How well does open air headphones sound carry?

[Scouzer]

I'm considering buying a pair of Sennheiser HD 570's. However, part of the point is that I could listen to my music without disrupting people upstairs.

I realize sound is not insulated with these headphones, so how well would one be able to hear the headphones from upstairs? Or does the sound not really carry?

 

[0roo0roo]

oh no, not that far, they just sound like headphones that aren't worn really.... if you could hear em through a floor.. you'd be deaf

 

[screw3d]

I am not sure for the Senn HD570s.. but I'm pretty sure people upstairs won't hear it. The sound would probably carry for maybe 10 feet or so at very high volumes..

 

[0roo0roo]

how much you paying for the 570's? should go for 590

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
how much you paying for the 570's? should go for 590

About $100 CDN

They go for $200 CDN locally, so...

590's seem fairly rare, and $210 CDN roughly on Ebay...unless you can point me somewhere for cheaper?

 

[0roo0roo]

nope... but i was just making sure you weren't paying 590 prices for a 570. i've seen 570's go for almost 590 prices at places like the goodguys and stuff... rather disgusting overpricing. but at half the price...your paying the right amount.

 

[0roo0roo]

and yea, about 10 feet, or enough to bother someone next to you on a bus. or well in any public enclosed place, cuz even if they can't hear it loud, they hear tinny treble noises that annoy from say 15 feet i guess if the rooms quiet.

 

[Scouzer]

I just bought the 570's, thanks

I'm not an audiophile and decided the 590's would be overkill.

 

[amgkid]

i got the 570s and they can definitely get loud. as far as being annoying to other people, it's really the same as closed headphones when you hang them around your neck. good choice btw, i love mine :beer:

 

[Scouzer]

Well, lets hope they are better than my 15 year old JVC HA-D500's. They are my dad's from back in the 80s...and out of morbid curiousity I looked up the model name on Google...and they seem to be used in some professional music studios

 

[Scouzer]

So after an Ebay near-fiasco, I finally got these headphones yesterday.

Problem is...if I wear them at my desired setting for over an hour, I start to get extremely tired and feel poorly. I take them off and after 5 minutes I'm back awake. I'm confident the padding is pinching veins to my head, cutting off circulation.

 

[Pepsi90919]

you just called me ugly so i'm not offering any advice.

 

[TechnoKid]

590 aren't nearly as well regarded as the 580s. the 580 have the same drivers as the 600 supposedly, just in a different shell. I'm not so familiar on the 570, but if the price was close to the 580, then I'd get the 580. A good headphone amp would also be nice so you could fully utilize the 580.

 

[thomsbrain]

the noise will be similar to normal headphones when not worn, as others have mentioned.

the 580's do have the same drivers as the 600's, but the difference is in the 600 they are a matched pair, chosen to provide similar acoustic fingerprints. in the 580's you just get any random two out of the barrel, so to speak (but oh what a barrel it is). I have the 580's and they are phenomenal, even without an amp.