Presonus Hd9 Professional Monitoring Headphones, One Size, Black, Hd9 Professional Monitoring Headphones, Hd9, Wireless

Time was when you could buy good quality headphones for very little outlay.Since the rise of the iPOD and smartphone those days are long gone. Now you get what you pay for as manufacturers have sought to squeeze the cash from the headphone generation and you now pay £100 to get what used to cost £25.I was expecting Presonus to be an exception, especially given their reputation, the intended market of project studio users and the reviews of others.Sadly these phones fall into the cheap and cheerful bracket. If cash is really short then they will help until you can buy some serious headphones for the studio, but don't make the mistake of expecting to hear what's really going on in the music. you can use them as a spare pair of tracking headphones but definitely not for mixing - absolutely not.The bass end is solid without falling for the modern fad of over-hyping it but the mids and tops are far from helpful. The mids are hollow and will give you quite the wrong impression of vocal and guitar tonality and dynamics. the top end is somewhat brittle and i cannot see using them over a long session with comfort.As to wearing them, they are light weight and generally comfortable but ooze budget build quality. I don't expect them to cope well with the rigours of the studio.If you are serious about tracking and mixing in your studio then please save up to get something in the £100-£200 range: Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, AKG, so on and so forth. My AB comparisons with such headphones were like switching on and off a light - an unfair test you might say but people make strong claims about these headphones being as good as headphones many times their price: they are not.I am sorry to be negative as I genuinely admire Presonus and use much of their gear, but in this case spending more will certainly get you something better. Use these as your spares.

Sorry Pre-Sonus, I love your audio interface but these headphones were awful. Ive not marked them down to one star because they were nice quality and comfortable for the short period I tried them but the most important factor on headphones was just severely lacking - sound quality.When listening to music or general computer audio the only real problem was the lack of volume. They are so quiet compared to the AKG's that I'm only replacing because they are falling apart. But the problems start when I connected them to my Reface DX synth. In addition to the volume being low they were, let's say, muddy. The sound was almost muffled compared to my old ones (they were on my head correctly!).One final thing, and this may be by design and I just didn't realise it, was that the semi-open back design means that everyone else in the house would be able to hear what I was listening to or playing. Not really what I want at 2AM, and maybe OK if you're Jean Michelle Jarre or Jordan Rudess, but when you're learning to play you don't really want everyone to be able to hear how badly you're banging out Ode to Joy or jingle bells in the early hours!!I don't know if it's the price point and I need to aim higher, or if it's something else but these are certainly not what I was looking for.

Good sound for the money, but some way short of the best. These headphones sit comfortably over the ears, and have a nice long flexible cable which adds to their practicality. They deliver a very listenable sound for their price point, a warmish balance, with a full upper bass, reasonable balance across the other frequencies and decent dynamics. I have used them for listening to a range of music types played via a Sugden CD21 CD player hooked into a Douk headphone amplifier, also for monitoring bass guitar played via a Palmer Pocket Amp Bass. In these situations the Presonus HD7s are pleasant enough to listen to, but in hifi terms fail to deliver the kind of transparency, immediacy, treble clarity, deep bass and dynamic range you get from something like Sennheiser HD 280 studio monitor headphones. Unlike the Sennheisers, the Presonus HD7s are not so cruelly revealing of the limited recording quality of some CDs, so don't be misled by the word 'Studio' in the name.Note that the first set of Presonus HD7s I purchased had a wiring fault. The second set have no such issues.

Good comfortable set of Semi-Closed Headphones, I don't have any complaints at present, the volume through them is clear and concise. For what you could pay with other similar head sets, this is a bargain. Also in my opinion it's very, very comfortable, is big enough to fit most heads. (Please don't ask me for measurements, google information) It is light in my opinion and was worth my hard earned cash, despite some negative reviews.I would suggest you go with your gut feeling on these and any other purchase on Amazon otherwise you'll end up financially worse off for no reason then a bad review.P.S Remember it comes with a jack adapter already screwed on the end of the cable, just unscrew it and it works in normal headphone sockets. I forgot about this initially, which at first startled me until a few seconds later I remembered and unscrewed the attachment. Easily done as no reminder in box.I brought this through Amazon, it came way before the expected delivery time. It is worth getting these if you want quality.

I use these with my Home Studio to play and record Guitar & Bass through my PC. The response is great with excellent bass (but not too much). Every frequency can be heard clearly. I honestly don't believe these can be beaten at the price! They also stack up equally well against headphones at twice the price including both pairs of my Sennheisers. They are extremely comfortable and fit perfectly around my ears to help block out external noise. I really feel immersed in what I'm listening to. I don't have very big ears mind but even if I move them off centre of my ears they are still very comfortable. I haven't given noise cancellation a high rating as the headphones don't actually have that feature but due to the over ear design they still manage to block out some of the outside noise, just not a lot. However, I bought them for indoor use so that was not a concern for me at all.