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Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by artursapek »

wickedchicken wrote: post #13
saryant wrote: post #2

Nothing beats the Sennheiser HD-280 as an awesome pair of hacker headphones. For ~$80 you get terrific sounds, great noise reduction and amazing comfort. I've tried previous iterations of the Bose QC line but I was disappointed by a) the battery requirement, b) the sound quality (poor and muddled by active noise cancellation) and c) the build quality---my pair died after a year and those things never did anything but…

> you get terrific sounds, great noise reduction and amazing comfort. I've been using 280s at work for a few weeks now and I'm not really digging them. At home I have Shure SRH-440s, but replaced the stock pads with pads from the 840s (about $20 off amazon). They're monitor headphones so the response is meant to be flatter; the net result is notably quieter bass that sounds more "present" than pounding your ears. At…

I have this exact pair with those pads. Really great but they get warm after a long while as all over-the-ears models do. Great sound though and very portable.

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by abruzzi »

Their survey doesn't let me select Yamaha as a brand. For years I've mixed with Yamaha RH5Ma headphones, so I've grown a soft spot for them. Most consider them a bit harsh like NS10s, but I find most professional recordings to be to warm and need harshing up.

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by zbuc »

I would punch a coworker that was using Grado SR-80s or Sennheiser 555s or anything open at work, as they leak so much sound and not everybody sitting near you wants to hear your music. Keep those at home. I'm surprised the SR-80s scored so well!

I love the Beyerdynamic DT-770 personally. Closed ear, comfy, great sound.

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by zbuc »

j-kidd wrote: post #130

> Surprisingly, almost no one wears their headphones all the time while coding. The author should try reading Peopleware. Here's an excerpt from Chapter "Bring Back the Door": "In response to worker's gripes about noise, you can either treat the symptom or treat the cause. Treating the cause mean choosing isolation in the form of noise barriers -- walls and doors -- and these cost money. Treating the symptom is much…

Wait, people write books with paragraphs like that, and then other people buy them, and read them, and think it makes sense?

"Your workers will have to find their own solutions(necessitating creativity) therefore they will be less creative"... hrm

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by zbuc »

DanBC wrote: post #129
fourk wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't actually buy HD 595s. The audio driver is exactly the same as the one contained within the HD 555s, the only difference besides the price tag and model label is that they just stick an (easily removable) sound dampener inside the 555s. Buy some HD 555s and mod them, you'll save yourself some money on a pair of fantastic cans. More details on the modification process can be found here: http://mikebeaucham…

Do they test the drivers and put the better ones in the more expensive headphones? Or do they just make two different headphones using the exact same driver?

As far as I can tell, it's the same driver. I bought a replacement driver for my 555s and the packaging it came in said HD-555/595 driver.

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by khyryk »

Plantronics GameCom 377 headphones are inexpensive and are comfortable for my big head. I'll never, ever buy anything other than open-ear headphones again.

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by dromidas »

Sennheiser's are too open air for the workplace imo, I keep those for home. At work I prefer high quality earbuds such as SE530's (Shure) since they're passive noise isolation which blocks out literally every sound there is in the office. I hate active noise canceling so noise isolation is the best!

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by vukk »

jamwt wrote: post #96

I've listened to Grados, various Sennheiser, etc.. and they're all fine. Good even. But there's just one thing I don't get about the "headphone scene". I've done various things as a musician over the last 15 years, and the cans you see EVERYWHERE are the Sony MDR-7506. Period. If it is good enough to mix and master, if it is good enough to monitor professional vocalists in the studio, it is good enough for you! These…

Also, if you get or already have MDR-7506, I strongly recommend getting the velour pads! They are made by beyerdynamic and are really for DT-250 but fit fine to MDR-7506.

Since I didn't find a product number to give you, here's an amazon link http://www.amazon.com/Beyerdynamic-Velour-Earcushions-MDR750... that lists them currently unavailable though, but just to give you easier time finding them from some other retailer.

bayerdynamic DT-770 is another popular choice in pro-use (just anecdotal evidence). My experience is that they are slightly more bass-heavy than Sony MDR-7506, but the sound is very equal otherwise. Also their round shape did not fit my head as well and caused pain on long sessions. Overall I see that some might prefer them over MDR-7506.

Re: Headphones for Hackers

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Post by jvandonsel »

Coincidentally, I just went out today and bought a pair of Bose QC 15's at lunchtime after someone from our customer service department was moved into the next cubicle. You can imagine the constant chatting.

These phones worked surprisingly well for blocking human voices, which is something that they weren't designed for and are not known for.

Add a little low-level music and I was in my own little world.

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