Cankles-McJeggings I’m amazed I haven’t. Some of the damage I did to my ears, especially with the Shelley’s/eclipse systems was off the chain. I spent days with partial hearing usually into midweek.

you lot are lucky bastards!

I’ll be honest, I’m purely spitballing here, but I’ve seemed to notice:

  1. My friends with DJ careers who have tinnitus, seem to have used Sennheiser HD-25 headphones for years and years
  2. I get much worse hearing damage (ringing for hours) from Mids and Trebles than bass
  3. Someone wrote a post recently about how much brighter/harsher HD-25 headphones are in these areas when turned up, compared with other headphones

Although the HD-25 are crystal clear, I own a pair of those and I own a pair of “AIAIAI TMA-2 DJ Preset” - which I played on for 7 years prior, and I can definitely tell how easy it is on my mixer to turn the HD-25s up too loud in comparison.

      I bought and sold the senhiessers within a month.
      Absolutely awful for DJing. Harsh , uncomfortable you name it. Horrible fucking things. I switched to Sony Mdr7506s and have never looked back. Over 20 years in fact.

        Cankles-McJeggings pretty much everyone DJs with them in Finland. I also don’t like them. I really miss my A&H Xone-headphones that got stolen. Wish they’d still make them. The Phonon’s I use now are also discontinued, but losing them too is not a high risk situation as I only use them at home. Too expensive, and delicate. I have Audio Technica ath-m50s for gigs, they’re pretty close to the Xone-headphones in terms of sound.

            My wife thinks I’m going deaf, but I get my hearing tested every year as part of my medical and it’s on the turn, but nothing to worry about. She could help my not speaking to me whilst walking away and whispering so that she feels she has an excuse to berate me for having to say everything twice. The reality is that I’m just not listening.

              The Mrs tells me I have 2 major faults.

              I don’t listen - and something else.

              I’ll check my inbox!

                Digweed, Carl Cox and Brixton Academy did me. Sides of my head were numb after leaving the club.

                Got shredded and it miraculously disappeared… until COVID.

                  Smallman1 The Mrs tells me I have 2 major faults.

                  I don’t listen - and something else.

                  I’ll check my inbox!

                  Surprised she’s still there. Can’t be long now.

                    NasserAlazzawi The HD25s are loud, I think partially because they isolate so well, but they’re not bright by any stretch. Their frequency response is boosted around 100-200 hz and they dip around 5000-6000 hz (and get wobbly in that range).

                    I found most djs I played back to back with had the monitors up too high and compensated by turning their cans up to match. That’s more likely the issue.

                    • erik replied to this.

                        303abuser yes, I’ve found this too after taking over from people, headphones turned up to migraine because the monitors are too loud

                          I remember going b2b with another dj and couldn’t be in the booth while she was mixing because the monitor made my ears physically hurt.

                          Best advice I ever got was to turn the cans and monitor all the way down, go out to the middle of the dancefloor to get a baseline for the floor volume and how the eqs are set up, then bring the monitor volume up just loud enough to hear it, then do the same with the headphones. Once you’ve calibrated it, use the line gains to level out the individual records and you won’t be constantly pushing the volumes up and destroying your ears (and the ears of everyone in the club).