Best headphones around £130?

jwilliamson47 · 13 Jul 2016 at 12:40

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has some recommendations for headphones around the £130 mark?

Ryanr1987 · 13 Jul 2016 at 13:44

My fav in that price range was the A900X I prefer it to a lot of headphones up to £300.

Cookeh · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:03

DT770 gets a lot of praise and recommendation around here for very good reason.

What will you be using it for, and what will you powering it for? We can spec you headphones all day long but they could all be entirely useless without this info.

jwilliamson47 · 13 Jul 2016 at 16:21

Cookeh said:
DT770 gets a lot of praise and recommendation around here for very good reason.

What will you be using it for, and what will you powering it for? We can spec you headphones all day long but they could all be entirely useless without this info.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. At the moment I'm just using the onboard audio from my Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5P but could invest in an audio interface. Mostly using it for gaming, music, some recording/editing.

stoke1863 · 13 Jul 2016 at 22:54

I think the MSR7 is around this price? Better than the DT770 when I had both

I got the HD600 used in good condition for £125

gregorius · 14 Jul 2016 at 08:52

jwilliamson47 said:
Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has some recommendations for headphones around the £130 mark?

I've been very pleased with my Sennheiser HD598SE that I've had for about six months.

jwilliamson47 · 14 Jul 2016 at 14:06

Thanks for the replies, decided to try out some Bang and Olufsen H6's since they were on offer for £125.00.

R3X · 17 Jul 2016 at 20:15

You got 2 kinds open headphones (leak noise but sound generally better) or closed headphones (more isolated and dampen noise leakage)

Any Senn headphones from HD595 to 2nd hand HD600 or + or as said above HD595SE are all excellent open type headphones.

Otherwise the top closed headphone choices are DT770, Audio technica A900X, or AKG 550s.

I own the AKG 550, slightly better then my older A900s and much better noise isolation, however closed headphones can limit the openess of sound and open headphones will sound better but then so can everyone else hear them too !

Spec-Chum · 22 Jul 2016 at 09:34

The DT990's have had a recent price drop to £109 and I think are a great buy for that price.

They're not for everyone tho, they're very V-shaped and the treble can be very harsh (I really didn't mind the treble) but I think they sound excellent and the sub bass is outstanding for movies and games.

Only reason I sold mine was I had a pair of HP200's also and couldn't really warrant 2 pairs. The HP200's retail for double the price, however.