Audio-Technica M40x Professional Studio Headphones for studio recording, creators, DJs, podcasts and everyday listening Black

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They are relatively comfortable, don't really notice you have them on, until you take them off : ) I use the twisty cable, just enough length to go back and forth between the computer and mic without getting tangled or tripped over.

Plastics feel solid and the headband is a smooth and bendable metal-reinforced piece that’s seamlessly attached to the capsules containing the adjustment sliders. Intended for professional applications, the M-Series closed-back, circumaural headphones have, in most cases, rotating ear-cups for ease of 'one-ear' monitoring, particularly flexible, single-sided, cables and may be repaired in the field. The Audio-Technica ATH-M40x is a large headset with ovalesque headphones, each of which houses a 40mm dynamic driver.

I also think that it’s possible the M50X feels stronger in the high end due to the lesser presence in the low end, kind of a perception thing. The bass bloat, artificial-sounding treble, inconsistent comfort levels, and questionable build all combine to make for a painfully average to below-average headphone in my mind.

When using them to record a podcast, the Kraken headphones leaked enough that my mic picked up my co-host’s speech through them, causing an annoying echo that must have been a pain to edit out (thankfully, I didn’t have to do the editing!I proceeded to glue it back together with epoxy, a process I repeated numerous times until eventually, the headphone cup itself came out of the construction where it's supposed to swivel and whatnot.

Your studio experience is enhanced with superior sound isolation and swiveling earcups for convenient one-ear monitoring. I beg to differ on the flatness of the M40x, they have no deal-braking colorations (for my taste) but are a far cry from neutrality (check here for measurements and possible modifications), I attribute the limited soundstage to the angled drivers, they move the stage slightly to the front sacrificing the depth and width that an enveloping soundstage provides. It’s a bass head sound and isn’t at all ashamed of it, but it also isn’t overdone like your mom’s meatloaf.I can't directly compare them to other headphones in terms of use but they work well for me and seem to be a pretty good deal overall. The sound is clear, with maybe some emphasis on the middle side of the sound range ,voice and acoustic guitar sounds very defined and clean. I rose the 2-6 KHz region by 5-6 dB using parametric EQ and found out it helps with imaging and depth, I also reduced the midbass by 3 dB.

In other words, they twist and contort in many of the same ways as the 50x, but don’t actually rotate towards you. Both of the cables target for desktop use with either a computer or a mixing desk, and aren’t that great for carrying around.In this way, consumers give each other guidance and give us the opportunity to continuously improve. Fast forward a few years and the gaming accessory maker has expanded on that concept, but this time around it’s in the form of an 87-key Bluetooth mechanical keyboard. I remember I read somewhere that they're made in 2014 but then I saw that the ath m50x's are made in 2007 and how is it possible? That makes sense on the angled drivers, I did notice a very frontal sound with almost nothing virtual coming in from the side or rear. I don't have proper monitor speakers and usually, it seems, headphones and speakers try to make things sound good.