Neumann NDH 20, Closed Back Studio Headphones

Neumann Studio Headphones

The Neumann NDH 20 is a closed-back headphone combining excellent isolation with the carefully balanced sound image and outstanding resolution you’d expect from a Neumann product. The NDH 20 is thus ideally suited to monitoring and mixing tasks, even in loud and noisy environments. Circum-aural memory foam ear pads offer high long-term comfort.

The NDH 20 is suited to all applications that require high sound isolation such as monitoring for musicians and engineers in the tracking room as well as FOH work. It is also an excellent choice for critical listening, free from disturbance from the outside world and, vice versa, without causing disturbance to people nearby due to leakage. Thanks to its extended frequency response ranging from 5 Hz to 30 kHz the NDH 20 is particularly helpful to check the upper and lower extremes of the audio band.

Unlike most other closed-back headphones, the Neumann NDH 20 is suited to mixing purposes too. An unusually even frequency response and natural stereo image allow for mixing with confidence and ensure compatibility to all playback systems. The NDH 20 is thus an indispensable tool for working on the road. Of course, it is also an excellent headphone for audiophile entertainment.

Sound on Sound Review - May 2019
"The more I used them, the more I appreciated that what I heard initially heard as a flat and unexciting sound is actually just the absence of distortion... When I took mixes that sounded good on both studio monitors and my usual headphones and played them on the NDH 20s, I found myself noticing resonances, unevenness and mud that I hadn't previously been aware of; and when I put the same mixes back on my other systems afer EQ'ing them on the NDH 20s, there was a real improvement... What Neumann's engineers have done is to take seriously the goal of creating headphones specifically for studio use. This is absolutely not a hi-fi design repurposed with a new paint job and a different model number, but a tool designed from the ground up to meet the needs of recording engineers... The headphone market is a crowded one, and these are not cheap, but Neumann have located a niche for a genuinely studio-focused design - and the NDH 20s fill that niche very successfully."

• Linear sound balance, like Neumann’s acclaimed studio monitors
• Excellent isolation allows working in noisy environments
• Transparent sound with high resolution
• High long-term comfort, easy transportation