RØDENTH-100 Professional Over-ear Headphones For Content Creation, Music Production, Mixing and Audio Editing, Podcasting, Location Recording (Black)

Marvellous headphones. Noise cancelling. Adjustable and lockable to your head size so no annoying re adjusting or slipping. Left or right port for cable. Lightweight. Sound quality as good as the equipment they're played through. Very impressed.

Notwithstanding the fact the ear cup brackets/hinges to the headband are known to be quite frail, this set of headphones is superb. Rode have obviously worked extremely hard to engineer these to deliver a neutral and very detailed sound. You'll want to listen to all your favourite tracks to discover what you've been missing if you've been listening to them with anything else. The treble response is pristine, but can also sound a bit much if the source material hasn't been equalised correctly or there's upper-register distortion. Listening to "stripped" by Depeche Mode is hard with these headphones, as Dave Gahan's voice sounds rather harsh at times. But on 99.9% of the music I do listen to, whilst these headphones really do bring out the high-end detail, they were incredibly listenable and the extra detail is really appreciated. Nor can you say these sound too treble-orientated. You simply can't deny the bass response. Listen to the opening drum beats of Lorde's Royals at high volume, and you get an ear-drum (and ear) vibrating bass with huge weight behind it, yet still tightly controlled. You come away from trying these with a huge appreciation for what Rode has achieved. They're first attempt at reversing the relationship between air molecule and electron movement is a resounding success and they're going the right way about gaining a world-wide reputation for headphones as they currently have for microphones. One note. The lead supplied with the phones does have one end specifically designed to plug into the headphones themselves, even though both ends are 3.5mm jacks. This is because one end has a more plastic body with a twist-lock mechanism moulded into it, to stop it coming out of the headphones. If you fit the wrong end of the lead to headphones, or don't get the twist lock to engage, you'll get a horrible sound through these as the connector isn't making all the connections it should. Oh, and be careful with how you handle these headphones taking them on and off your head and storing them, if you want the hinges to last.I'd like to add that 8 months down the line, I'm as pleased with my NTH-100s as I was when I first got them. No hinge trauma! I've had a chance to compare these to the Sony 7506/1 professional studio headphones, which is another popular choice amongst buyers. I previously mentioned the Rode headphones may be a little too bright and could make some source material sound a little harsh at high listening levels. I can tell you that at those scratchy 2kHz - 4kHz frequencies, the Sony 7506 sound harder than the Rode NTH-100, but then potentially don't have quite as much very high frequency detail as the Rode headphones. There also seems to be a touch more low/weighty bass response compared to the Rode units. My judgement now is that the Rode headphones definitely strike a more listenable balance, even up to high listening levels. The 7506 could potentially be said to sound a little "peaky" at extreme lows and in the 2-4kHz range, and lacking in extreme HF. If I had to choose, I'd still pick the Rode as fantastic neutral sounding headphones and definitely a product that offers a sound quality which belies their price. Buy the Rode NTH-100 as they are most listenable "reference" headphones you'll ever need.

These headphones were great for the 3 weeks that they were actually usable.About the sound quality you would expect from headphones in this price range that aren't massively price hiked for a fashion name, and very comfortable to wear.Unfortunately with light (1-2 hours) daily use a small part of plastic shattered along moulding lines in the regular process of taking the headphones off, in just over 3 weeks since purchase.The entire construction of the headphones is metal EXCEPT for the tension locks that hold the earcups at their set position, a part which you would expect to experience some degree of pressure and tension, which are made from what feels like cheap recycled plastic, I've had studier feeling parts come off my 3d printer!I'm unfortunately not the only user that has experienced this issue as you can see from images on reviews, mine has broken in an absolutely identical fashion. A bit of googling about this specific issue produces more than a few results that were not initially visible when just searching for the product.As far as I can tell this seems to be a manufacturing flaw, you can see clear lines in the moulding of the plastic that the part seems to have exactly split down. It could be that lots are like this, could be a one off batch, who knows. Do yourself a favour and take a look at one of the many competitors in a similar price range with good reviews since you may be dropping 130 quid for something that will last you less than a month.I'll update this review when I hear back from the seller and/or the manufacturer regarding RMA.