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I need to buy a new set of headphones for use during long editing sessions in client offices. Comfort, quality and audio fidelity are what I’m looking for. Not really knowing where to start I polled my creative friends to get their advice. Thanks to Alex, Gareth and Adam for all their input which has provided the content for this post.

Here are their top choices…

Basic headphone knowledge:

For comfort, you will definitely want circumaural headphones – which basically means the pads sit around the earlobe, rather than pressing down on them.

For quality, and suitability of your particular use, you want Monitoring headphones, or Reference Monitors – which is self explanatory really… they are designed for monitoring, so wont ‘colour the sound’ too much. Continue reading →