Any suggestions on some good headphones to make music with?

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Jesse-velazquez
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Any suggestions on some good headphones to make music with?

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Aside from the Dre Beats headphones. I had a few pairs of those, and the hardware imo is garbage. I just need a durable pair that are that sound really good.

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Dre Beats are kind of garbage and horribly over rated (yes I own a pair)... good for casual listening and traveling etc, but i would never work on music or mix with them

I live and die by my Beyerdynamic DT 770 PROs though

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Don't do any monitoring/mixing with Dre Beats. Stay far away. They have an EQ curve already wired in the firmware.

I like my Audio Technica ATH-M50x pair. They're cheap(ish) with a pretty flat response as far as I can tell, if anything if you make it sound dope in them, it'll translate fairly well. They're actually the pair Dre is using right here:

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so that tells you how much Dre's into using his own headies. Good luck.

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Thanks guys. Yeah I'm not a big fan of the beats. I'm going to look in to the Audio Techinca one. They put out good equipment.

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CHANCE RANDOM wrote:Don't do any monitoring/mixing with Dre Beats. Stay far away. They have an EQ curve already wired in the firmware.

I like my Audio Technica ATH-M50x pair. They're cheap(ish) with a pretty flat response as far as I can tell, if anything if you make it sound dope in them, it'll translate fairly well. They're actually the pair Dre is using right here:

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so that tells you how much Dre's into using his own headies. Good luck.
i use the same ones when i'm working late at night/early in am.
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Niice. I've gone through many cans, Sony, Pioneer, AKG, but haven't found the the right thing personally.

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you want them to be flat and true and thats what they are. They're my favorite i've had as far as mixing goes. so yea.
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Thanks for your help. I definitely gonna pick up a pair.

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