Beyerdynamic DT 240 Pro - Review 2022

Studio-friendly headphones are unremarkably pretty expensive. For $99, the Beyerdynamic DT 240 Pro are a refreshingly affordable circumaural (over-the-ear) pair for musicians, podcasters, filmmakers, and anyone else who wants to monitor with accuracy. A lightweight frame makes them useful on the go, and a detachable cable adds to the value. On top of this, the headphones deliver accurate bass depth and solid clarity in the highs. Then for the start time in a while, we can add a new Editors' Choice to the budget-friendly studio headphones realm.

Blueprint

Pro audio headphones often skip stylish embellishments in favor of comfort and functioning, but Beyerdynamic manages a spare, cool wait with the matte black DT 240 Pro. The circumaural earcups, which are plastic without looking inexpensive, house dynamic drivers and exercise a solid chore of tamping downwards ambient noise too equally leaking very picayune audio, making them ideal for tracking. Their outer panels are emblazoned with the DT 240 Pro name, while the Beyerdynamic logo appears on the plastic ends to the headband.

The earpads and headband are generously padded and covered in imitation leather. They experience great and will go on to do so over long listening periods—a must for studio-oriented headphones. The included audio cablevision can exist connected to either earpiece, and the earcups themselves can hands flip away from the ear as they oft practise on DJ headphones.

The headphones ship with one removable cable—a heavy-duty, half-coiled wire with no inline remote. Nosotros don't view this as a negative, since if y'all're recording with the DT 240 Pro, an inline remote will be of piffling use, and the price is low plenty that we don't wait a 2nd cable option. The included cable is ideal for studio and recording applications—its partially coiled 49-inch design can extend upwards to roughly 10 anxiety. It terminates in a 3.5mm connection and ships with a quarter-inch adapter. The but other included accompaniment is a black drawstring protective handbag.

Performance

Nosotros tested the DT 240 Pro using an Apogee Symphony I/O as our sound source, equally well as an iPhone 6s. With both sound sources, the headphones evangelize a solid audio experience. On tracks with intense sub-bass content, like The Pocketknife's "Silent Shout," you lot get plenty of thumping bass response, but it's aught compared with headphones that deliberately boost bass dramatically. The bass response here is accurate—this track happens to pump out the sub-bass quite a chip, and the headphone'south drivers reflect that, but it never sounds over the top, nor does the balance with the highs fall apart. Too, at top, unwise listening levels, the drivers don't misconstrue, which isn't ever the case with $100 headphones on this challenging track.

Bill Callahan's "Drover," a track with far less deep bass presence in the mix, gives the states a meliorate sense of the DT 240 Pro's overall sound signature. The drums on this rails sound full and round, but not additional across their natural levels. Callahan's baritone vocals get an ideal alloy of low-mid richness and high-mid treble edge, and the guitar strums and higher register percussive hits likewise benefit from a potent loftier-mid and loftier frequency presence in the DT 240 Pro's delivery. This is a balanced, authentic sound signature—it can reproduce deep lows when they're in the mix, only it doesn't invent them.

On Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," the kick drum loop receives the ideal amount of loftier-mid presence to accentuate its attack, punching through the various layers of the mix. The sub-bass synth hits are delivered with laudable presence. On heavily bass-boosted pairs, these synth hits tin often sound overly thunderous and do boxing with the vocals. Through the DT 240 Pro, the song performances are delivered with splendid high frequency clarity and never audio threatened by the powerful low frequency content. Perhaps at that place's a smidge of added sibilance in in that location, but it's not enough to make things sound weirdly sculpted or overly brilliant. Again, this is a pretty accurate frequency response, especially for headphones in this price range.

Orchestral tracks, like the opening scene in John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, sound excellent through the DT 240 Pro. In that location'due south perhaps the slightest bit of low frequency boosting, bringing out the lower register instrumentation ever and so slightly. Simply it'south the college register brass, strings, and vocals that own the spotlight, and they're delivered with clarity and detail.

Conclusions

For quite a long while, our favorite affordable studio-friendly over-ear headphones have been the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro. They remain an excellent option, but lack the detachable cablevision provided by the Beyerdynamic DT 240 Pro. We're besides fans of the Sennheiser HD6 Mix, and consumer headphones that might as well be studio pairs, like the Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro and Sony MDR-1A, simply the prices on these models vary quite a fleck. For a sub-$100 pro audio option, the DT 240 Pro evangelize accurate, clear audio with solid bass depth in a comfortable design, earning our Editors' Pick award for upkeep-friendly professional headphones.

Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/review/18925/beyerdynamic-dt-240-pro

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