But for me, the Blue Mofi gets more use now than anything else.
Yek pretty much nailed the reasons why. The onboard amps are very powerful and useful for me in the studio working alongside loud live amps and cabs. They're also the business on a flight.
This might have clinched it for me.
I've been researching Headphones for a bit, and like *someone* said, it is flat out dizzying with all the information and opinionated views of these things. In the next few months (unless the housing market changes and I can actually buy a reasonably priced house...yeah, Denver's brutal right now), I'll be in some form of Condo, where my roaring CLR's will be tested for (dreaded) low volume performance.
I have been looking at:
-AKG Q/K 701 (Quincy Jones sig, and Standard).
-Beyer Dynamic DT 880 (32 OHM).
-Sennheiser HD 380 Pro
Many of those mentioned here are WAY out of price range for what I want to spend (Audeze...WOW.) The AKG and Beyer were in the lead to start out with, but reading reviews about the 'open' nature of them threw me off. That may produce a more natural sound, but I want to avoid sonic 'bleed' from external sources, and so I can listen to them in a room without everyone else hearing 'American Idiot' blaring.
I've also noticed that these are right on the cusp of needing a headphone amp to get the most out of them. While that's not out of the question at some point (hey, there are some COOL looking tube 12AU7 ones...tube itch scratched), I would not want that to be a necessity. This thread came along just at the right time, and I hadn't considered the Blue Mo-Fi. This seems to handle all of my concerns very handily.
Yeah, $350 is more than I want to pay, but the last one's I purchased were somewhere in the 2005 range, so it's not an expense that comes around often.
Did I mention I love this board?
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