Headphones ~$70 10 year or lifetime warranty? detachable cord?

[bussy233]

Hi, for music production, I'm looking for headphone recommendations that are:


- around $70 with a 10 year warranty but preferably lifetime, would spend $100 if better quality and lifetime.

Some companies offer no-questions-asked warranty and will repair even if you step on them or something which is nice but I'm mostly concerned about problems from normal use. I don't blast them though.

- Oval cans (by cans I mean the actual headphone, circle ones underlap my ears sometimes and I don't even have huge ears)

- Padded top of course. No leather/animal products.

- detachable cord and can use regular 1/8 cable I can get off ebay for like $2, not some specialty jack $50 replacement cable.

- No mic or added bells and whistles.

- No default bass boost. I can EQ bass myself if I want.

- Closed back and noise isolating. (I want no sound to exit the headphone. For noise canceling vs isolating, either should be fine but I don't need to spend more for canceling).



I searched for hours. I wasted a lot of time at first looking for ones with 10 foot cords which I need and then learned they make them with detachable cords a lot now which also eliminates a lot of problems with possibly tugging the cord while it's stuck on something but that can still F up the jack port and make it finicky.


All I found so far with lifetime warranty is most KOSS and Skullcandy but I don't think they have exactly what I'm looking for. 10 year warranty should be fine but anything shorter and I would probably just make do with KOSS or skull candy. I'm also tempted to just get a $25 pair of Monoprice 8323 because they get such good reviews and be done with the search.


I don't want to support sennheizer anymore. I had a $60 pair of them I liked from 2001 that lasted me maybe 8 years (with soldering repairs) but the $40 HD428 pair I have of them now the cord is the thinnest cord I have ever seen even vs dollar store earbuds. It hasn't broke in maybe a year or more but I have to be extra careful with them plus I need a 10 foot cord and I have the 6 foot cord adaptered to an extension which is finicky and doesn't produce sound unless it's a very particular way hence I am looking for new ones. Thanks

[BertKoor]

Well, there are some problems with detachable cords:
* They might detach at their own will. The extra contact point is a liablilty imho, soldered is far better.
* There's no industry standard, so getting a replacement in 10 years time might be a problem.
* If you have a screw driver set and a soldering iron, you can replace any cord with the length you need for less money.

Personally I wouldn't worry too much about warranty. The cans I bought so far all still work fine and had the usual warranty of one or maybe 2 years. Just look out for flimsy constructions of the bowed part that holds both cans together, there's where it usually goes wrong: inherent design problems.

[rod_zero]

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD280 for studio duties and djing, they have standed the test of time and heavy use,. They islote incredible well and their response is quite good.

Sennheiser also offer replacement parts so they can last you a lifetime.

[bussy233]

I'm close to just getting monoprice 8323s. But what would you say are the best $80-$100 pair that has everything I'm asking in the first post except the lifetime warranty but has at least a year or preferably longer warranty and more importantly something that I can buy replacement parts like speakers or jack ports if they ever do break?
thanks.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Well, there are some problems with detachable cords:
* They might detach at their own will. The extra contact point is a liablilty imho, soldered is far better.

never found this to be an issue with my krk8400's. the connection requires insertion, then twisting to lock...it aint goin' nowhere

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

suggestion for the op to join up at head-fi.org. these guys know their cans