There’s something fun about discovering a good-sounding pair of cheap headphones. It’s really satisfying to pick up a pair of $30 headphones and get much of the musical satisfaction you get from a $300 pair of cans.
That’s probably why the Koss KPH30iK are so popular. For $29.99, you get a nice engaging headphone with a big, open sound and decent detail.
Today I’m looking at another inexpensive headphone marketed towards DJs, Creators, and Audiophiles. It’s called the OneOdio Pro-50 Studio, and it retails for just $49.99 on Amazon.
Disclaimer: The Pro-50 Studio was sent to us from OneOdio in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. They do not have to be returned.
It’s a full-sized pair of over-ear cans with the classic studio/DJ headphone design made popular by Sony and Audio-Technica back in the day. It has stylish touches like the chrome around the earcups and the red stitching around the earpads.
There are also cool rubberized surfaces on the outside of the earcups that look like records. I dig the look, and I can definitely see a DJ rocking them at a club.
As OneOdio’s wired flagship, the Pro-50 Studio is Hi-Res certified and has upgraded 50mm drivers designed for a quote “accurate sound with a detailed high-end and well-tuned mid-range, plus a clear low-end with a slight boost.”
The build is pretty lightweight, but overall they seem pretty sturdy compared to other headphones in this price range. I wouldn’t recommend tossing them around, though.
As far as wearing comfort is concerned, the pillowy protein leather earpads and padding at the top of the headband makes them pretty nice to wear, especially since the clamping force is pretty low.
With the thick earpads around my ears, they did block out a fair amount of noise, albeit nowhere near what a pair of Active Noise Cancelling headphones would. But that’s to be expected.
The cups swivel 90 deg so you can move them away from your ears, a common feature that DJs use to hear the outside world. The earcups also fold up for easier storage.
As far as accessories go, you get two cables, one coiled 3.5mm to ¼” cable for connection to a DJ mixer and a 3.5mm to 3.5mm straight cable (with a mic) that you can use with portable devices. Both are on the thin side. You also get a plastic carrying pouch.
Since the headphone has both ¼” and 3.5mm connectors, you can use both cables simultaneously and listen to two sources at the same time. I’m not 100% sure why you would do that, but hey, it still sounds pretty cool.
The two connectors also allow you to share music with another person by plugging another headphone into the second jack. That’s not something I would be interested in, but again, it seems like a pretty cool feature.
I tried it out, and I was able to get nice volume and good sound quality on the second pair of headphones I connected. So the feature works well if that’s something you’re interested in.
Listening to the OneOdio Pro-50 Studio
So for my sound tests, I hooked up the Pro-50 Studio to my LG V60 smartphone with the ESS hi-fi Quad DAC engaged. I used the mobile microphone cable connected to the 3.5mm side of the headphones.
For my music selections, I played a bunch of tracks from the “Audiophile 101-MQA Masters Edtion” playlist via the Tidal App.
According to the company, these headphones are balanced with a detailed high-end and accurate midrange. The low-end is described as deep with a slight boost.
I don’t know about balanced, but they do have decent detail in the highs, and the mids, while recessed, are more accurate than some other headphones I have heard at this price. I would say the low-end is definitely deep, but there is a midbass elevation that I would call more than slight.
The sound actually reminds me of Beyerdynamic headphones with their peak in the mid to lower treble, dip in the midrange, then a bass boost around 200hz somewhere. It results in a somewhat crisp sound, punctuated by an elevated yet tight bass.
That’s probably why the Koss KPH30iK are so popular. For $29.99, you get a nice engaging headphone with a big, open sound and decent detail.
Today I’m looking at another inexpensive headphone marketed towards DJs, Creators, and Audiophiles. It’s called the OneOdio Pro-50 Studio, and it retails for just $49.99 on Amazon.
Disclaimer: The Pro-50 Studio was sent to us from OneOdio in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. They do not have to be returned.
It’s a full-sized pair of over-ear cans with the classic studio/DJ headphone design made popular by Sony and Audio-Technica back in the day. It has stylish touches like the chrome around the earcups and the red stitching around the earpads.
There are also cool rubberized surfaces on the outside of the earcups that look like records. I dig the look, and I can definitely see a DJ rocking them at a club.
As OneOdio’s wired flagship, the Pro-50 Studio is Hi-Res certified and has upgraded 50mm drivers designed for a quote “accurate sound with a detailed high-end and well-tuned mid-range, plus a clear low-end with a slight boost.”
The build is pretty lightweight, but overall they seem pretty sturdy compared to other headphones in this price range. I wouldn’t recommend tossing them around, though.
As far as wearing comfort is concerned, the pillowy protein leather earpads and padding at the top of the headband makes them pretty nice to wear, especially since the clamping force is pretty low.
With the thick earpads around my ears, they did block out a fair amount of noise, albeit nowhere near what a pair of Active Noise Cancelling headphones would. But that’s to be expected.
The cups swivel 90 deg so you can move them away from your ears, a common feature that DJs use to hear the outside world. The earcups also fold up for easier storage.
As far as accessories go, you get two cables, one coiled 3.5mm to ¼” cable for connection to a DJ mixer and a 3.5mm to 3.5mm straight cable (with a mic) that you can use with portable devices. Both are on the thin side. You also get a plastic carrying pouch.
Since the headphone has both ¼” and 3.5mm connectors, you can use both cables simultaneously and listen to two sources at the same time. I’m not 100% sure why you would do that, but hey, it still sounds pretty cool.
The two connectors also allow you to share music with another person by plugging another headphone into the second jack. That’s not something I would be interested in, but again, it seems like a pretty cool feature.
I tried it out, and I was able to get nice volume and good sound quality on the second pair of headphones I connected. So the feature works well if that’s something you’re interested in.
Listening to the OneOdio Pro-50 Studio
So for my sound tests, I hooked up the Pro-50 Studio to my LG V60 smartphone with the ESS hi-fi Quad DAC engaged. I used the mobile microphone cable connected to the 3.5mm side of the headphones.
For my music selections, I played a bunch of tracks from the “Audiophile 101-MQA Masters Edtion” playlist via the Tidal App.
According to the company, these headphones are balanced with a detailed high-end and accurate midrange. The low-end is described as deep with a slight boost.
I don’t know about balanced, but they do have decent detail in the highs, and the mids, while recessed, are more accurate than some other headphones I have heard at this price. I would say the low-end is definitely deep, but there is a midbass elevation that I would call more than slight.
The sound actually reminds me of Beyerdynamic headphones with their peak in the mid to lower treble, dip in the midrange, then a bass boost around 200hz somewhere. It results in a somewhat crisp sound, punctuated by an elevated yet tight bass.
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