RØDE NTH-100 Professional Over-ear Headphones For Content Creation, Music Production, Mixing and Audio Editing, Podcasting, Location Recording,Black

New to professional headphones. Initially bought a pair of Sony 7506, supposedly the industry standard: I hated them immediately (cheap plastic, uncomfortable, questionable sound quality).Bought these Rode headphones and immediately loved them: quality feel, comfortable on the ears, good sound quality! I can’t imagine finding anything better.I rarely give five star reviews (usually 4 stars for products I like because there’s usually room for improvement somewhere) but these are a perfect five, Baby!

I feel compelled to write a review. Every time I've ever ordered a pair of closed back headphones, this comfort + isolation + sound signature is what I was hoping for. I'm just here for a good closed back, I don't care about monitoring. The NTH-100 is more than adequately comfortable, isolates adequately well (no ANC competitor but that's also not why I'm here), and the sound is FULL yet uncongested and balanced. Everything's there, in the right proportions. Highs are not fatiguing and I'm very satisfied with the level of detail they can reproduce. Not as "open" sounding as my 6XXs (obv) but for most genres I think I prefer the NTH-100 outright. Imaging might be a lil better on the 6XX but I'm certainly not complaining. Better sound signature than my M1060s. They absolutely take a dump on my M50Xs and Meze 99 noirs. Significantly better than pad swapped M40s from memory. Unless I need the form factor of earbuds, I'd take these over my FiiO FH7s, and I LOVE those.Seriously I bought these because Z said they finally fill the SOLID under 200 closed back segment and I wanted to check out the state of the art (haha). And yeah, I don't know what more you'd want out of a $150 closed back. Put, say, an Audeze logo on these and I'm confident people would happily shell >>$150. Rode did a truly bang up job here. Good on ya mates.Notes- Can power these to uncomfortable volumes on most songs using the apple lightning dongle and they sound pretty good, although of course they sound better on my desktop amp.- Stock cable is of good quality but pretty microphonic, ima try to find an alternative now that these are here to stay.- Adjustment method is kinda weird, not really well suited to sharing between multiple users with different head sizes as it takes some effort to satisfyingly adjust. However, I do appreciate that they lock once in a good place for me.- I really like the ear cup shape comfort/design wise. I'm very happy with the design overall.- They feel really well built- You should probably buy these

Good build quality. Comfortable to wear for a long duration and very pleasant sounding to my non-audiophile ears. I think it's a great looking headphone as well. Although, this is my first real higher quality headset and I'm unable to compare them to others. I'm generically very happy with the purchase and feel that it's good value for the price.The problem with the plastic part breaking, I think may have been fixed by the manufacture. Either way, this has a life time warranty. So, I decided to not worry about it too much. Don't forget to register your headphone with the manufacture when you get them.Few negatives: 1) Proprietary cord is a pain. I can't swap for another higher quality cord easily. BTW, the provided cord is waaaaay too long unless if you are the type to sit on a chair and connect to the stereo system. 2) Where the cord attaches is directly on top of my shoulders. It's slightly annoying especially if you wear a hoodie or other jackets that are bulky at the shoulder. It rubs on it too much. (This is the number one complaint for me) 3) It's a bit bulky. It's not too comfortable to sling this around your neck.

These ‘phones sound true. Nothing seems to be boosted or recessed compared to the rest of the sonic spectrum. Are there more engaging, more fun, more magical headphones out there? Of course, I have some of them. However, when I had my wife do a voiceover for a cheesy video project I was working on, these were the ones that sounded the most like her actual voice.The build seems solid for being mostly plastic. The adjustment works for my weird head(my ears are too far up on my head so I have to adjust it all the way up). The ear cups are comfy and the cooling gel works for about the first twenty mins or so. The tension in the headband (the “clamp” as some call it)holds them on as long as I don’t rock out too hard.Quibbles, well the ear cups are just barely large enough to fit around my ears. The cable is a bit long and transmits vibration up to the cup when it rubs on things(I think this has to do with the tight lock on the connection to the ear cup). That’s pretty much it.If you are looking for a closed back headphone that is fairly neutral and accurate, I’d put these up at the top of your short list.