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Denon AH-D510R Headphones Review

2011-01-12
hey guys so today I'm here was a review of the Denon a HD 510 are over the ear headphones I'm so I've had these for a little while now I actually took them to Las Vegas to kind of test them out you know I listen to all kinds of different genres of music I listen to them on the plane back and forth kind of test the noise quality of you know how it keeps out all the background noise as well I also use these as my main aging headphones while I was over there so to use but for all for anything all of my videos so over I'm ready to go ahead and give you guys my full review tell you what I like and what I didn't like and whether I think you should purchase these or not um so as with any headphone review we've got to start out with the sound quality itself pretty much the most important in my opinion the most important thing when you're buying headphones is whether they sound good I mean why would you ever buy headphones if a sound bad on this front um mostly good mostly good it's they're not perfect they're not going to be amazing but for the $1 price point I'd say that they get I get I give them a pass so the base and the base is a little bit low and I will say that but overall everything else sounds pretty decent the mids really quite good now it can do keep in mind this is compared to other headphones in the you know the hon dollar price point I mean don't go comparing these two you know some really expensive Sennheiser's or beads or anything like that but when you take a look at headphones and roughly this price range they do do pretty well so like I said they're a little lacking in bass which is kind of a disappointment considering that most over your headphones do kind of excel at bass but there's still a reasonable amount the treble and the highs are acceptable again it not amazing but pretty good and the mids are above average I would say now for what this kind of means fret in practical terms and I found that metal if you kind of listen to a lot of techno or hip hop on these aren't going to be the greatest now do keep minded that I'm not trying to set it say I'm bad or anything like that it's just that they are not really suited for you know high bass you know that kind of song they just follow flat otherwise though most other genres of music they do sound really quite respectable you know they have nice volume they're pretty clear they're actually really quite clear you know there's not a whole lot of mightiness in the song so overall with the sound quality goes I do give the dens the girls are pretty good on that front now it's going to move on to the build quality now this is the point where the reviews gonna take a little bit of a bad turn as I really am NOT a fan of the build quality of these headphones so as you guys can see here they are mate well hopefully you can see that they are made of plastic now there's nothing particularly wrong with this however they just kind of feel cheap so you know it's kind of hard to say I mean you know I haven't had any issues with them they haven't broken or anything like that but I've had them for you know a couple of months or anything of any kind of long term so it's kind of hard to say how they will hold up over the long run they they just kind of feel a little bit cheap you know they're all pretty much entirely made of plastic now it does have a nice kind of padding up top which kind of does help keep it comfortable and I will say that these are very comfortable you're probably the only other headphones I've worn that are more comfortable than these are the beats by Dredd studios and those are probably something those are just amazing so as far as comfort goes you wear these for a long time no issues and they do have some pretty nice padding in the cups it's a little bit firm but once you use them for a little while you get used to it real fast and once I can kind of get broken in a little bit and you don't have any issues there so again like I said the build quality is not fantastic it just they just kind of feel cheap on the other hand though on the plus side is that they do they are very light so I don't actually know the exact weight or anything like that but I can tell you these are pretty lightweight I mean you're not gonna really have any complaints about that you know you're tossing a bag or even around your neck or whatever you're really not gonna notice and they are super lightweight so I guess it's a decent trade-off but personally out preferred they made it a little bit nicer materials maybe you know a different kind of plastic or something just to kind of give it a more of a premium feel because of course these are $100 headphone plug one good feature about these headphones is that they do have controls for your iPod or your iPhone so as you can see here you do have your plus and minus you going to adjust your volume as well as you can go ahead and skip your songs and if you flip it over on the back here you'll be able to see it does have a small microphone port you can go ahead and you know use voice control or just use it as you know just a general microphone to report things now I should has really impressed with the microphone it's surprisingly really good quality the buttons are pretty generic I mean there's nothing they're not bad they're not good they're just you know they work pretty functional but there's nothing really particularly amazing about them now the cable is kind of prone to getting all you know wadded up and it's kind of tangled which again not a lot of the cables on headphones these days are getting thicker however they do it don't ask me but better you're getting where you know you don't have to worry about them getting tangled and this is about a three-foot cable so it's the course deciding to get you know extremely tangle it's not gonna be a big deal you see here you can get it wadded up and it will get tangled pretty quickly I will go ahead and take a look at the end itself it's decent there's not a whole lot to say about it it will fit and you know pretty much any ipod iphone you know anything really device with a three-and-a-half millimeter headset jack it's a little bit big and bulky but again not a huge deal in my opinion one so overall I had kind of mixed feelings about these headphones on one hand the audio quality is really pretty good now for the price I don't have any issues with the audio quality I think it sounds pretty good you know you're not gonna like again I don't want to say that it's gonna be amazing I mean for the same price you probably get some Sennheiser's which will sound a little bit better but overall I mean there's really not a whole point about the audio quality nice if I had more bass but not really a big deal it's not like you know the songs are with a lot of bass or I'm you know just they just you can't listen to him or anything like that she says they're a little bit lacking in that area now my major problem with these is the build quality now I just really just have a hard time paying $100 for headphones like this and they really feel like much more like 30 maybe $40 headphones and they just feel really pretty cheap now whether this could actually be an issue later on if they're gonna break or anything like that it's kind of hard to say they don't feel like they're going to you know like you know you can crush them or anything like that but I'm just saying that they don't feel very very high quality same goes for the cable you know just it just kind of seems a little bit cheap and it definitely is pretty annoying I mean I'm just enduring this review I mean I'm just looking down and the cables hurdy getting that all tangled up so overall I think these hip bones are pretty solid unfortunately I think they're just a little bit too expensive now currently these are $100 pretty much the MSRP which is $100 that's pretty much everywhere you find them I think I really can't recommend them at price now if you can find them for maybe $75 then yeah I would definitely recommend these they're pretty solid again the audio quality which is the most important thing is really pretty pretty intact and you're not gonna have really any issues with that and of course I could definitely live with the build quality so you can find these for maybe $75 or perhaps the price goes down when pick these up otherwise you might want to pass they're just not quite the up to the build quality that you expect for this kind of level of headphones anyway guys I do want to give a big thanks to Dan for sending these out to me for free to review for you all anyway guys thanks for what
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