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I have a pair of Sennheiser 558s that I use at home for music listening and gaming. I love them. I would love to get a second pair for my office at work. At $150/pair, and my lack of a headphone amp at the office (and listening to Pandora), makes me think a cheaper headset would perform just as well for a work environment. Noise bleed is a not a concern, as I have my own office with a door. However, some form of noise cancelling provided by supra-aural or circum-aural is a must as I want to filter out the lower level general office drone (computers, printers, etc.). Earbuds are out as I previously had some Shure E2Cs that I couldn't wear for more than an hour at a time due to comfort issues. Anyone have a recommendation?
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Electric Bugaloo posted:I'm a big Grado fan. The SR60i is ~70 bucks and the 80i is about $100 (the price difference either gets you markedly better high/low performance or nothing noticeable, depending on who you ask). Both headphones are on the beefy side in terms of construction and cable, which I like for regular desktop use. Both models perform absolutely fine without amplification, though they readily improve with it- making them pretty versatile. My concern with the Grados is they are on-ear headphones. I'd be concerned about isolating outside noises from my office, like coworkers who have no idea that the speakerphone is a poor substitute for the handset. Dogen posted:You don't need an amp for 558s, and have you considered trying some Comply foam tips for IEMs to solve the comfort issue, if that might be a better way to go? They sell a sample pack so you can see what one works best for you. One of my dogs actually ate my Shure E2Cs  Midorka posted:Noise bleed and isolation go hand in hand. Anything that offers good isolation will drown out the hum that you mention, especially while the music is playing. Since you like the HD558 I'm thinking you'd probably like the Brainwavz HM5. The Creative Aurvana Live would probably be a good bet too. Those Brainwavz look pretty sweet. I actually found an old pair of Sennheiser HD200's I forgot I had. They are literally 13 years old. How do they compare to newer headphones?
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Aug 6, 2013 22:38
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Electric Bugaloo posted:I thought you said that isolation wasn't the be-all/end-all because you've got your own office. Sorry, I did a poor job explaining. Sound bleed is OK because of my own office, I won't need to worry about it affecting other coworkers. Sound isolation is a big deal as there is so much ambient noise from coworkers having loud conversations in the hallways, abuse of the speakerphone, printers going off, etc.
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Aug 6, 2013 23:02
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I have a pair of HD558's driven by the internal amp in my Asus Xonar DGX and I have no complaints regarding the sound. However, I'm going to replace my keyboard that has multimedia controls with a tenkeyless mechanical keyboard, sans multimedia controls. Since the keyboard also serves as my volume control I'm looking for a volume knob. Would I be best served by a headphone amp, and would there be any concerns daisy-chaining it with the amp in my sound card? I assume I can disable the xonar amp.
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Aug 14, 2013 05:34
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Dogen posted:Use an autohotkey script or the like to turn some key combo into volume up/volume down. The problem with AHK is it will generally trigger Punkbuster in Battlefield 3. I'm just going to push ahead with buying the mechanical keyboard and deal with the volume control issue once I've had an opportunity to experience life without it.
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Aug 14, 2013 19:45
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Dogen posted:Anyway if you really just want to buy a sound card with a headphone amp get a Xonar DGX. I have one of these and it sounds great with my Senn HD558's.
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