Audio-Technica ATH-M20x vs Hifiman Sundara

So all in all, at the end of the day, are these headphones worth buying? Well, for $50, I would say yes. I've bought many of these headphones for on-s...

The Sundara has been out for a while, years actually, and there was even a slight revision to it two years ago where they basically upgraded the pad. ...

* **TaoTronics TT-BH042:** Budget bluetooth headset with crappy ANC. I did like these (comfortable) but ever after hearing the Sony WF-1000XM3, this sounds like absolute rubbish.

Also these are some of the most open headphones ever. If you can hear your music someone 10 feet away can as well. As far as comfort goes they aren't the worst for me. Their pads are scratchy and slightly small, while the headband is just fine

The best headset for streaming at the budget level is the Audio-Technica ATH-M20x. These over-ear headphones have a very accurate mid-range, which ensures the accurate reproduction of vocals. They also have a decently comfortable fit that doesn't apply too much pressure on your head.

This is a planar magnetic over-ear open back headphone that comes in right at around $350. So let's take a look. This review unit was sourced through ...

The best budget-friendly headphones for DJs that we've tested are the Audio-Technica ATH-M20x. These wired over-ear headphones have a decently comfortable fit and don't clamp onto your head too tightly. They have a simple all-black design and are fairly sturdy and breathable.

Seriously? For me, however, the dealbreaker was comfort. The housings on these things are very large and the clamping force is substantial. No matter how much I adjusted them, the pads on the housings pressed hard on the back of my ears and the bottom rear of my jaw, and I found that I could wear them for much more than thirty minutes before I have to take them off. This may have to do with the fact that the ear cup housings do not rotate at all, they are fixed perpendicular to the headband, and thus there's no compensation for pressure differences from the front to the back of the ear cups against your head/ears

It is something I feel is an important consideration, particularly when you have to wear them for extended periods of time. I have a pair of noise-cancelling Bose headphones for travel, and after an hour, it feels like I've be in a vacuum with a vice on my head. That's not the case with the M20s. I sometimes wear them for hours (while writing in the studio) without even realizing I am still wearing them

I’ve had no issues with “build quality” at all. Nothing has loosened and there are no “glued on” parts falling off. The non-swiveling cans are a non-issue to me. I’m using these to listen to music without waking someone down the hall or next door, not to be a DJ in a club somewhere

I can wear them all day and neither my head, where they rest, or specially my ears, will hurt. These are a wonderful pair of headphones on this regard.

I bought these headphones in 2020 about 1 and a half years ago and I use them daily at my desktop for about 8-10 hours a day. After the first year the headband completely shattered one day out of nowhere on the left side and I discovered the band made from cheap plastic and fake metal-plastic with the exception of 2 of the 8 pieces of the band. After gluing it together with super glue and trying to work with it, it has repeatedly broken over and over with no solution and now the ear pads it comes with are COMPLETELY destroyed from just daily wear. For 300$ this is 100% not worth it over the Sennheiser competitor options