$100 Budget Headphones For a Friend

[Darkman]

My friend doesn't know anything about headphones... He wants Kraken 7.1s, or Tiamats 7.1... Everyone in this Skype call are Razer lovers and tried telling me their build quality is FANTASTIC and I'd like to find something he'd like. He hates the look of AD500Xs, and ATH-M40Xs.... I'd send his Spotify Starred list, but it may or may not have his full name...

 

So here is some screenshots of it instead.

I WANT TO GET HIM TO GET A GOOD PAIR OF HEADPHONES TO PROVE TO HIM 7.1 IS FUCKING POINTLESS AND NOT USING A EQ TO GET SOMEWHAT WHAT YOU WANT IS AWESOME

 

/rant

Getting sick of Razer fanboys all day...

[ZacDaMan72]

ATH-M40X?

[Faceman]

Superlux HD668Bs, and buy some Velour Earpads to go with them.  Will cost around $50, and give you $150 headphone quality.  Its not flashy, the sound isn't altered at all, it is pure sounding.  Music is fantastic, gaming is good too.  The music though, you hear it the way the artist intended you to hear it.  It is not altered in any way in which some headphones do.

 

Read some reviews, and you will quickly see people gushing about this headphone as the budget king.

 

Here is a really accurate representation of how these sound:

 

"What you play through them is what comes out. A bad recording will sound bad, a good one great. They are really transparent, simply "passing on" the sound without leaving a hint of presence of their own. And honestly, I like this. I want to hear my music the way it was recorded, intended to be heard. I don't want headphones to change my music. Sure, colored headphones may make it sound more "fun", but that's not the way the artist heard or made the track. Well, to each his own I guess. To continue: they reveal a lot of detail. A lot. Background hiss, noise, breathing, coughs from artists and stuff I have never heard before in my music. I have to play through everything again, to rediscover all those tiny details I missed out until now. The frequency response doesn't have many spikes, and it corresponds with what you can see on the manufacturer's website.

Soundstage, well, it's generally good. Certainly better than the closed-back headphones I own. These are only semi-open however. Sound isolation is still OK, I can hear myself typing and my noisy PC case, but when music plays it's hardly audible. To sum it up for the Superlux HD668B: Add nothing, reveal everything."

[Darkman]

Superlux HD668Bs, and buy some Velour Earpads to go with them.  Will cost around $50, and give you $150 headphone quality.  Its not flashy, the sound isn't altered at all, it is pure sounding.  Music is fantastic, gaming is good too.  The music though, you hear it the way the artist intended you to hear it.  It is not altered in any way in which some headphones do.

 

Read some reviews, and you will quickly see people gushing about this headphone as the budget king.

 

Here is a really accurate representation of how these sound:

 

"What you play through them is what comes out. A bad recording will sound bad, a good one great. They are really transparent, simply "passing on" the sound without leaving a hint of presence of their own. And honestly, I like this. I want to hear my music the way it was recorded, intended to be heard. I don't want headphones to change my music. Sure, colored headphones may make it sound more "fun", but that's not the way the artist heard or made the track. Well, to each his own I guess. To continue: they reveal a lot of detail. A lot. Background hiss, noise, breathing, coughs from artists and stuff I have never heard before in my music. I have to play through everything again, to rediscover all those tiny details I missed out until now. The frequency response doesn't have many spikes, and it corresponds with what you can see on the manufacturer's website.

Soundstage, well, it's generally good. Certainly better than the closed-back headphones I own. These are only semi-open however. Sound isolation is still OK, I can hear myself typing and my noisy PC case, but when music plays it's hardly audible. To sum it up for the Superlux HD668B: Add nothing, reveal everything."

Eh... He's kind of a bass head...

[ShearMe]

Eh... He's kind of a bass head...

 

Then let him wallow in the Razer shit, and when he grows up he can discover true audiofeelz bliss.