Hi guys, I received some recommendations from the "recommendation thread" and I have made some research myself. I am now torn between AT M30/35, T500 and AD300 so I now look here for tips to help me decide.

My main usage of the headphones will be mainly music and movies with little gaming. (I saw some old replies here in LYN mentioning such usages are more suitable with AD300 instead of monitoring series like M30). I also wish to have my headphone to produce crisp detailed sound and provide adequate noise isolation.

Thanks in advance all.

Well I do require adequate noise isolation I guess as my surroundings can get noisy at times.

And thanks joshuachew for the kind response, would you kindly shed some light on newbies like me why M30 is better as I have read some great reviews on both T500 and AD300 as well.

The thing is, I simply don't enjoy the idea of pumping up the volume just to cover up the surrounding noises, wouldn't this impact one's hearing in the long run?

Thanks for all the tips guys. siles1991 was right in a way that this is actually my first purchase of a "slightly" expensive headphone as over the years I've been using those unbranded cans.

Anyway I do realize that AD300, being an open can itself does leak sound. I was just hoping it to provide at least some amount of noise isolation as I read from some reviews that it excels over T500 and M35, losing out only on bass which I don't really need btw.

My mistake, I should've made my point clear in the previous post. I meant I read from some reviews AD300 excels over T500 and M35 in terms of sound quality, such as more crisp/detailed sound and wider/better sound stage.

I guess I was just hoping for a "noise isolation" version of AD300 or hoping for someone to tell me that AD300 still isolate sound adequately despite its "open can" nature where obviously wasn't the case here.

And since y'all are saying AD300 is REALLY bad on noise isolation, I think I have no choice but to go with M35. Thanks again guys.

This post has been edited by Steven7: May 23 2013, 10:00 PM