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Originally Posted by Skaligojurah
Bose seems to make decent headphones but they are pricey. Never owned one, though, but sampling at stores, you put them on and it seems the entire world around is locked away.
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Well I'm not allowed to say 'no, they don't', as apparently it's always a question of taste.
But according to my (pretty well trained) ears and (720 keystroks a minute, so pretty well trained too
) fingers they sound like cheap ass headphones and feel even cheaper. You just pay for the brand, just like with their speakers. I would avoid bose at all cost.
If you want to know what I'm talking about; Take a set of Bose 201's (their best selling bookshelf speaker) and put them on top of eachother in a normal way. Not very soft, but definitely not very rough. The bottom one will fall apart. I am not kidding
. That's Bose Quality.
And again: I am not kidding. This is a well known fact I laughed about until I sold a set of 201's and put them on top of eachother in the box I wanted to ship them in...
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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio
I can vouch for these headphones, because I've listened to music through them before. My buddy is a sound engineer, and got a tattoo of headphones on his upper arm. He chose this model as the base for his tattoo, sent a picture of it in to AKG, and they sent him these headphones for free.
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Hahaha, they sent him free K141's?
That's just brilliant.
I have the first model (1978), the 'cardan'. They cost about 125 dollars new, now and they are absolutely brilliant. Really really very good. Better than the (way more expensive) Beyerdynamic DT990's which I used before the AKG's. The Beyers were 2 dollars at a thrift store by the way. Yeah, I have a thing with buying microphones and headphones waaaay too cheap.
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He was using mid-price range Sennheisers, but these really do have a better sound, in my opinion.
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The sennheisers are, in my opinion, not very detailed, lack definition in the midrange frequencies and are boomy and bassy. I do own a couple of sennheiser headphones and I wouldn't call them 'bad', but they're no good value for money compared to philips, akg or beyer.
But if you like the AKG K141, you might like the Sennheiser HD25. They are real monitoring headphones. Not sure if you were looking for headphones, but you might want to remember this for future reference
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For what it's worth, he also says that Bose are complete crap, as he used those in one of his sound classes, and eventually just brought his own AKGs in because the Bose bothered him.
And anyone should know Skull Candy are crap.
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Skull candy isn't very expensive. It's just a piece of design so I can't be bothered about those. I am a bit bothered that so many people fall for Bose. It's a pity.
Funny story you tell about the headphones. I did something similar. My exes' parents have Bose 201's in their living room. I went there a couple of times a year to puppysit their dogs and I actually bought a set of (purple!) wharfedale Denton 3xp speakers at a thriftstore the first time I was there, just to replace the boses. It was just awful. After that first time I used to bring my own little Yamaha NX100's...
Oh, shake your buddy's hand for me because of his brilliant headphone taste.
And when he's asleep, silently whisper to him 'Genelec'. He will thank you later
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