comfort, sound quality and build quality are what i look for in studio headphones
today i'm going to do an audio technica ath m50x review to see how these studio headphones
score in those categories i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's
my goal to help you conquer the tech so you can unleash your creativity and first i want
to give a big thank you to sweetwater they're the ones who sent me these headphones to review
and that's really cool because i've been eyeing these up for a while and now i actually get to
test them out so thank you so much sweetwater and at the time of recording this they're going for
149 over on sweetwater i'll include a link down in the description so you can head over there
get some more information check out some other reviews and sweetwater actually makes it pretty
easy to purchase with their financing options as well the audio technica ath m50x headphones are
considered to be professional studio monitoring headphones but they're also great for streamers
and gamers or just listening to music in general now the first thing i want to check out is the
comfort level because i sit with my headphones on for hours at a time almost every single day so
i need my headphones to be very comfortable so they're actually extremely lightweight which is
really nice so they're not going to weigh your head down the band has a nice padding to it so
it feels nice on the top of your head even with the hat on it actually feels pretty nice the cups
they're nice and padded and it's i'm pretty sure this is like a fake leather material but it feels
nice and soft but one thing to keep in mind with these fake leather or even leather style
ear cups is they can make your ears or right where around where they touch it can make them sweat
i didn't really notice this i wore them for a few hours yesterday before i did this review just to
try them out to make sure that they were comfortable and they are comfortable and i
didn't really notice the sweating too much as i have with other headphones in the past so that's
not really a big deal here the ear cups themselves are a little snug they're not too snug but
if you do have bigger ears they might be a little small for your ears but i think you can actually
get replacement ear cups that are slightly bigger so that might be something that you would consider
but overall these are really nice comfortable headphones i could be very happy wearing these in
the studio for hours at a time so now let's talk about the audio quality of the audio technica ath
m50x headphones and when i first put them on the first thing i did was load up one of my mixes
just to hear how it sounded compared to my other headphones that i use and i was extremely blown
away by how these made my voice sound my voice really popped out in the mix and there seemed
to be some hyped low end in there as well which kind of could be a bad thing because it might
make your mix sound a little too good and you want to make sure that you reference your mixes
on other sources just to make sure because these sound really nice and they're 38 ohms
so it doesn't take a lot of power to run these things you could plug them into your iphone or
your android phone whatever and they'll be easily powered by those devices so you can get great
clarity even on smaller devices when you're not in the studio so after listening my mixes through
these headphones and hearing how great it made my mixes sound seriously i hope all of my listeners
listen with these headphones on but i decided to look up a frequency reference graph just to see
what these headphones were all about when it came to a frequency chart after looking at the
frequency response graph for these what i was hearing makes sense because there's a bump in
the lows and then there's a small bump in the mids and a bigger bump in the high mids and low
highs so this is why the bass sounded hyped and my vocals really popped out and that's something
that you'll want to keep in mind if you're going to be using these for mixing if you're looking for
a pair of headphones for in the studio and also to take with you on the go maybe listening to music
while you're on the go then the audio technica ath m50x might be the pair of headphones for you as
they sound great they can be powered by smaller devices and in the studio you can
get some great mixes out of them as long as you know the frequencies that these are
hyping but that can be said with any pair of studio headphones you need to get to know them
to get more accurate mixes next let's look at the build quality they're pretty much entirely made
out of plastic except for the inner band here is metal and then you have this leather type material
on the band and on the ear cups but everything else is pretty much plastic however it feels like
a stronger plastic so it doesn't feel like these are going to break anytime soon and with just
regular wearing and on-the-go use you shouldn't have a problem with these things breaking on you
they feel very solid another cool thing is the ear cups they swivel both ways 90 degrees and you can
also fold them up nicely like this and you can put them in the carrying case that it includes
which is right here they'll fit nicely in that carrying case and speaking of the carrying case
and being able to fold these up nicely another cool feature is you're able to take this cable out
fairly easily and then it makes it easier to fold these up and put in the bag and you can
put the cable in the bag separately if you want or use the smaller size cable while you're on
the go so like i said this cable comes out of there and it has this cool locking feature so
you put it in there you twist and it gets locked in there it's not coming out on you at all so
you don't need to worry if you're walking down the street or maybe you're in the studio and you're
worried about this coming out it's not coming out but if you needed to replace this cable
you're going to have to replace it with an audio technica cable that has that locking feature on it
and speaking of cables it includes three different ones you get the coiled cable which can go up to
three meters you get a straight cable that's also three meters and both of those cables will accept
the quarter inch adapter that's included then you also get this shorter cable that's more geared
for listening on the go and it doesn't have the threads for that quarter inch adapter but in terms
of cable quality these are really nice thick cables so i think they'll last quite a while
i'm not too concerned with the cable quality here so my overall thoughts on build quality for the
audio technica ath m50x are they are plastic but it's a harder plastic and they feel like they're a
solid headphone now the last thing i want to talk about with these headphones is their overall style
and looks these look very sleek and if you were to be walking around town with these on or on the bus
or whatever these look really nice they're not bulky or anything they have a very cool look to
them or if you're a streamer or gamer and you're wearing these on camera they look really cool well
i probably don't look cool with them on but i'm sure somebody who is cool will look very cool
with these things on while on camera so overall am i happy with the audio technica ath m50x
headphones absolutely they give me another option for monitoring my mixes with some great clarity
and they also look cool too now if you want to check out some other audio tech gear reviews
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