Sennheiser HD 201

When looking for a pair of headphones to use with my PC, I was looking for the following attributes: 1. I wanted a pair of large closed cup headphones, the type that covered my ears as I hate in ear ones. 2. Decent sound quality so that I could listen to music and really enjoy the experience 3. I wanted to be able to sit in the same room as my daughter while she was playing her music full blast without hearing that annoying boom-da-boom noise coming from her direction. 4. I wanted to get all of this without spending a fortune, my budget was just £30. I spent quite a bit of time looking round at headphones before I ...  Read the complete review

****Yama Time!**** In the last few years, I've rediscovered a passion for playing piano, and as part of the therapeutic, artistic process, when the mood takes, I do like to energetically bash out those melodies to produce my very own, triumphantly noisy, wall of sound. Now, my good lady wife on the other hand, whilst fully appreciating my efforts to develop my craft, always prefers to wait until I've actually learned a piece properly before wishing to hear my impassioned often wrong-noted output. So rather than me continue to wreak havoc on my mother-in-laws upright piano, we compromised and invested in a Yamaha keyboard, on the firm understanding ...  Read the complete review

The first model of Sennheisers HD range the HD201's are naturally the cheapest and are not really aimed at any specific purpose other than for 'general listening' so as to be fairly good for all types of applications as opposed to really good at one type of application. The closed black earpads are surprisingly comfy for a pair of this price and they looked to be fairly robust until I hit them with a hammer and then they ceased to work. The Sennheiser HD201 has a frequency response of 21Hz - 18Khz and SPL (sound pressure levels) set to 108 DB. These headphones are not ideal for recording/monitoring or undertaking serious projects where ...  Read the complete review

I came across these headphones when visiting New York, and i was absolutely shocked when i tried a demo with them. I turned the sound up as loud as i could and the sound clarity was simply amazing. The headphones do a very good job of keeping external noises out and the cans amplified the bass and treble very well. I bought a pair for myself and they work very well when using them with my iPod and Computer. The headphones compliment all styles of music and work very well using the "bass booster" preset equalizer. The cable is very long and ideal if you want to be moving around or want to sit away from your source of music. The cable is ...  Read the complete review

Being made by Sennheiser, I was expecting these headphones to be at least worth the £15 they cost me. Well, they exceeded my expectations. I have read in several reviews that these are excellent but simply don't have enough bass and I can see why people would say this. When connected to my computer via a Creative Audigy 2 sound card they come across as almost tinny and lack any low end punch. However, when using these headphones to listening to my Sony MP3 player there's plenty of oomph without a trace of distortion even at high volumes. They proved they could reproduce clean bass so with some tinkering with the EQ on my computer I managed to get them sounding pretty ...  Read the complete review