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XxGaaragothxX
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Jul 12, 2017
@tumaru thank you, last night i kinda decided to get the HD6xx but since it will arrive later this year i am thinking of getting something else more closed-back too, i checked couple of reviews for Meze99 neo some say it's bass is kinda choky and little bit tuned up , i don't want to bother you but is there something close/better that costs less :x or is it the best option in the market now? Thanks.
tumaru
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Jul 13, 2017
XxGaaragothxXThe meze99 isn't the best thing on the market and in fact that is the wrong way of looking at it. I wanted to get a pair of headphones but didn't know which ones to get so I looked up headphone store which I suggest you do and went to an awesome place that just sells headphones. I discovered two things that day about headphones in general, one was that it wasn't about which one was the best but instead which flavour do you want and two that it was universal that the non bluetooth headphone version of the same model (non and bluetooth) was always better. Sometimes it was quite noticeable and other times it was just noticeable but every time the non bluetooth headphones were better of the same model. The meze headphones are just the latest ones that made me go wow.
I have two pieces of advice for you. Find a headphone store near you and go and listen to every single pair of headphones with the same song such that you can start to get a map of the headphones and what you like. You can't read reviews and judge from other peoples opinions what you will think of the headphones. The second is look around value villages and salvation armies and other such stores around you. The salvation army that is right beside me luckily enough consistently has headphones in them. If they look like cheap eye candy don't bother but if they look weird or high end try them yourself and see if they are good. I have a pair that have flat driver units that have excellent sound stage meaning it sounds like I'm there. I picked up some crappy looking sennheisers (px 100) that just needed some new pads that are one of my favorites right now that have amazing sound, as I put it it has a lot of air in the sound. If you do this make sure they work before you buy them. I got a couple that didn't work and fixed a few of them as they were just a disconnected wire in the driver unit most of the time but the last one I fixed was costly to fix then turned out to be tired drivers that didn't quite work so now they're trash. Another benefit of trying before you buy is finding things that don't work like how the buttons on the sennheiser 630vb don't work.
What headphones would I suggest... my friend would suggest the sennheiser hd25-1 ii as the best all around headphone. Maybe the akg k553 or the audio technica ath-m40x (https://www.reddit.com/r/Zeos/comments/66wz27/guide_headphones_general_usemusic/). These two will be very different. Maybe try to decide between these three. All of them will be excellent. akg k553 is constantly on massdrop. I would suggest either the akg or sennheiser based on your budget and availability.
XxGaaragothxX
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Jul 13, 2017
tumaruThanks for advice but i wish if it's possible to find a headphone store where i live the only probability for me finding one is to travel to Dubai (which is 2000 Kilometers away) unfortunately for me it's kinda a gamble that's why i spend mostly 3/4 hours daily searching for a headphones and reading reviews, i dunno what are value villages or salvation army are but i am sure where i live we don't have those.
Anyway i will keep checking and camapring hopefully i can decide before the drop ends. Thanks all ^^
tumaru
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Jul 14, 2017
XxGaaragothxXwhat is the sound profile your looking for? for balanced and transparent akg, for fun which is what the meze99 are go with audio technica and for the sennheiser veil go with sennheiser. I keep on coming back to the same conclusion that sennheiser is the best choice. The hd25-1 ii is used by most djs again after they went off to other brands for a while. In a world of a million flavors with no best but defiantly better and worse flavors I would say as a whole sennheiser is the best big headphone company. They have the most number one slots including best headphones ever (tens of thousands of dollar for the orpheus). There will be people on the internet who think the sennheiser veil is crap (their sound signature) but yet I think their headphones are amazing. Don't worry about it too much, beyond a certain point there is diminishing gains. Your going to be happy with any choice you make unless you fret about the road you didn't take in which case none of them will make you happy.
value village and the salvation army are both stores that get donated goods then the donated goods and takes that money and puts it into charity. the salvation army is a sect of christianity so all the profit goes to charity and value village is a business so a small amount goes to charity based on the weight of the donations.
I'm curious what is 2000 km from dubai? I can only come to the conclusion that your in yemen which in that case can't you go to ethiopia or djibouti as a potential closer place? Just curious on your situation.
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