Best headphones for photographers, video editors & podcasters
For photographers: if you shoot video, the headphone that matters is a wired, closed-back monitor plugged into the camera's headphone jack. Camera jacks are wired 3.5 mm, and closed backs keep out the room so you hear wind, clipping and a dead lav before you lose the take. The Sony MDR-7506 and Audio-Technica ATH-M50x are the standard picks below. For long editing sessions with no recording, a noise-cancelling pair like the Sony WH-1000XM5 is the comfortable choice.
You can't fix what you can't hear. Closed-back studio monitors reveal the plosives, mumbles, and room noise you need to catch when recording and correcting transcripts; noise-cancelling pairs keep you focused through a long editing session. Ranked by our editorial score for detail and isolation.
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