An end game headphone for £90?
I have seen this headphone on many many you tube videos in studio and recording artists and was wondering why this headphone has become an industry standard for many recording studios and musicians over the past 30 years and now I have this in my collection I can honestly see and understand why this headphone is such an industry standard, but what is often overlooked and not mentioned is how wonderful this headphone is for leisure and listening pleasure.

The headphones are well constructed and clearly built to last, a soft padded headband with easy adjustments with a solid click for each increment. The earcups are a combination of quality plasitcs and metal for the piece with the Sony Logo the the classy ‘Professional’ wording. The cable is a coiled cable which is well made and quite thick which insills a degree of confidence in the cables quality.

The earpads are a soft pleather material which is thin and will have to be replaced after 3 or so years as this is well known to disintergrate over time. They are of the type that is a between on the ear and over the ear depending if you are a dumbo or a normally gifted ear size. They are very soft and very comfortable though and I have no issues with the comfort they afford me and can wear these for hours on end with NO discomfort.

Now onto the most important bit of my reveiw the SOUND. I have owned many headphones from Stax, Beyerdynamic, Sennheisser, AKG, HiFiman, Audio Technica mostly higher end models in the ranges and let me tell you these Sony MDR 7506 are incredible! I can’t quite get my head around how a 90 headphone can put many much more expensive models to shame, Sony engineers obviously did some kind of deal with the devil to extract this kinda quality out of this 40mm Dynamic driver all those years ago.

Yes Iam going to give you the old cliche of saying Iam hearing things in my tracks that I have honestly never heard before and everything sounds so natural and not forced in any way. The treble is verging on the bright side but never seems to go into the realm of being harsh it just sits there in perfect balance with the rest of the sound spectrum. Bass is tight and well controlled and can go DEEP into the sub bass when the recording has it. You can hear individual notes that are well seperated from the rest of the mix.

Mids are lovely and natural with womens vocals (that can pull apart even the most very expensive headphones) are rendered with a wonderful realism that is truly mesmerising Diana Krall never sounded SO good.

Soundstage being a closed back is not in the Sennheiser HD800 league obviously but it is portrayed very realistically with good imaging and separation and does not sound congested in anyway.

These headphones faithfully portray the mix as it is which is exactly what they are designed for.

These are a keeper and will remain in my collection and will be used most frequently than many others, now I understand why these headphones are such an industry standard and put many many other headphones to shame. designed over 30 years ago and never beaten for what it does.

A true game changer for me and a headphone I now fully understand.

WOW, just wow!
first off, let me say, I’m not an audiophile. I appreciate good sound but I’m not anal about it. Although, that may change after listening to these babies! they are AWESOME.

I wanted some decent headphones for the sound on my low budget film, under a 100 but I wanted to beable to listen to music on them as well. After reading a ton of reviews, it was a toss up between the Sennheiser hd280 pros, the Shure srh440 or these/the v6 model (the mdrV6 are the consumer version of these, pretty much identical)

I listened to Rack City remix by Tyga, the studio version of Everything Has A Price To Pay by Paul Weller and 24 Ghosts 3 by Nine Inch Nails.

The Hd280 pros and well, they sounded… kinda.. meh. nothing really special. Not really any bass at all. they were out.
The Shure srh440’s sounded awesome but they weren’t as crisp and they looked kinda cheap. (build quality was excellent though).

The Sony MDR7506 blew me away. the sound quality was outstanding. the highs were high (maybe a little bright, but I quite like that) the mids were tight and the bass was good. it wasn’t stupid head shaking bass like you get from beats by dre, it was proper, decent audible bass.

These headphones just bring the music to life, I’ve heard so much more detail in songs. In Rack City, you can hear him take a breath inbetween bars, in the Paul Weller track you can hear him tap his fingernails on the guitar to keep time and in the NIN track, well… you can hear every little mechanical/midi sound. everything just sounds so much clearer and… Better. (and I’ve come from some decent headphones, the Sennheiser hd205 dj’s).
The ONLY bad point to note is that the earcups on these have a habit of folding up on themselves when you place them down, but other than that there isn’t anything I don’t love about these.

Sure there’s better headphones costing 700,800+ but anything under that, in my opinion, gets crapped all over by these.

These headphones are studio quality. Google them and you’ll find loads of pics of them being used in studios all over the world, everybody from Dave Grohl to Justin Beiber use these badboys. with good reason, they’re amazing.

if you want bass that shakes your eyeballs, get some beats(or better yet, save your money and get some skull candy, you obviously dont care about decent music) but if you want to HEAR your music get these. end of. you will not be dissapointed.