Headphones
Sennheiser HD 212 Pro
Product Features:
- Clear and emphatic bass, with good balance through mids and highs.
- A solid offering for a budget headphone.
- Sealed design reduces unwanted outside noise.
- Tasty styling and solid build quality from a world-class maker.
- 2 year warranty
What's In The Box:
- 1/4" adaptor
Applications:
In years past, finding a halfway decent-sounding, sealed-back, portable/mobile-use headphone was rather difficult. We now find ourselves in the midst of an almost over-abundance of them, including the Sennheiser HD 212 Pro. These headphones seem to strike an acceptable compromise between fair price, good sound, quality build, wearing comfort, and ambient noise isolation factor. Though they have a LOT of bass, their overall musical presentation is warm and tonally smooth with a well-balanced, present midrange. The upper highs do tend to be a bit recessed, however, which is quite typical for sealed headphones at the lower pricepoints. Still, a pretty good, ergonomically lightweight, portable closed-back headphone at a nice and reasonable price.
The HD 212 Pro use a sealed [closed-back], almost-circumaural mid-sized earcup design. They have circular pleather-padded earcups that nearly surround the ears, but are not quite large enough to prevent the flat part of the earpads from resting gently against the ouside edge of the earlobes. The result is a set of headphones that have the lightweight and small ergonomics of a supra-aural design, but retain the secure fit and comfort of a larger circumaural headphone model.
The HD 212 Pro are a sort of star-trek silver in color and use a VERY lightweight, simple three-piece design consisting of the two earpieces and the headband. The earpieces attach via small, ball-like protrusions that ride in a groove in the headband; the detents in this groove allow you to adjust the fit. This arrangement also allows you to un-snap the earpieces from the headband for ease of storage, although too much disassembly could cause premature wear on the ball joint, permanently ruining the attachment point. The headphone cable is a three meter long "Y"-type, which attaches to the bottom of both earpieces via 2.5mm mono plugs whose jacks fit tightly into a hole in each earpiece--a nice bit of engineering for a fairly difficult widget. At the other end, the cable is terminated with a 1/8" [3.5mm] mini-plug. A 1/8" to 1/4" adapter is included in the package.
Specifications:
- Sensitivity: 112 dB/V
- Cord Type: Straight Y
- Coupler Size: Medium
- Microphone: No
- Cord Length: 10 ft. (3 m)
- Weight: 6.7
- Detachable Cable: Yes
- Driver Type: Dynamic
- Warranty: 2 Years
- Connector Type: 1/8"
- Isolation: -8dB ~ -10dB
- Ear Coupler Type: Earpad
- Impedance @ 1kHz: 32
- Manufacturer Warranty: 2 Years
- Wireless: No
- Headphone Type: Earpad
- Noise Cancelling: No
- Acoustic Seal: Closed
Additional Resources:
- Manufacturer's Website
- http://www.sennheiserusa.com/
- Product Manuals
- HD 212 Pro
Average Rating
Posted by PScal from Little Rock, AR on 2010-02-08
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: Rugged, good bass
Cons: Unfomfortable for extended listening
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Posted by derek800 from Macomb, MI on 2010-01-12
Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: Monster bass, very comfortable, good isolation
Cons: Clamping force on the head if not stretched out
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