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Please can you help me decide on my headphones. Thanks for your help:

I will be using them for gaming which includes casual/competitive cs go(playing with mates)

Playing Gta, tf2, far cry...

Also be listening to YouTube a lot. With occasional films and music!

My choices so far are between; m50x, hd 558 and pt 770. Feel free to leave options with that kinda price range in mind.

That will not be leaving my PC so open back is no problem

If you are going to use the headphones only in your house i suggest to you the ath-ad700x from audio technica and this is why.

In general terms, closed-back headphones are designed to isolate you from the outside world. It’s just you and your music. The downside is the music is a lot more “in your head” sounding. It’s less like a “band in a concert hall” and more “a band in your head.” Perhaps not that extreme, but you get the idea. Again, this is generally speaking. There can be exceptions. The downside to open-back is probably obvious: everyone can hear what you’re listening to, and any ambient sound gets right in and mixes with your music.

The benefit, though, is some of that sound that’s headed out towards the world also gets mixed in with your music. The result is the headphone sounds significantly larger than closed-back headphones. More “open” sounding. Less like music beamed into your head, and more like music in a room. In other words, potentially more realistic.

They cost around 200 bucks ;)

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Please can you help me decide on my headphones. Thanks for your help:

I will be using them for gaming which includes casual/competitive cs go(playing with mates)

Playing Gta, tf2, far cry...

Also be listening to YouTube a lot. With occasional films and music!

My choices so far are between; m50x, hd 558 and pt 770. Feel free to leave options with that kinda price range in mind.

That will not be leaving my PC so open back is no problem

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Please can you help me decide on my headphones. Thanks for your help:

I will be using them for gaming which includes casual/competitive cs go(playing with mates)

Playing Gta, tf2, far cry...

Also be listening to YouTube a lot. With occasional films and music!

My choices so far are between; m50x, hd 558 and pt 770. Feel free to leave options with that kinda price range in mind.

That will not be leaving my PC so open back is no problem

If you are going to use the headphones only in your house i suggest to you the ath-ad700x from audio technica and this is why.

In general terms, closed-back headphones are designed to isolate you from the outside world. It’s just you and your music. The downside is the music is a lot more “in your head” sounding. It’s less like a “band in a concert hall” and more “a band in your head.” Perhaps not that extreme, but you get the idea. Again, this is generally speaking. There can be exceptions. The downside to open-back is probably obvious: everyone can hear what you’re listening to, and any ambient sound gets right in and mixes with your music.

The benefit, though, is some of that sound that’s headed out towards the world also gets mixed in with your music. The result is the headphone sounds significantly larger than closed-back headphones. More “open” sounding. Less like music beamed into your head, and more like music in a room. In other words, potentially more realistic.

They cost around 200 bucks ;)

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