Shure SRH1440 Professional Open Back Headphones (Black)

 (3 customer reviews)

There has been a lot of interest in the SRH-1440, with questions such as "Is it that much better than the SRH-940?", or "How does it compare to the SRH-1840 when it costs only about half as much?" I've had the 1840 for a couple of months, and since I've been happy with it I wasn't thinking about the 1440 until curiosity got the best of me and I finally ordered it. Since most reviews tend to bore you with lots of detail about cords, plugs and ear cushions before they get to the sound, I'll do the sound first and then describe the physical details after that.

From the bass through the middle frequencies, the 1440 sounds pretty similar to the 1840 with very minor differences. Judging small differences is problematic, because those differences tend to move around the tone scale or even from one headphone to the other depending on the music tracks you're playing. In other words, track 'A' may have strong output at 200 hz and headphone 'A' may have some emphasis at that same...Read more

Before buying, take some time and see if suits your life style.

Open Back Headphone: Sound will leak, you can't use it in a noisy environment.
Input impudence: These are not head phones for mobile phones or laptops. You will need some decent amp to enjoy the wide open aurora.
Quality of Music: Good quality gear will make bad quality music sound worse, than the amped up in-ear head phones. Most of the low cost headphones have a U shape response. They make the high and low over power the mids, so you hear lot of thuds and screeching highs. It may sound energetic, but you are missing a lot of details. Start enjoying 192Khz or loss less music, try old SACDs, even most of the CDs are not half bad. 128Kbps MP3 and Shure doesn't get along that well.

Very light weight headphone, you can listen to music without any fatigue. It is quite portable too, comes with extra earpads, cables, travel case. There is no penny pinching here. It comes with every thing that you...Read more

This is a pretty good pair of headphones but I suggest that you get a amp/dac if you are planning to get this headphone because there isn't enough power to produce the sound that it can potentially produce with an amp/dac. These headphones sound amazing with them an amp/dac but without it, these headphones sound average. The downside to these headphones is the price, sometimes I hear some sort of buzz when I listen to music and stuff, these headphones do leak but if you don't turn up your music up like crazy than leakage isn't that bad, and these headphones are quite heavy but as long as you adjust the headband and wear it a lot, you will get use to it. For 400 dollars I expected something a bit better. These headphones feel more sturdier than the beats and bose headphones. It even comes with an extra set of cables and earpad which the bose and beats don't do. It also, comes with a 2 year warranty from the manufacture which is extremely good especially when bose and beats doesn't do...Read more