Headphones

[Harrison]

Your Dell? That's a shame.

[Stephen Coates]

Yup, the U2410. It served me well for 11 years. I had wondered about upgrading before but decided not to as it was still such a good monitor. Unfortunately the LCD panel itself got cracked in an accident .

[Harrison]

My U2711 is still my main monitor as it has such good colour accuracy for photo editing. And still great for 1440p resolution too. Plus the legacy connections come in useful.

You can still pick up a lot of u2410's secondhand. Under £60.

[Stephen Coates]

I did have a look on ebay and saw some second hand U2410s going cheap, so I might pick one up, or I might wait a bit and see about upgrading to something newer.

[Harrison]

Also consider Sharp as they have been winning awards for their monitors and being good reviews for the last few years. They do some nice 1440 and 4k resolution monitors.

[Stephen Coates]

My U2711 is still my main monitor as it has such good colour accuracy for photo editing. And still great for 1440p resolution too. Plus the legacy connections come in useful.

You can still pick up a lot of u2410's secondhand. Under £60.

I just got a used U2410 on eBay for about £45. Turns out to have a slight blemish on it but its only noticeable on really dark screens. Not bad for the price, given how much they were new. I've been using a ThinkPad with a 14" 1920x1080 screen and a 17" Trinitron on my main machine, so its nice to be able to see things again without eye strain!

[Kin Hell]

I might have an Acer Predator XB271HU for sale sometime soon if anyone might be interested. - 2560 x 1440 IPS Panel; G-Sync; 165Hz.....

[Harrison]

A long time later I finally bit the bullet and bought some high end headphones yesterday. It was Amazon Prime day and the Sennheiser Momentum 4 headphones were in the sale. The Amazon exclusive version was cheaper then the standard white or black, and are dark grey with copper accents and logo.

They arrived today and I'm not disappointed. The case is a really nice zip up hard shell with charging and 3.5mm cabled stored nicely inside. The headphones rotate so go flat in the case, meaning the whole thing is quite small when packed away.

I'm really impressed with the build quality, which is to be expected from Sennheiser. And the padding in the ear pads and headband have to be the softest and most comfortable I've ever felt, and fit prefectly over your ear.

They were really easy to pair to any Bluetooth device and I hadn't realised they have a cool feature where they detect when you put them on and instantly turn on, and turn off when you take them off. That's really cool. And the app is very useful as you can adjust the EQ a lot of you don't like the default setup.

Setup via the app was quick and the right ear touch gestures work really well. Tap to start/stop. Slide you finger up and down for volume. Pinch 2 fingers together or apart to increase and reduce noice cancelling. Swipe left our right to skip tracks. Pretty simple to use.

Sound quality is brilliant. A lot of headphones seem to be all bass and treble, and not much middle. These have a great range and really nice bass. I listened to a few music tracks and could hear things I hadn't before on headphones. And having a much more balance range means vocals are very clear and to the front. The biggest noticeable difference is on live tracks from concert recordings.

I had to test them with the greatest guitar solo of all time. The remastered 4k version of the Pink Floyd Pulse concert, with Comfortably Numb. It sounded amazing. As well as David Gilmore's solo everything was so precise and clear. Supurb.

Very happy with these. Worth every penny. And a 2 year warranty too. I am just going to keep these for indoors though and use my cheaper Sennheiser headphones when gardening or walking the dog.

Definitely going to be using these when watching films late at night to avoid the compaints from my wife when the sub normally cuts in.

[Kin Hell]

It's just over 12 months since we were talking Headphones H....

Do you mind me asking what you paid for them?

& is the noise cancelling true cancelling? - As in you can't hear anyone talking to you from the side....