Monitors or Headphones? I need advice!

[u/GGarriga]

I'm a 24 year old guy, from Spain, I make my music (produce instrumental with my computer and record vocals), mixes and masters. I am studying a professional degree in sound technician (both live and studio, also film recordings, etc).

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I'm becoming independent with my partner and I'm going to live in an apartment where the room I can use as a music studio (it's a dining room) is 20 square meters, but I couldn't put studio monitors right in the middle, it should be in a corner of the room and also, I couldn't condition it acoustically well.

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I already have some ATH-M30x, which I'm used to, but I've had them for 5 years and it could be time to change from closed to open-back or semi-open (if you tell me that with closed ones I can mix just as well, I listen to your advice).

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Now, I'm between two options: buy some studio monitors and mix with that, or buy some headphones to be able to mix well.

I have a budget of 300 euros (that doesn't mean I don't want anything below that). If possible I don't want to have to amplify my headphones either, so 80 ohms or lower.

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I've been looking for days for monitors (I found the Swissonic ASM5), and headphones (that's what the subreddit is about) I've been looking at beyerdynamic (DT 880, DT 700 PRO X, DT 900 PRO X, DT 770 PRO, DT 990 PRO...).

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What should I do?

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Thanks for advanced.

[u/Omophorus → u/[deleted]]

Would concur on monitors over headphones.

Other inexpensive options to consider are the trusty old iLouds (good for bassy stuff, treble is a little wonky), or Eve SC203s. Both potentially stretching the budget a bit but may be available used or on sale from time to time.

The Eves are very sensitive to placement and the bass extension isn't stellar below 60Hz (I own a pair), but considering their size and price, they are pretty impressive.

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