By the way, the Sony MDR 7506 are identical to the MDR V6. They sound the same and look the same. The only difference is that the V6's miniplug is nickel plated and the 7506's is gold plated and that the 7506's are marketed towards the professional audio market while the V6's are marketed towards the consumer audio market. I highly recommend the V6's for $69, they will last you a hell of a long time and sound excellent and anything, and I mean ANYTHING, will power them properly. I've also tried the Sennheiser HD 201's and liked them a lot.
By the way, these are also awesome headphones:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=yamaha+headphones&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=11113999328709153225&ei=U1DfScGEEJOotAOnsvSyCQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&resnum=1&ct=result#ps-sellers
They sounded great when I owned them, only problem was that the pleather padding started to crack and fall apart. At least with the 7506/V6's you can swap out the pads with the velour pads Beyerdynamic uses on their DT250 series headphones.
Frequency Range
5 Hz - 30 kHz
for the V6
Frequency Range
10 Hz - 20 kHz
for the 7506
oh, and a two dB difference for max input.
If you want a small portable pair, check out the Koss Portapros. I have a pair of these and love them and they are around $25-35 and come with a little case.
PORTAPRO (http://www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf/p?OpenForm&pc^pt^PORTAPRO)
The PortaPro by Koss is covered by Koss' No*Questions*Asked Lifetime Warranty.
By the way, the Sony MDR 7506 are identical to the MDR V6. They sound the same and look the same. The only difference is that the V6's miniplug is nickel plated and the 7506's is gold plated and that the 7506's are marketed towards the professional audio market while the V6's are marketed towards the consumer audio market. I highly recommend the V6's for $69, they will last you a hell of a long time and sound excellent and anything, and I mean ANYTHING, will power them properly. I've also tried the Sennheiser HD 201's and liked them a lot.
By the way, these are also awesome headphones:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=yamaha+headphones&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=11113999328709153225&ei=U1DfScGEEJOotAOnsvSyCQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&resnum=1&ct=result#ps-sellers
They sounded great when I owned them, only problem was that the pleather padding started to crack and fall apart. At least with the 7506/V6's you can swap out the pads with the velour pads Beyerdynamic uses on their DT250 series headphones.
Frequency Range
5 Hz - 30 kHz
for the V6
Frequency Range
10 Hz - 20 kHz
for the 7506
oh, and a two dB difference for max input.
If you want a small portable pair, check out the Koss Portapros. I have a pair of these and love them and they are around $25-35 and come with a little case.
PORTAPRO (http://www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf/p?OpenForm&pc^pt^PORTAPRO)
The PortaPro by Koss is covered by Koss' No*Questions*Asked Lifetime Warranty.
Uh huh:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/sony-mdr-v6-mdr-7506-a-218888/
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/sony-mdr-v6-7506-a-18803/
There's countless threads about the 7506 vs. the V6 on head-fi. They are the same exact headphone. There's even one thread where a guy purchased the 7506's and one ear cup has 'MDR 7506' imprinted on it and the other ear cup had 'MDR V6' imprinted on it.
Lastly, it's laughable that you would look to the frequency specs posted by the manufacturer...I never look at that them because surely you don't think a headphone can reproduce that frequency (5Hz vs 10Hz for the bottom end of the spectrum), right?
Oh one more thing, the Porta pros color the sound too much for my liking (way too much mid bass emphasis).
edit, unfortunately the pics are long gone: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/sony-mdr-v6-vs-mdr-7506-beyer-pads-1378/