ATH-M50X : Great for studio ant unbeatable on field.

I have two pairs of the older brothers (ATH-M50) of these headphones. Built quality is very good and they have withstand three years of hard work in the live audio field and quite many studio sessions. I should buy new ear pads soon, as they have worn out, but other than that they still look and sound as they were new. I have used several other headphones, for example Sony MDR7506 which are a broadcast standard, but ATH-M50 will beat them easily with built quality and sound.

But when I come back to the new sibling ATH-M50 X then this model has quite an advantage from the older model... There are two older models, one is with coiled cable and the other with 3m straight cable. Bot are quite nasty, one is messy and the other is too long and always in a way if you are working behind your mixer. The new ATH-M50 has three cables for every situation: 1,2 m coiled cable, 1,2 m and 3m straight cable. So you can choose whatever you like.

It is important to mention that they are quite comfortable to use for long mixing sessions as they do not give too much pressure to the head and ears.