QUOTE(GundamManiac @ May 23 2010, 04:36 PM)
Hi all, just bought an ATH-M30 and loving it, but want something more.
I wanna ask all you gurus' opinion. AD700 vs M50, which one should I get?
BTW: I recommend Asus Xonar Essence STX with built-in headphone amp.
I'm no guru but I own both of the 2 headphones and I love em both.
Can't recommend you which one you should go for because it really depends on what are you using it for.
I love my AD700 because it's uber comfortable, even after hours and hours of usage.. I don't really need to take em off. Soundstage is really large and great positioning for FPS gaming. Bass wise is abit light and doesn't have the omph like the M50. For music wise I love to use them for accoustic and more clasical sounding music.
My M50 are for bass need such as trance tracks. Don't expect the M50 to totally rumble your head though. I still gotta tweak the EQ on the lower frequency to make it suit my flavour. Also because it's closed back so don't kacau my gf sleeping, unlike the AD700. The M50 intially clamps really tight until the headband has been loosen during usage. I would still need to remove it for awhile after an hour or so because it gets abit warm. I hear this can reduced by sanitary covers but I have not tried it personally.