How about a review of the in-ear models?
Motörheadphönes Motörizer rock 'phones review
One retailer’s Motörheadphönes Motörizer page caught my attention today. “Warning!” it shrieked, “The packaging and product includes explicit language. Not suitable for children under the age of 18.” Quite apart from the fact that whoever wrote those words has clearly not set foot in a British secondary school for a fair few …
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Tuesday 4th December 2012 15:10 GMT A J Stiles
The Big Question
As any fule kno, two dots over a letter can be either a diaeresis -- as in "naïve" -- indicating that it and the preceding letter are meant to be pronounced separately; or an umlaut -- as in "führer" -- indicating that the sound is changed as though by a following "e" (which is an acceptable alternative spelling if accented characters are not available).
Given all which, can you spell "diaeresis" using an umlaut, as "diäresis" ?
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Friday 30th November 2012 12:22 GMT Qarumba
Mugphones
Reasonable priced at £130! Who would have thought that there were enough fools in the world to fork out this kind of money for a bit of plastic, cloth and a pair of small speakers? But then who would have thought there were enough fools to fork out stupid money for "training" shoes. Just another fashion statement.
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Friday 30th November 2012 12:43 GMT Lloyd
Re: All so establishment in old age...
Don't forget The Skids flogging Halfords kit, Sham 69 flogging McDonalds in the naughties, The Maiden flogging Lucozade in the 80's/90's. I want to see Henry Rollins flogging Hello Kitty (literally), it's a shame GG Allin isn't around any more, he could have done a nice line in Domestos.
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Friday 30th November 2012 12:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
If they're good enough for Herr Kilmister...
They're good enough for me.
This is the third or fourth review I've read about these phönes and every review has been amazingly favorable.
Think headmaster Lemmy had any say in them or is he just fattening up his retirement fünd ?
Nah, forget it...that was a stupid question.
Rock on Lemmy !
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Friday 30th November 2012 13:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
They just look like normal cans with a logo stuck on them. I would have expected them to be more crazy and in your face.
Still, I imagine Lemmy's choice of symbols probably wouldn't have gone down well generally. He does like his Nazi and WW2 symbols, but because he is an anarchist not a nazi or racist (or so he says).
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Friday 30th November 2012 14:12 GMT Tom 38
Paying for the name
I think I'd rather have a nice pair of Sennys than this. Then you aren't constrained by "This is the Motorhead over ear model" and can actually choose the acoustic characteristics you prefer.
Personally, I have a lovely set of open backed, over ear, Sennheiser HD 558s, cost about the same as this.
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Friday 30th November 2012 16:25 GMT Bradley Hardleigh-Hadderchance
Massive Lemmy fan here
Geezer! Actually really is an exceptionally good bass player. Doesn't glorify drink/drugs. Hell, I even like his growly voice.
But, you can get a pair of cans as good and save yourself a hundred quid. I haven't tried the cans, so take what I say with a pinch of salt, but I would be surprised if they are better than these - Presonus HD-7.
I've got a few pairs of cans and have written at some length about them before, but I just happened to be wearing these now and they really are a very strong/light/great sounding pair of cans. They can hold it with the industry standard Sony 7506s I also have. I'm not affiliated with Presonus in any way.
You can find them for under £30 if you shop around. And for less than £100 you can get the Presonus AudioBox USB bundled with it too. This package also comes with Studio One Artist, a cut down version of their top-notch Digital Audio Workstation. So if you feel like playing producer or trying your hand at songwriting or just messing about with a really fun and powerful bit of kit, you can also save £30 on what the Motorhead cans cost.
In fact Studio One Artist costs about £80 if you just bought that by itself. And of course if you wanted to upgrade to the full professional version, then the upgrade would be cheaper than if you bought the full one outright.
I think I've got the price right on that bundle, but there are so many options I might have got it a bit wrong. Google around and see for yourself. They have mics included with some packages and if you didn't have one already you would kind of need one for a lot of stuff, such as recording your cat screaming or your wife snoring ;-) or, hey, push the boat out - your cat snoring and your wife, well you get the picture.
Here is a list of differences and plugins etc..
http://studioone.presonus.com/what-are-the-versions/
Back to the cans, really, for £30 inc. delivery, you would be hard pushed to find an overall better set.
Then again, maybe the Motorheads really are excellent and worth the money..........
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Friday 30th November 2012 18:27 GMT Bradley Hardleigh-Hadderchance
Owww indeed...
Wouldn't you just have to switch the loudness button on, thereby inverting back the already inverted Fletcher-Munson Curve? I would assume that anyone listening to Motorhead on cans would do this by default anyway, the hairy old rockers that they (probably) are. Maybe that's why they put in that feature - to neutralize the frequency response.
Not really what an Audio Engineer would appreciate though. Then again <cough>NS10s</cough>.
Good catch, missed that.
Trying to get a frequency response graph for the HD7 and came across this link which likened the HD7s to Superlux hd681b cans.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/546556/superlux-express-train/285
Interesting. Must look into that.
This is my rough criteria for what a decent set of cans should have.
1/ Do they sound good?
2/ Is the lead long enough, but not too long?
3/ Do they look cool (will they make me look like a tit when the fem vox comes to do her take, or worse, make her look like a tit, thereby crushing her already too fragile ego and throwing a hissy one?)?
4/ Will they break if I sit on them?
5/ Do they sound good?
Btw, you can now get Isone Pro for free over at http://www.jeroenbreebaart.com/
This plug in pack contains over a dozen of the best VST ever coded, by an authority on the subject and a very generous individual. You wouldn't need anything else, but this, it has all the tools needed to do a professional production. You just have to figure out how to use them, that's the hard bit ;-).
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Isone Pro - Binaural simulator
Isone Pro comes as bundle of two plugins:
Isone Pro - for simulation of a stereo loudspeaker setup; and
Isone Pro Surround - for simulation of a multi-channel setup.
With Isone pro, a virtual reproduction system and listening room can now be experienced simply using a high-quality headphones. The virtual reproduction system supports a variety of known reference loudspeakers. Furthermore, the reverb time of the virtual listening room and the distance to the virtual loudspeakers can be fully customized.
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Well, I suppose the HD7s must be 'high-quality', because I can hear one hell of a difference, with this plugin and these cans. It's easy to forget you've got them on and you're not listening on speakers. It's uncanny.
Btw, it caused a bit of a stir when he decided to give away his whole pack for free. He has new ones you can buy though. It really is worth reading his biography at the site. Impressive. Very impressive. And his plugins speak for themselves. I've bought a few myself.
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