Headphones for people that are Partly Deaf

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Dear Logan 

I know you are an audiophile and know your headphones. I really want to get into a better sound experience however; I only have 30% of my hearing in my left ear. I play music, edit video, and do video journalism. I like a closed experenice but have heard that open headphones give a little better experenice.

Thank you so much for not just this site but all your videos. 

Tyr

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Tyr, what is your budget, and country you live in?

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$150-$200 in the USA

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Ok. Since I'm not an extremely big hheadphone person, here's a guy thats had tones of headphones.http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjwyYOFwZg This guy ^ . the video is about top 5 best headphones under 200$ that he recommends (hes pretty trustworth in his videos). This video might give you a good idea of some headphones under 200$. I hope I helped narrow down some headphones to chose from,  if not, sorry. 

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thanks that is really helpful

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if you have any kind of headphone amp or soundcard get these, unbeatable for that price. http://www.amazon.com/Beyerdynamic-AMS-DT-990-Pro-250-Professional-Acoustically-Applications/dp/B0011UB9CQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377923114&sr=8-1&keywords=dt990

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70% deaf in one ear? 


That's bad. headphones wont help much unless they're surface transmission.(or the more popular term 'Bonephones')


Is the deafness caused by the ear drum or is it the Cochlea itself? If it's the former, i'd suggest to look toward those bone-conducting headphones since you might get a balanced stereo experience then. (or if you're loaded there's implants that can do that

I cant really think of a decent set of commercial bonephones though, perhaps the ones that were on kickstarter recently?

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its caused by the ear drum

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If you find a good pair of bone conducting headphones you'll be able to enjoy the sound like anyone else. The bone conduction phones bypass the eardrum and use the surrounding bone to transfer the sound. You do lose some FR in the process and the final result is (from what i've read) quite negative, but that was two years ago, and i recently saw a kickstarter suceed for bone conduction so there might be decent options out there.

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Thanks everyone