[linux-audio-user] Good Studio Hearphones

Dave Robillard drobilla at connect.carleton.ca
Wed Jul 21 19:10:44 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:59, Chris Pickett wrote:
> I had a pair of K141's, and I had to crank the headphone control on my 
> mixer to 10/10 (with per-channel levels at 0 db).  With 271S's and 
> anything else, louder than 5/10 is actually painful.  But, I really 
> loved the sound of the K141's as well (they fell apart eventually).
> 
> By the way, is any old leather softener fine for the ear pieces?  I find 
> that the hardened leather hurts my ears after a while.
> 
> Chris

I have a pair of K141's as well, I use them for pretty much everything. 
They are hard to drive, but I have an amp so I don't really care. :)

I like the sound of them over almost any set of 'phones I've heard
though...

-DR-




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