Studio Headphones

While your HiFi headphones sound great for listening to produced music, they don't offer a true reproduction of the audio. Things like boosted bass and mid frequencies help make mastered music sound bigger, but this can be detrimental to your recording process. When monitoring or mixing music as part of a production, it is important to have an uncoloured representation of your recording as you may only realise it doesn't actually sound how you want it once listen back on speakers.

Of course, many audiophiles and record collectors use studio headphones when listening to music as they offer the truest representation of the recording.