Im looking at spending some good cash on isolation headphones. I saw some at the Bose store that were nice, but $400 seems a bit much (and with Bose you pay alot for the name, quality is medium at best these days).
Any companies i should look at? Models in particular?
To be honest the best place I have found (by far) for headphone selection and decent pricing is Axe Music. Now, personally my tastes lean more towards high end Sennheisers (http://www.sennheiser.com) as I have yet to purchase a bad pair, but there are other brands which are usually used for studio monitoring (like my Roland RH50s, which are not bad considering I got 2 pair for under $50).
So what are your parameters?
- Price range?
- Portable?
- Cable Length?
- dB range & Freq response?
- Connectivity (jack type, size)
...basically i will be using them in 2 locations, and both are the same activity, gaming. I will either be a) plugging it into my stereo for some xboxing B) plugging it into the computer.
Price range, im looking at in the less then $200 range.
Given that, i hope it answers most of your other more specific questions as im not sure of the answers to them :)
I'll do some digging tonight on "what's hot" in the world of headphones.
Dan's Data seems to review a fair number of headphones, going through some arcane audio tests that Mr. Analog would probably be familiar with. Here's a link to the review page. Look under the Speakers and Headphones section.
http://www.dansdata.com/altindex.html