Shure SRH940

It's no secret that many brands take a different approach when designing studio headphones and regular models for listening to music. In the first case, the model must meet a number of requirements (moderately flat frequency response, detail and dynamics of sound, durability of the structure), and it will be judged by professionals. In the second case, it is not necessary to match something; bright packaging and advertising with Cristiano Ronaldo or Dr. Dre. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that many music lovers buy studio headphones in pair with a hi-fi player.

A great example of this is the SRH940 over-ear headphones from the American brand Shure.

Studio quality sound

And it is precisely this “studio-ness” of theirs that is indicated by numerous reviews on foreign and east european forums and music parties: the sound is extremely detailed, with an excellent balance between the heaviness of the bass and the lightness of the high frequencies. Everything sounds exactly as the sound engineer who mixed the album intended, and not the Beats engineers, who raised the peak around 100 Hz by 5 – 6 dB, just to make the bass pump even in the subway. Most of all we liked their, if you will, "musicality". The Shure SRH940 makes you want to listen to music again and again, they do not tyre you with dryness or unnecessary analytics, like many other studio headphones.

In general, the last paragraph in itself is a serious bid to buy. But do not rush, there is another side of the coin. Shure screwed up with the design, which turned their lifespan into a rather expensive lottery. For some users, they work without problems for 2-3 years, for others, plastic arms crack after six months of operation. Considering how convenient the design turned out, this becomes doubly insulting. How can one not recall the story of the recent Focal Listen Pro, which also played at the level of headphones with twice the price tag, but could fail after a year or two of use?