DJ like me, and sweat alot, the padding inside the cups gets damp and stinky, not a good thing. Also, while generally cushy and comfortable on the ears, the pure loudness and power of the boofy bass causes some chronic ear fatigue after a few hours.

All in all, a good pair of headphones for the price. Useful for casual listening and monitoring, but no good for long periods of time (e.g. basic mastering).
A solid pair of 'phones that will last many, many years.

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None come to mind...not for this price.

sound, sound, sound, sound, and comfort, and cost, and build quality, ect. ect.

nope

These are so much bett than the Beyer headphones, and the Koss models, regardless of price. They are very precise and ultra clear, with all the information your brain needs to have the original recording right in your ear.....Without anything extra. I can't live with open designs, especially in my house, with the kids and TV and all the the domestic noise. Thes are very fine.

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any other closed type

wonderful sound and good price

none, for the money

I simply love these 'phones, and if you try them, I think you would too. Mine have held up fine after years of use, and almost every day! I ordered replacement pads for them, but was able to fix the original ones with a little super glue, and they are still going strong. Very fine sound on my portable CD player, and plenty of it too. These are my favorites, from what I've heard of closed headphones.

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other closed types

very comfortable, well built, excellent sonics, great efficiency, price, good isolation, folding design, terrific cord design,(with gold connectors)

ever so slightly reticent in the upper mids

I just posted a review of my Sony V-6's, and thought I would say about the same things here since I ended up talking about these cans more than the V-6's. These are an upgrade from the V-6's. They sound more detailed, and have a flatter frequency responce, including improved bass definition and extension, and less edgy lower treble/upper mids that mars the sound of the V-6's a little. They have all the strengths I mentioned above, and the slight weakness in the mids, which makes them a wonderful, non-fatiguing, slightly warm, durable, comfortable, dynamic (they play very loud and stay very clean, and do so with fewer electrons than any other headphones that I want to listen to), pair of phones that really don't need an special separate headphone amp, if you have a decent headphone jack on your gear. They isolate very well, and are priced well below the competition. Since they do so much so well, they would have to be called 5 star cans.

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Sony V-6's, Beyer, Sennheiser, AKG, Grado

Circumaural pads, durable construction

Closed design causes attenuation of upper mids, somewhat bulky and heavy

When I bought this set in March, I thought they were excellent. But now, I find them nothing special, for the $100 price tag. The upper mids and lower treble are missing, there is some mid-bass emphasis (but no more than an average set of good-quality headphones). Also, they are a bit bulky and heavy; they induce sweating and may slip out of position when you turn your head. These phones are built to last--but that isn’t enough of an advantage to recommend them. Too bad Sony’s recent Studio Monitors aren’t as accurate as my 10-year-old MDR-V6 phones. After all that, I rate this model higher than my MDR-V300 phones (which have a very boomy bass) but significantly lower than my Sony MDR-V6 and my Sennheiser HD495 Silver headphones (both of which earn the same "excellent" overall score but have different sets of strengths and weaknesses).

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Sony MDR-V300, Sony MDR-V6, Sennheiser HD495 Silver

Good, clean sound, comfortable to wear. Nice bass.

Cord is not long enough, kindof heavy.

I use these for listening to TV and movies, with the V300s for music. I like them so far, except for having to use a cord extender each darn time.

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Sony

Everything

none

I own some expensive music recording equipment and expensive remix equipment, but I was always cheap on somethings like headphones. I don't own my own home so, I have to use headphones a lot at night. You know why, the neighbors. In the summer of 1993, I broke down and brought the Sony MDR-V600. It's now year 2000 and my fat head has wore part of the leather padding down to the point, you can see the yellow cushion on the inside of the padding very good. I paid a hundred dollar for them and I tell you, I enjoy every penny spent. The head phones still sound as good as they did when I first brought them. No lie. Other than the padding coming apart, which is my hard wear and tear. The headphones sound good. It handles great with the demanding bass, from house, hiphop, r&b and jazz and got the highs and midrange response to want hear your favorite tracks over and over again. I write and remix house and hip hop music with these headphones and it never let me down with raw instrument sound before I tweak it to record. There really good headphones.

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OPTIMUS PRO-90

Great headphones for $100!

Muddy Bass, Sony

Some of the reviews for these cans just aren't fair. I admit the bass is far from tight, and that they have the usual Sony lack of performance, but for $100, what can you expect?
I can't seem to understand the whole deal about weak highs and mids mentioned in many of the below reviews. As with all Sony speakers, you have to pump a lot of power into these to make them sound good. Not a problem for me, seeing that I like my music loud. When the volume on these is up, the highs and mids are the most reasonable I can find at this price range (try the opening sequence of the Matrix DVD, plenty of highs there!) As long as you EQ the bass down about 4dB, the phones work great.
These headphones will pick up static very easily, so don't plan on hooking them up to a cheap TV set or anything like that. They won't make it sound better, they'll just make it worse.


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Great for $100 :-)
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Hey, It's Sony. :-(