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May. 30th, 2005 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahI've pretty much tortured my Koss Portapro headphones to death, so I decided it was time to go out and get something suitable for use with a Walkman (and HDD unit), that is something less than $150 and has decent sound. So I found the Sennheiser PX 200s for $100. Bloody excellent buy.
There's a great case that comes with them, which, if I ever put the headphones back into it, should protect them even from ME. There is excellent sound reproduction and separation. It isn't in the slightest "crystalline" though. The bass is excellent too, for the size of phones. The sound in general isn't as warm as the Portapros, but I'm not missing that. There is some pretty effective sound-baffling too (again, for the size and cost), so I probably will not be wearing them while cycling in traffic.
The real test, though, was listening to Massive Attack's Angel (from the Mezzanine album). After achieving that blissed-out, so-totally-immersed-I-couldn't-focus-my-eyes feeling, I decided that they were pretty damn good. The mid-range isn't as prominent as I'm used to, but that might be to do with the fact that everything else is presented so clearly. However, if I had a device with an equaliser, I would probably be boosting that and the upper-low range. Possibly personal preference.
There's a great case that comes with them, which, if I ever put the headphones back into it, should protect them even from ME. There is excellent sound reproduction and separation. It isn't in the slightest "crystalline" though. The bass is excellent too, for the size of phones. The sound in general isn't as warm as the Portapros, but I'm not missing that. There is some pretty effective sound-baffling too (again, for the size and cost), so I probably will not be wearing them while cycling in traffic.
The real test, though, was listening to Massive Attack's Angel (from the Mezzanine album). After achieving that blissed-out, so-totally-immersed-I-couldn't-focus-my-eyes feeling, I decided that they were pretty damn good. The mid-range isn't as prominent as I'm used to, but that might be to do with the fact that everything else is presented so clearly. However, if I had a device with an equaliser, I would probably be boosting that and the upper-low range. Possibly personal preference.