Quality costs, we all know that and finding expencive headphones is easy. What I need is someyhing cheap, or ay least not expencive, and good enought for playing my keayboard (Pa600) and making music.
Can I please have some headphones to pick from, that you have and are good enought without beeing a pro model with the price they have...?
Regards
Jacob
Finding good headphones
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Bald Eagle
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The problem with cheap ones is that they're consistently going to be cheap sounding, or not consistent at all (in which case you might be lucky getting something awesome for some small money - but cannot be sure that the second pair will perform like the first).
An example (in my experience) to this latter is the T-Bone HD-880 (sold by Thomann.de), where I've bought a first pair, but had to return, because it rattled quite badly. The second pair I got became one of the best EUR25 ever spent, so a few months ago I've ordered another three (sort of counting on having problems) and indeed, two out of the two have some problems - and not two of the current 4 headphones sound quite the same. So, for EUR 25 you might or might not get a good headphone. If you buy three or four, you're likely to get at least one that will be great - but then you have already spent EUR 75-100, so you could as well go for a solid studio performer, like the Sony MDR-7510 recommended by Bald Eagle and be done with it.
I'd definitely suggest not to go below the EUR 80-100 limit, look for known good performers (AKG, Beyerdynamics, Sony) and you'll probably not go wrong. Remember that headphones generally need about 100-150 hours of 'running-in' (playing music at a healthy level), before delivering the best performance.
Perhaps your best bet is to visit a shop where they have many models on display and try to see which one you like. Headphones are a very personal thing...
An example (in my experience) to this latter is the T-Bone HD-880 (sold by Thomann.de), where I've bought a first pair, but had to return, because it rattled quite badly. The second pair I got became one of the best EUR25 ever spent, so a few months ago I've ordered another three (sort of counting on having problems) and indeed, two out of the two have some problems - and not two of the current 4 headphones sound quite the same. So, for EUR 25 you might or might not get a good headphone. If you buy three or four, you're likely to get at least one that will be great - but then you have already spent EUR 75-100, so you could as well go for a solid studio performer, like the Sony MDR-7510 recommended by Bald Eagle and be done with it.
I'd definitely suggest not to go below the EUR 80-100 limit, look for known good performers (AKG, Beyerdynamics, Sony) and you'll probably not go wrong. Remember that headphones generally need about 100-150 hours of 'running-in' (playing music at a healthy level), before delivering the best performance.
Perhaps your best bet is to visit a shop where they have many models on display and try to see which one you like. Headphones are a very personal thing...