Bump.
Penguin helped me a bit and wanted the info to go out to everybody:
Re: Help
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Originally Posted by Ammy
Hey,
Shopping for little brother for Christmas, I want to get him a pair of over the ears since he is always borrowing mine. Less than $100, used at home and for rap/radio garbage and other bass-y genres. Any immediate suggestions that come to mind? You've helped me out in the past, so any advice you have is appreciated.
first and foremost - how old is he? be careful here, wrong item at a young age can potentially screw his hearing pretty hard... ill explain more later. that being said, when u say over ears, im guessing you mean headphones that will cover his ears up. also, i will assume he is listening out of an ipod or something portable. anyways, in no particular order:
1. denon 510r - not super beefy so if he might trash them dont get these, quick way to burn $100. try to get these from a bigger retailer who can move a lot of inventory b/c they r somewhat new and the first batch had some problems.
2. sennheiser 448 or 428, depenRAB on how much you want to spend. and these will probably sound a tiny bit better out of a laptop or something, but will "cut it" in an ipod, just won't sound as good. imo, i have never used a good senn product that really matched with really bassy music though, like their products can work with a lot of bass, but its always missing that "something", but they are almost always good w/ the design, quality, etc and typically have well thought out products so these may be good for you if you want to let your brother just have your headphones.
3. ultrasone hfi 450 or 580 (will cost more than $100 unless you find a deal). these are more out of curiosity, i dont have that much experience with ultrasones outside of some of their flagship stuff but im curious about how they are - if you end up getting these please leave as much info on these as you can b/c im curious.
there are a lot more out there, many w/o best caveats that im mentioning, but i was tired when i opened this and want to sleep soon, if you need more info, lmk.
lastly, if you dont mind, please post this in the headphones thread (or i can) so the info is out there for everyone. and i remeraber you were asking about RE-0s. maybe post how you feel about them b/c several ppl are probably skeptical if some best chinese company can really make half decent earphones worth that much.
My experience with RE-0s and RE-ZEROs: I won't buy again. Way too fragile for me, I broke 2 pairs of RE-0s and a final pair of RE-ZEROs before I gave up getting them replaced. Two of the incidents occurred just by removing the cord from the iPod jack, separating/breaking it (both of the RE-0s). The RE-ZEROs simply broke in one earphone, although that might have been unnoticed abuse on my part. On the bright side, their customer service was very good and replaced them free of charge each time within the warranty.
