Head/earphones Recommendations Thread

[surferguy78]

hi folks,
noob here.. looking for a wireless headphone. basically use it for listening to music/movie from my MacBook for leisure. need to have ANC and also use it for work and hence need microphone inbuild in it.

I see that there are apple AirPods max, B&O BEOPLAY HX and also beats studio3 wireless... AirPods/beoplay HX are almost 800-850 whereas beats studio3 is almost half price. so what the difference that make it almost half price? 800+ for a headset seems a bit hard to swallow for me so I'm probably looking at around $500 budget unless there is really such a fantastic feature that will warrant me to pay 800+ for a headset.

would like to hear what is the recommendation for wireless headset based on my requirement?

 

[anthonygreenisreal]

Get Airpods Max from Shopee or Lazada, They are always around $660 now.

 

[jamwithyou]

hi folks,
noob here.. looking for a wireless headphone. basically use it for listening to music/movie from my MacBook for leisure. need to have ANC and also use it for work and hence need microphone inbuild in it.

I see that there are apple AirPods max, B&O BEOPLAY HX and also beats studio3 wireless... AirPods/beoplay HX are almost 800-850 whereas beats studio3 is almost half price. so what the difference that make it almost half price? 800+ for a headset seems a bit hard to swallow for me so I'm probably looking at around $500 budget unless there is really such a fantastic feature that will warrant me to pay 800+ for a headset.

would like to hear what is the recommendation for wireless headset based on my requirement?

I saw this and wanted to ask for reccoms as well, but i do not have much to spend with max i could to is around $2-300? Don't really have much allowance to work with

 

[jamwithyou]

Get Airpods Max from Shopee or Lazada, They are always around $660 now.

Are these guaranteed to be originals?

 

[anthonygreenisreal]

Are these guaranteed to be originals?

its shopee and lazada official Apple store. I bought my iphone 13 pro max from there.

 

[jamwithyou]

its shopee and lazada official Apple store. I bought my iphone 13 pro max from there.

Oh alright! That's good to hear. Thank you for the information!

 

[surferguy78]

Get Airpods Max from Shopee or Lazada, They are always around $660 now.

ya I saw that on 10/10. in the end, I went with Sony wh-1000xm4

more friendly with the wallet.

I went to test AirPods max, their spatial audio is good! but I realised that in order to play music with spatial audio effects, the music need to be from Apple Music. which means that my era oldies mp3 files will not be entitled to spatial audio effect even if I get AirPods max. hence get the more economically wallet friendly Sony instead for it's noise cancellation effects...

by the way, Sony also have 360 real audio which sounds good too! BUT it's not supported on Spotify/Apple Music... what a waste... only supported on tidal and 2 other music streaming platform which is not Mandopop focus...

 

[anthonygreenisreal]

ya I saw that on 10/10. in the end, I went with Sony wh-1000xm4

more friendly with the wallet.

I went to test AirPods max, their spatial audio is good! but I realised that in order to play music with spatial audio effects, the music need to be from Apple Music. which means that my era oldies mp3 files will not be entitled to spatial audio effect even if I get AirPods max. hence get the more economically wallet friendly Sony instead for it's noise cancellation effects...

by the way, Sony also have 360 real audio which sounds good too! BUT it's not supported on Spotify/Apple Music... what a waste... only supported on tidal and 2 other music streaming platform which is not Mandopop focus...

Spatial Audio now works with Spotify as well. I just tried it with my AirPods Pro

 

[jamwithyou]

Spatial Audio now works with Spotify as well. I just tried it with my AirPods Pro

I got my airpods as well the other day and it was reslly great! Thanks for the reccom

 

[jamwithyou]

ya I saw that on 10/10. in the end, I went with Sony wh-1000xm4

more friendly with the wallet.

I went to test AirPods max, their spatial audio is good! but I realised that in order to play music with spatial audio effects, the music need to be from Apple Music. which means that my era oldies mp3 files will not be entitled to spatial audio effect even if I get AirPods max. hence get the more economically wallet friendly Sony instead for it's noise cancellation effects...

by the way, Sony also have 360 real audio which sounds good too! BUT it's not supported on Spotify/Apple Music... what a waste... only supported on tidal and 2 other music streaming platform which is not Mandopop focus...

How much did you spend and if you could help where did you get it from?

 

[surferguy78]

How much did you spend and if you could help where did you get it from?

I got it during the 10/10 Lazada sale for 378.

