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Reddit Reviews
flipaflipAiaiai tma2 Stan here reporting in!
surrealchemistMy most recent ones are AiAiAi Studio Pros. Wanted something more flat in response and had some coupons. When I am out in a noisey environment I have some Sony ANCs. If you want a cheaper option the Koss Porta Pros still sound pretty damn good and have that cool retro look.
Inevitable_Smoke2094After wasting a butt load of money on being a desperate audiophile slut: AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio Headphones seem to tickle all my fancies. Unsolicited in-ear shout out to Audio Technicas ATH-CKS50TW's.
jessiah331The AIAIAI studio headphones are on sale for $100USD right now. They may not be the "best" studio headphones (the Beyerdynamic suggested above are amazing but over the 100 price point), but since he's doing so much with them and playing live, they're fully modular so every single piece can be replaced if it breaks.
I think it's also highly dependent on which drivers you get, some are much worse than others. I've been generally happy with mine at least for DJing.
taffykingI use a pair of AIAIAI TMA-2 Studios while producing/writing/tweaking the creative mix, then I move to a pair of Sennheiser HD600s /w Sonarworks for more critical listening and mixing.
ADHDJ86Aiaiai tm- 2 best ive had. Ive had numerous sennheiser, pioneer, technics
GrizzlyRCAOver ears go for AIAIAI
Evening-Spirit-5684i agree with the iem recommendations. i live in the tropics, even the cables fall apart. nothing survives. before i went iems, i went tma2. because they were modular and replaceable. but the cables, band, and cushion covers fell apart. every year. the covers fell apart. if you get the alcantara bands those last longer than the leather ones only because the connecting cables have a cloth mesh covering. but i dont like the alcantara in my climate. i slowly started to swap out all my headphones with iems. havent regretted it yet. it’s been a year and only had to replace a cable so far.
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