Headphones

Over years of years, since childhood, it matters what music is playing and what speakers and equipment make the music. Always is the issue.

Ha ha! Have had many systems/headphones. Such to say, for monitoring, lately going with audo-technica. Affordible and do its job.

Must say that of all the times I use headphones, one is the winner of chicken dinner with the hands down - BOSE Triport Model TP-1A over ear cup headphones. NO PAIN, even all day use! Sound, good but not best. But sound, after long use, bleh! Comforft please. And bose do delevier in that comfort, so so nice. Have had mine long to wear 2 ear padding out, just replacing each time for not much.

Bigger yet problem is bose not haveing a the mic. Oh. I found one mic that work so good, best of all headhpone mics yet I have tried. It is Zalman Zm-Mic1. A sort of clipon mic, but not really. I bend piece of stiff wire into boom and use with bose headphone. Zalman mic just like any other now, but better quality.

Each has own tasting. But one word of truth, maybe whitedragoon can a test? Comfort? Maybe in past I'm not buying bose, to much money and sound not that good for money. But as a believer now, i chosen comfort... ahhh

 

A month ago I finally grabbed a set of ATH-M50s on sale for $85. They sound much better than the ATH-M40fs but they are too big for my head and therefore aren't comfortable for me .

Does that mic pick up a lot of ambient noise? I need a mic that only pics up my voice.

 

It depends on how sensitive you set it in Windows and whatever applications you're using. It really picks everything up if you set the gain high enough. I was group voice chatting some people and my roommate came in to tell me something. He was whispering about 4 or 5 feet away from the mic and everyone had heard him. I have the acoustic echo cancellation and all that jazz enabled in my drivers so I can listen to music and still use the mic without the music being picked up, provided the speaker volume is within reason. I'd imagine that if you have the mic clipped to your headphones and you turn down the gain, it would work great.

 

Great thanks! I have a headset for my ps3 but I don't want to unplug it for my use with my computer so I need a mic for gaming.

 

ATH that I used seem the meant monitoring. As good, its why I buy them for that purpose! And flat responses on curve of 20-20k, very good for budgets. Not one complaining on them as monitors.

But not one that I use would I say is good for te hours of maybe the gaming or movies? Nope. Not liken the bose are. Maybe that bose are perfect size to cup ear, but also I think bose have just right spring steel. The pinch of bose not like others, but just so that makes seal. Over last maybe 7 years or so that I own them, I only know one thing - nothing in the headphones of my experience are like them for confort.

Regarding that zalman mic. It omni, and can pickup that noise of surroundsing. And well too! But that most use it as lapel, so meant to be somewhat 1/2 meter away and get pickup? I make small boom from wire, like coat hanger grade wire. stiff but can work to form boom. Zalman mic is placed on boom, so pointing at my mouth like that regualr old headset would do - like so many you see. Result - very good. Not sounding like cheep mic, so others say so too, they notice. Then set some settings on, the noise reduction and things, and get it working well with teamspeak and that. For the recordings, not a shure sm. Its a comms mic, one of them better ones I have used.

HTH

 

Did you break it or it's broken by itself?

BTW, apparently the difference of HD 202 and HD 202 II is only on the naming and packaging. In essence they're the same thing.

 

Reminds me of the trivial difference between the 555/8's and 595's. If anyone has 555's or 558's, do that mod!

 

Hmmm interesting. I have the HD555's