Recommendations for over-ear Headphones

[jacobjames7]

Hi all,

I am looking to buy some new over-ear headphones with a budget of around £100, a bit over would not matter. I currently own some Urbanears Zinken headphones but do not feel like they offer enough quality in their sound and are pretty uncomfortabel for long periods of listening. I

listen to all forms of music but mainly across the spectrum of drum and bass. I also DJ drum and bass so some headphones that can be used for DJing would be helpful too. To sum up i am looking for comfortable, noise cancelling headphones with the focus on quality rather than style.

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[JoelSim]

Why noise-cancelling? Over ear block out the 99% of noise anyway in most cases.

If you want them to DJ as well then you should look at AIAIAI TMA-1 and Reloop RHP-20, both sound great as well as being well built, on proper kit or on a phone.

 

[quadpatch]

Why noise-cancelling? Over ear block out the 99% of noise anyway in most cases.

If you want them to DJ as well then you should look at AIAIAI TMA-1 and Reloop RHP-20, both sound great as well as being well built, on proper kit or on a phone.

I think he means noise isolating and I think you mean closed back, since there are probably more open back over-ear headphones than closed. Anyway, I commend your suggestions of the TMA-1 for DJ'ing, but isn't that on-ear rather than over-ear. Any idea how comfortable they are? I would suggest the Beyerdynamic DT770, but I think that might be a tad too much over budget.

 

[JoelSim]

Yes they are very comfortable in standard guise, they need to be for DJs using them for hours at a time. The Young Guru edition is a full over-ear, but more expensive but there is the new TMA-1x and the Beatport which are cheaper.

 

[Marsbardark]

Klipsch Mode m40 are around 100 pounds at Amazon. Very good headphones with noise cancelling although I prefer them with it off.

 

[PEAYEL]

Please try to listen to the Grado 80i, AKG K550 and the Goldring NS100. All different but will give you an excellent basis to start from. The Grado's are about £100 on their site, AKG's about £125 and the Goldring's can be had for as little as £70 if you shop around and they have noise cancelling.