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A Review On: Audio-Technica ATH-M50 Professional Studio Monitor Headphones

Audio-Technica ATH-M50 Professional Studio Monitor Headphones

Rated # 2 in Headphones
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Price paid: $125.00
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Pros: Extremely well made, fantastic price/performance ratio, comfortable, clever (will explain)

Cons: For the price it's to pick out any.

These were bought mainly to be used as my travelling and work headphones. I catch the train to work everyday and quite regularlry go to London to watch Arsenal play which is a 2 n half hours journey.

I was needing something a bit better than iPod earbuds to service me for these runs. My home headphones in the dedicated set up are Denon AH-D7000 which lets be honest will never leave my house due to fear of damage.

Audio Technica M50's get thrown around a lot as THE headphones to get at the £100 price point. I found these limited edition ones brand new for £125.

And well it's safe to say that people do a good job recommending them.

I'll keep mentioining this but for so little money it's hard to go wrong with these, let me explain;

- Build quality is incredible fake leather headband and earmuffs surround a seamingly steel type metal construction, the exterior for the majority is plastic.

- Comes with a clever little screw type 3.5mm jack with a 1/4 inch adapter that screws on and seems to "complete" the jack.

- Come with a soft touch bag for storing the headphones in.

- Cups rotate and pivot on their frames for flexibility and storage (they also fold up)

Sound quality, well for £125 you don't expect audiophile levels of clarity and flatness. But you do get it.

In aplomb as well. It's not hard to see why recording studios use these as their monitoring headphones, these are for the majority "well balanced" admittedly there is a slight lean towards the lower bass range of things but on a whole these are quite naturally flat headphones.

In a nutshell, these are well worth the asking price and indeed the price I paid, I haven't looked back since buying them and neither should you.

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I really enjoyed the M50's when I had them, but they didn't fit my head well. They were too loose around my head, but too tight on my ears. The left ear died on them after a few months of light use, but the RMA process was really easy. Audio-Technica has great customer support.

I would recommend these headphones as well. I traded mine for a pair ATH-AD700 headphones. They're much more comfortable, but lack the bass of the M50's.
I just bought mine about a month ago and I love them. I rarely even use my speakers now. Got mine for $110 too and only took a day to ship.

Waiting on my ModMic now.
Also, my Asus Xonar DX works great with them.