 

[surferguy78]

Spatial Audio now works with Spotify as well. I just tried it with my AirPods Pro

if I'm not wrong, spatial audio is the gyro thingy on apple AirPods pro/max with Dolby Atmos. so if use 3rd party headset, you will only get Dolby Atmos on Apple Music.

 

[surferguy78]

Spatial Audio now works with Spotify as well. I just tried it with my AirPods Pro

hmm... I read that Spotify don't support Dolby Atmos yet... so it support spatial audio? I thought Dolby Atmos is part of spatial audio...

 

[Fa11enangel]

Hi, may I know what headphone is recommended for console gaming(Ps5) /movies on Netflix. Do not need a mic. Wireless/non wireless is OK. Budget aroubd $300.

 

[wiccawizzards]

Hi, may I know what headphone is recommended for console gaming(Ps5) /movies on Netflix. Do not need a mic. Wireless/non wireless is OK. Budget aroubd $300.

In no particular order:

SteelSeries Arctis 7P+ Wireless (or Arctis 1 Wireless if 7P+ is out of your budget, or no stock yet)
HyperX Cloud 2 Wireless (if you can find stock)
Razer Barracuda X

Note: Do also do your own research before buying.

 

[Fa11enangel]

In no particular order:

SteelSeries Arctis 7P+ Wireless (or Arctis 1 Wireless if 7P+ is out of your budget, or no stock yet)
HyperX Cloud 2 Wireless (if you can find stock)
Razer Barracuda X

Note: Do also do your own research before buying.

Thanks for the suggestions! Will likely get the hyper x!

 

[Phen8210]

iem recommendation? $500 budget, prefer worn down type and warm sound signature.

 

[dappermen]

any1 has this too!? got it @$205.2

ATH-CKS5TW​

seeemed old model but gotten this 4 its bass but just ok as i m a fan4 Audio Technica Wired 1s....15hr + 30=45

Audio-Technica ATH-CKS5TW vs Sennheiser Momentum TW​

but Amazon selling it cheaper??after convertg to SGD only140? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...&linkId=8e65ad9b87149cd063ac1f8e37666148&th=1

 

[musicsg_com]

any1 has this too!? got it @$205.2

ATH-CKS5TW​

seeemed old model but gotten this 4 its bass but just ok as i m a fan4 Audio Technica Wired 1s....15hr + 30=45

Audio-Technica ATH-CKS5TW vs Sennheiser Momentum TW​

but Amazon selling it cheaper??after convertg to SGD only140? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...&linkId=8e65ad9b87149cd063ac1f8e37666148&th=1

I find the bass too heavy and lacks treble brightness. This was my impression:



This model has been replaced by ATH-CKS50TW which is just launched in Singapore this month for S$218.

- newly developed large-diameter drivers (9 mm HD TWS drivers with deep bass) deliver deep, powerful bass while ensuring a comfortable fit.
- ducts on the back of the driver control airflow to ensure a detailed acoustic space
- Feed-forward active noise cancellation and Hear-through function supported
- Supports low-latency mode enabled via app
- Supports Sony 360 Reality Audio
- IPX4 water protection
- Sidetone supported during voice calls
- Multipoint pairing supported
- supports aptX Adaptive Audio changes the bit rate of audio according to the radio wave environment and music data transfer status
- EQ presets supported
- Volume step adjustment supported (16-step, 32-step, 64-step)
- Supports Android Fast-Pair
- Supports mono earbud use

 

[dappermen]

I find the bass too heavy and lacks treble brightness. This was my impression:



This model has been replaced by ATH-CKS50TW which is just launched in Singapore this month for S$218.

- newly developed large-diameter drivers (9 mm HD TWS drivers with deep bass) deliver deep, powerful bass while ensuring a comfortable fit.
- ducts on the back of the driver control airflow to ensure a detailed acoustic space
- Feed-forward active noise cancellation and Hear-through function supported
- Supports low-latency mode enabled via app
- Supports Sony 360 Reality Audio
- IPX4 water protection
- Sidetone supported during voice calls
- Multipoint pairing supported
- supports aptX Adaptive Audio changes the bit rate of audio according to the radio wave environment and music data transfer status
- EQ presets supported
- Volume step adjustment supported (16-step, 32-step, 64-step)
- Supports Android Fast-Pair
- Supports mono earbud use

tks 4 the details & may i ask which website did u find these ? so glad to learn tt it is newly-launched
but wht is "mono earbud use" ? means single usage of just 1earpc

regd this "EQ presets supported" i just couldnt get my firmwre installed