Audio Technica ATH-M30x Professional Monitoring Headphones Audio-Technica

The M-Series ATH-M30x professional monitor headphones combine modern engineering and high-quality materials to deliver a comfortable listening experience, with enhanced audio clarity and sound isolation. Tuned for highly detailed audio, with strong mid-range definition, these versatile monitoring headphones are ideal in a variety of situations. Designed primarily for studio tracking and mixing, they offer added features for increased portability, making them a great choice for field recording.

Critically acclaimed M-Series professional monitor headphones deliver accurate audio and outstanding comfort, perfect for long sessions in the studio and on the go. Contoured earcups seal tight for excellent sound isolation, with minimal bleed. And the pro-grade materials are durable, yet comfortable.

• 40 mm drivers with rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils
• Tuned for enhanced detail, with excellent mid-range definition
• Circumaural design contours around the ears for excellent sound isolation in loud environments
• Convenient single-side cable exit
• Collapsible for space-saving portability
• Designed to excel for studio tracking, mixing and field recording
• 15 – 22,000 Hz frequency response
• 96-decibel sensitivity

• Maximum input power of 1,300 mW at 1 kHz 

• Neodymium magnet
• 47 ohms
  
• 6.3 mm (1/4″) snap-on adapter included

McKinley chose the Audio Technica ATH-M Series Headphones as one of her Staff Picks — here’s what she has to say about them! 

“Up until I purchased these headphones from HMT in 2020, I had been on a grueling, 5-year-long quest to find the perfect headphones that would allow me to record and mix my own music from home without sacrificing quality or spending the bulk of my savings account. I went through four pairs of ‘studio quality’ headphones, the first of which sounded as dull and dumb as a blunted baseball bat; another of those failed headphone experiments (which cost $100 on eBay) sounded like they were playing sound through two rusted metal trashcans.
Then came the ATH-M Series to the rescue! They’re more on the affordable side of recording quality headphones; they maintain an astonishing amount of clarity in the low end; and the higher frequencies that are notorious for becoming thin and ice-picky sound so incredibly healthy and rich. I have since used them to mix four studio-length albums and several dozen live shows, and I am happy to say that these headphones are a perfect purchase and I’ll be sticking with them for some years to come!”