After 5 years of hard work, my Audio-Technica headphones finally broke last week (during a gig no less which was beyond miserable). Consequently I spent the weekend researching which pair of headphones I wanted to get, which turned out to be quite the mission due to the absurd amount of headphones on the market.

After a lot of reading, and a bit of consulting with some of my colleagues I finally wound up with these:

Sennheiser HD-25-SP-II

Despite having known for a long time that Sennheiser Headphones had a reputation for being good in the studio, I never thought spending $200+ on a pair of dj headphones that were probably not much better than a pair i could get for under $100 was a good idea. Apparently I was wrong.

Aside from being a tad tight on your head (guess it depends on how big your dome is), these things sound amazingly clear, with good bass definition, and crisp highs. They also don’t have a coiled cord which is surprisingly my favortie thing about them because now I don’t constantly have to untangle the chord.

Why am I telling you this? So that if you’re headphones break tonight you know what to do.

Cheers.