I don't mean to start a war, but what do you actually use? Pic attached is a decent wired set, there are bluetooth adapteres. But why use those if there are bluetooth headphones?
I don't care what you use for critical listening, what do you use day in and day out?
>>13843 I use a grado sr80 for every day listening because the open back and limited bass make them good for videos and tv and games.
I want to build up a bigger collection dedicated to music but currently I just use a fostex t50rp, it sounds amazing but you do also need to get a dedicated amp.
Why not use bluetooth? Because I'm sat at a desk so I dont mind having a wire there. Going wireless just means an extra thing to go wrong, as well as the possibility that it will go out of date eventually.
>>13845 I've got a couple of the KZ earphones, and their bluetooth adaptor, and they're miles better than the crappy earphones I could get when I was a teen but still, they're just not quite there.
KZs are cheap and basically fine. I've used (and lost or broken) a lot of much more expensive IEMs, but they weren't that much better. There are probably better options at the price if I was willing to do more research, but I can't be arsed.
Some people want the best they can afford, but I'd rather have something that's decent enough not to be annoying and cheap enough not to worry about. I could easily afford to spend £600 on a high end smartphone, but my £150 mid-ranger does everything I need it to and if I drop it I feel like I'm still £450 up on the deal.
At home I've got a pair of AKG K271s that have lasted me about 10 years now, if not longer. The leather pads got knackered and I had to switch to the felt ones, but other than that still going strong.
At work I keep an old pair of Sennheisser CX400s, these have broken a few times but I have always re-bought the same ones.
I have a gaming headset that sounds awful compared to either of them, but I can't stand faffing around using a seperate desktop mic, and frankly it's overkill to use a C414 condenser just to call teenagers on Call of Duty scrubs.
Pic related for indoors and a pair of JVC HA-L50 for outside, which were the only over ear headphones that were also tiny enough to fit in a reasonable sized pocket I could find. They cost me £50ish and £10ish pounds respectively. Obviously the ten pound pair don't have great audio, but I don't like earbuds and I don't blast music, or podcasts, loud enough for it to matter much while I'm wandering about. The K92s are very good, as far as I can tell. The only time I've heard any crackling from them was when I was playing already very bassy music through the jukebox in Subnautica: Below Zero, which seems to simulate music underwater by dialing the bass up as far as possible. If that is specifically how you like to experience music then they might not be for you.
Wireless headphones have a lot of good qualities, but I switch devices with both my pairs quite a lot, sometimes I go out on walks or trips where I'm using headphones for hours and a lot of wireless headphones are either in-ear or those ones that sit directly on your ears, rather than the area around them, so I've never bothered.
