Vic Firth SIH2 Reviews

Great protection and decent sound

The protection is a must and this beats using earplugs underneath builders noise isolators or something similar. This product is really a no-brainer for anyone who wants to hear audio during a rehearsal or recording.

In High CP rate

the sound quality and the sound isolation are good, very kind of tight, when wearing around two hour, my head started feel a bit uncomfortable, but over all are very good !!!

Excellent product

For many years, I had been using in-ears and on top of them ear protectors (like the ones you'd use for shooting). It was very effective in terms of ear protection, but that was the only positive thing. The solution was not very comfortable and the sound that reached the ear was very "distorted", as the muffling absorbed some of the desirable frequencies from the drums.

The Vic Firth headphones are equally as effective for sound protection, but on top of that they are very comfortable and the eventual sound that reaches your ear is well balanced. Moreover, the sound quality of the headphones is above average and could very well be used as an ordinary pair of headphones.

Very happy with the purchase!

Best headphones ever

If you are looking for drum headphones .... You couldn't fail with this product. ITS UNBELIVEBLE !

Trust me . One of the kind.

Bad sound, discomfortable to wear and handle.

Looking for affordable monitoring headphones ("cans") for studio tracking, I compared Superlux HD660, Superlux HD665, t.bone HD 990D, Vic Firth SiH2 and Beyerdynamic DT-770M to each other and to my DT-770 pro 80. I know, not a really fair reference, but my idea was to seek for a series of cans that would not cost more, preferably less than my DT-770 and still would have proper, useful sound quality. From the models selected, you can guess that acoustic isolation was also a desirable feature, to prevent the sound from the cans bleeding into e.g. a singer's mic and thus saving me time cleaning up tracks from this bleed. That is why I also searched among headphones dedicated to drummers. I will review all of the models mentioned, each in their own product page. Here we go for the Vic Firth SiH2.

Before I could even listen to it's sound, I had trouble unfolding it open and adjust it to fit to my head. The relatively thin metal wire that connects the ear shells to the head strap to me has a tendency to get worn out and over bent soon. Having succeeded to put the cans on my head, the shells felt a little small to be "over ear", they rather tended to be "on ear", and the padding was so thin that I felt the foam on the driver touch the skin of my ear. Acoustic isolation t.m.o. was not better than my DT-770 pro or good old Sennheiser HD 250 linear II. And then it's sound: very dull in all ranges of the spectrum, as if I was lying on my bed and listening to a speaker under my pillow! Definitely not my choice!

I can hear any music very clearly from my computer while playing drums really loudly, without needing more than 20 % volume on my computer. Also perfect for listening to music in a loud environment without having to increase the volume a lot to not be disturbed (by people talking, train noises, etc.) Those headphones are a bit tight on the head but I found it rather easy to get used to.

Great for recording, practicing or jamming.

Great for drumming.

Great sound isolation.

Wonderful sound quality and it's comfortable.

Amazing overall for the price.

Amazing for drummers

Have been using these for the last few months and i was pleasantly surprise by the quality of this product. Have been using them in reahersals, just for isolation and they work perfectly.

The sound is amazing. When listening to music, i can hear every layer of the song independently.

Couldn't wish for much more

The most closed headphones ever!

The main reason I bought SIH2 is an earprotection plus monitoring and it was the best choice for me. Once it came to me I immediately tried them in a drum practice session and I no longer needed to play softer in order to hear backing track or metronome like I had to do with my previous headphones... I was playing full power at last!!:)

Once I took them on rehearsal (used as "earplugs") it got even better. Despite the fact that SIH2 are extremely closed I was in total balance with others.

Also I tried them in mixing and well it's not a great studio headphones yet extremely useful for bass check.

One real disadvantage for me is that these headphones are really tight on my head and after an hour of use they get a bit annoying.

Overall I am satisfied with SIH2 and would advise them to all musicians (especially drummers) since its the most closed headphones I've ever tried. However, you should try them on before buying to see how tight they are on your head.

Nice Headphones.

I bought these to use for teaching. Overall they are good, the only problem I have with them is that the headphones have perhaps too much "pressure" on the ears so playing for a long time can hurt a bit.

Still a good update from the earlier version.

Let's just say that they are good for tracking drums, but not much else. I find that they squeeze too hard and I need to take them of periodically, and the color of the sound is very high-mid heavy and fatiguing. Good if you really need to hear the click over everything else, but not very pleasant otherwise. The sound reduction is suprisingly not very muffling, but I'd like to have just a little more reduction, but it may also be that I'm used to using in-ears and protection simultaneously.

Very happy

I've been using these headphones for a few days now and very happy with them. They are comfortable with good quality sound and they block out other noise. I would recommend them for drumming.