Superlux HD681EVO Semi-Open Professional Monitoring Headphones

Bought the headphones after seeing the reviews, and after carrying out extensive survey and research.I am absolutely not disappointed with the buy. In fact, it is my daily, go-to headphones for casual listening to music when doing chores about at home from amongst the numerous headphones that I have. I love listening on them so much that I often carry and use them for portable, about town use despite the bulky design and the sound leakage, being semi-open ( Point to note - the sound leakage isn't as bad as apprehended, or as much as from fully open headphones like my Massdrop Sennheiser 58X Jubilees or Hifiman 4XXs).It is light and comfortable, it has a wide open soundstage, good imaging and provides a nice, warm tone to the music. Though the build is mostly plastic, it feels and seems durable. While it doesn't quite match up to the 58X and 4XX in the quality of sound, it provides awesome music experience for its price-point, and is an unmatchable value at its price!You can't go wrong with this one!

Works well so far, great sound signature, great sound stage, great looks. It's kinda heavy on my head. The headphones come with replacement velour ear pads and 2 cables. One of them is 1m and long and the second one is 3m long. The earpads heat up fast, like really fast. The earpads aren't soft at all and were a pain in the ass to put on. That's my only complaint so far, they are amazing for the price and are working as well as advertised :).

The 5 star rating given by me is as per seeing the overall value of the product. I had been waiting for the drop in its price and just as it happened and that too to its lowest ever I had seen on an Indian e-commerce website, I pounced upon the opportunity and ordered it for just ₹2087.When I received the headphones I had to get them replaced as there was a shallow tiny hole on the neck of protruding connector. But it seems this probably is the case with all units as the replacement unit had the same tiny hole. Pictures of these headphones on internet confirm that.The deal was too good therefore I ignored the flaw and didn't return the replacement headphones. It is to be seen if I took a good decision.I had extensively researched on internet before going for these headphones and taking sound quality into account, that has paid off really well. So far these are my first (sorta)hi-fi headphones. After briefly listening to music on these headphones with their stock pads on them, I replaced stock ones with velour ones which came along with the headphones. Velour pads are much more comfortable than the stock ones. Though my ears begin to sweat pretty quickly around these days of mid summer season.I already read about its cheap build quality but it doesn't worry me as my main concern is sound quality which incredibly makes up for that.At this price point you CAN'T get as good cans as these if sound quality is your concern.The sound of these cans can not be termed as flat or neutral yet it has enough detail that one can use these cans for mixing or monitoring purpose. Sub bass and low frequencies are a bit boosted but when you hear the music you will easily feel that these cans have a very good separation of sounds which doesn't let boosted low frequencies overpower or muzzle mid frequencies despite of the fact that mids are a bit recessed on these cans. Bass is clean and not muddy or boomy. Overall sound is enjoyable and has a warmth to it without low frequencies suppressing vocals.When you spend some time with these cans you will easily notice that if a track is badly mixed or recorded it will sound bad and these cans reveal enough details to point a flaw. While well mixed and recorded tracks are a joy to listen to on these cans. Separation of voice from instruments is very good and soundstage is also good.These leak sound and let surrounding sounds come in therefore better use these cans in a quiet place.I have my cans modded which perceptibly gives a cleaner sound. I removed the felt put over driver units which resulted in better high frequency and upper mid response.For buddying music enthusiasts on a shoestring budget I guess these cans are one of the better options though not very popular.

My first audiophile headphones, i m in no way an audiophile, just a normal person who enjoy good music. First time when i listened to these, I noticed great clarity of vocals and instruments but bass was less punchy and lacking..and music was less inspiring for me...after using these for a week or so i quickly noticed good bass, and bass is still there though not overpowering like those crappy bass boosted earphones i had been using for years...i believe this is due to my ears adapting to the headphone...its definitely worth buy whether you are audiophile or normal person like me....my suggestion is that dont get uninspired because it seems to have less bass,(i guess its because we are used to hearing bassy headphones) use it for some weeks and let your ears will adapt to them and you will start to appreciate the capability of this headphone and good quality music. I picked up instruments which i never heared before...instruments sounded as it should be...those who are expecting huge boom boom bass will be dissapointed,but you can use an equalizer or buy a amp/dac with bass boost option for improving bass to an extend, it has good comfort using valour pads vs stock leather pads...leather pads will heat up your ears quickly but have slightly improved bass compared to valour....its not super comfy like high end ones but still they dont irritate, i wear these for 2-3hours with no issues...also use it in less noisy places...overall great for the price...now im starting to apreciate accurate sounding headphones like these over bass boomy headphones... in one sentence ''detailed sound with adequate bass" you cannot go wrong at this price point...