Hi, for music production, I'm looking for headphone recommendations that are:
- around $70 with a 10 year warranty but preferably lifetime, would spend $100 if better quality and lifetime.
Some companies offer no-questions-asked warranty and will repair even if you step on them or something which is nice but I'm mostly concerned about problems from normal use. I don't blast them though.
- Oval cans (by cans I mean the actual headphone, circle ones underlap my ears sometimes and I don't even have huge ears)
- Padded top of course. No leather/animal products.
- detachable cord and can use regular 1/8 cable I can get off ebay for like $2, not some specialty jack $50 replacement cable.
- No mic or added bells and whistles.
- No default bass boost. I can EQ bass myself if I want.
- Closed back and noise isolating. (I want no sound to exit the headphone. For noise canceling vs isolating, either should be fine but I don't need to spend more for canceling).
I searched for hours. I wasted a lot of time at first looking for ones with 10 foot cords which I need and then learned they make them with detachable cords a lot now which also eliminates a lot of problems with possibly tugging the cord while it's stuck on something but that can still F up the jack port and make it finicky.
All I found so far with lifetime warranty is most KOSS and Skullcandy but I don't think they have exactly what I'm looking for. 10 year warranty should be fine but anything shorter and I would probably just make do with KOSS or skull candy. I'm also tempted to just get a $25 pair of Monoprice 8323 because they get such good reviews and be done with the search.
I don't want to support sennheizer anymore. I had a $60 pair of them I liked from 2001 that lasted me maybe 8 years (with soldering repairs) but the $40 HD428 pair I have of them now the cord is the thinnest cord I have ever seen even vs dollar store earbuds. It hasn't broke in maybe a year or more but I have to be extra careful with them plus I need a 10 foot cord and I have the 6 foot cord adaptered to an extension which is finicky and doesn't produce sound unless it's a very particular way hence I am looking for new ones. Thanks
- around $70 with a 10 year warranty but preferably lifetime, would spend $100 if better quality and lifetime.
Some companies offer no-questions-asked warranty and will repair even if you step on them or something which is nice but I'm mostly concerned about problems from normal use. I don't blast them though.
- Oval cans (by cans I mean the actual headphone, circle ones underlap my ears sometimes and I don't even have huge ears)
- Padded top of course. No leather/animal products.
- detachable cord and can use regular 1/8 cable I can get off ebay for like $2, not some specialty jack $50 replacement cable.
- No mic or added bells and whistles.
- No default bass boost. I can EQ bass myself if I want.
- Closed back and noise isolating. (I want no sound to exit the headphone. For noise canceling vs isolating, either should be fine but I don't need to spend more for canceling).
I searched for hours. I wasted a lot of time at first looking for ones with 10 foot cords which I need and then learned they make them with detachable cords a lot now which also eliminates a lot of problems with possibly tugging the cord while it's stuck on something but that can still F up the jack port and make it finicky.
All I found so far with lifetime warranty is most KOSS and Skullcandy but I don't think they have exactly what I'm looking for. 10 year warranty should be fine but anything shorter and I would probably just make do with KOSS or skull candy. I'm also tempted to just get a $25 pair of Monoprice 8323 because they get such good reviews and be done with the search.
I don't want to support sennheizer anymore. I had a $60 pair of them I liked from 2001 that lasted me maybe 8 years (with soldering repairs) but the $40 HD428 pair I have of them now the cord is the thinnest cord I have ever seen even vs dollar store earbuds. It hasn't broke in maybe a year or more but I have to be extra careful with them plus I need a 10 foot cord and I have the 6 foot cord adaptered to an extension which is finicky and doesn't produce sound unless it's a very particular way hence I am looking for new ones. Thanks
