I have no idea what Sennheiser was thinking when they made these, but they are definitely not something I’d ever recommend for mixing. at last, you good a good balanced sound, clarity, and great isolation for tracking, besides i feel its so comfortable on my ears, i can wear them for hours and hours and forget about them, maybe because the headphone is really BIG! i noticed that when listening to my old mixes (done with my dynaudio's and my 280's) they sound less spacious and wide on the 600's as well as on other playback systems. Similar to the HD 25, including the same frequency response at 16 to 22,000Hz, and 120db maximum SPL.

While the MDR-7506 have held their place as an industry standard for some time, they aren’t without their flaws. So, while these aren’t perfect studio headphones by any standards, they’re good enough for most scenarios. The sound of the headphones at first before they're broken in is rather harsh and very mid-forward, but after a good dozen hours they mellow out and become more smooth, still with a good mid-presence which really emphasizes vocals, and is real useful for vocal tracking. Build – evaluates how well the headphones are put together, the materials used and indicates the expected longevity. To increase the passive sound isolation HD 280 Pro uses relatively strong clamping force, yet the excessive force applied to the listener’s head becomes tiring rather sooner than later.I wouldn't use these cans to mix on (other than reference checking) but the imaging is very deep and wide. On Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," the kick drum loop's attack packs all the treble edge it should, while the coinciding thump of the drum's muffled resonance implies power, but doesn't overwhelm the mix. If you're a creative professional looking to do audio work or field recording, these should definitely be on your shortlist. They may not be exacly what you need for drum tracking or for recording loud amps that happen to be in the room with you--I mean, they have sufficed for both these purpose for me, but I often by with wrong tools for the wrong job.

Of course you all know this is probably the best produced album ever, and this is a great bass tester. However, put on some Bill Evans Trio, close your eyes, and you'll be surprised how convincing the experience of sitting in some smoke-filled jazz club in New York is! The HD280 Pro headphones are a great choice for the Musician or producer that does a lot of their work on the go. My record player's warmth shown through the Pioneer VSX-518 when I played Smashing Pumpkins' remastered version of Gish on vinyl, so it definitely reproduced my love for vinyl perfectly.The only faults is if lacks a lot of stage presence, and they don't feel too warm, they feel a bit flat. When evaluating the frequency response score with the Average calibration profile, the pair to pair consistency of the given model is taken into account – if we have measured a considerable frequency response inconsistency among multiple pairs of the given model, the score drops, as the profile loses accuracy.