headphones Recommendations

[Jugal Thacker]

I requested my grandma who is in Australia right now to buy me a nice headphones . Any recommendations under 150 Australian Dollars ? I have been thinking about Razer Kraken V2  

[EsaT]

Don't know what's really available there or with what pricing...

 

Anyway first thing is do you have noisy or quiet environment?

Closed design isolates external noises, but except for lowest rumbling bass it's huge challenge for sound quality.

While also increases ear sweating, because of isolating also heat, unlike better breathing open design headphones.

Though there likely aren't that much open headphones for that pricing.

 

For closed headphone Creative Aurvana Live could be one for that price level, those are made by Fostex instead of some random Chinese trinket factories.

Kingston HyperXes are made by honestly trying Takstar.

QPAD QH-85 would be open headphone from Takstar, not sure if QPADs are just available in Australia.

 

 

Would be really easier if knowing what's available in there...

But gaming fashion brands shouldn't be trusted.

Like all the biggest marketing hype brands, Asus, Corsair, Razer and SteelSeries belonging to worst frequency reponse headphones in this:

https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/6080/17/13-headsets-review-listen-in-higher-quality-testresults---frequency-response

[Jugal Thacker]

5 hours ago, EsaT said:

Don't know what's really available there or with what pricing...

 

Anyway first thing is do you have noisy or quiet environment?

Closed design isolates external noises, but except for lowest rumbling bass it's huge challenge for sound quality.

While also increases ear sweating, because of isolating also heat, unlike better breathing open design headphones.

Though there likely aren't that much open headphones for that pricing.

 

For closed headphone Creative Aurvana Live could be one for that price level, those are made by Fostex instead of some random Chinese trinket factories.

Kingston HyperXes are made by honestly trying Takstar.

QPAD QH-85 would be open headphone from Takstar, not sure if QPADs are just available in Australia.

 

 

Would be really easier if knowing what's available in there...

But gaming fashion brands shouldn't be trusted.

Like all the biggest marketing hype brands, Asus, Corsair, Razer and SteelSeries belonging to worst frequency reponse headphones in this:

https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/6080/17/13-headsets-review-listen-in-higher-quality-testresults---frequency-response

Damn man , thanks for recommending . I'll tell her to get in tech store and I'll see what's available there .

 

[EsaT]

1 hour ago, Jugal Thacker said:

Damn man , thanks for recommending . I'll tell her to get in tech store and I'll see what's available there .

 

Bigger stores likely have also websites which would show what's available.

 

For LAN gaming and such noisy places sound isolation of closed design is needed, but beyond that it's more of drawback.

Both for its sound challenges and higher ear sweating risk, especially if pads aren't velour or other breathing fabric

 

Traditional audio makers don't have much of non-closed headphones in that price, but level there are other makers.

I bought 30€ (<50 AUD) Superlux HD-330 just for experiment and while not up AKG/Beyerdynamic/Sennheiser open headphone level it's darn convincing for the price and would expect pretty much all closed design fashion gaming brand stuff to lose to it by something like 5+ to 1 in actual capabilities.

Well, except maybe QPAD QH-1339 which is custom coloured Beyerdynamic MMX300.