AcouSticks DJ lollipop headphone stickphone SONY MDRv700

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If you have major concerns about hearing damage, and have decided to go the in-ear route, instead of even dealing with monitors (like our esteemed editor), then more power to you. But a lollipop is not for you either. I like to take my ear away from the headphone while I’m mixing so that I can make sure that I’m in the right place.” If you can’t rely on having a decent monitor setup at a gig – a lollipop is not for you (not that night, anyway).

I’ve been using a lollipop since 1977. I started with the original Sennheiser 412 mono single headphone. It was dubbed “the lollipop”. What I like about using a lollipop is that I can hear what’s going on on the dance floor as well. I could never play with normal headphones. It doesn’t feel natural. I feel like a pilot…One final reason you might want to avoid a lollipop is if you’re attached to the look of regular DJ cans. I’ve spoken to a few people who would feel positively naked without their big headphones attached to their head throughout a gig; it’s pretty much the only thing that identifies them to the crowd as ‘the DJ’; their uniform. But in an age where people walk the streets in big Beats, Sony, and V-Moda headphones all day long, is that really something that sets us apart anymore? Something to think about, anyway. How To Try Them – Mass-Produced

DJs of the more ‘vintage’ variety, and those with a love for deep house or disco, will most likely be very familiar with them, of course. But exposure to lollipops, in this day and age, is far from guaranteed. I wouldn’t say there has been a massive resurgence in lollipop manufacturing, as there are still very few pre-built models around, and that’s not really any more than the early 2000s, when, as far as I know, Vestax and Stanton were the only company mass-producing a model at all. Despite being a creaky old DJ myself, I only started experimenting with lollipops recently, after using regular cans for my whole career. So I asked someone who has been using a lollipop since the days of disco, house music legend David Morales, what his perspective is on why lollipops are still the way to go:When we talk about lollipops today, we’re talking about either custom builds, or about the few mass-produced models on the market, all of which are largely the same in principle, based on the original Sennheiser 412 design used by Larry Levan and the disco greats: If you want to go the pre-built route, then these are your two main options today: Numark Redphone The Numark Redphone available here in the DJTT web store There are a number of one-man-band type producers of lollipops, all around the world. I was surprised to find as many as I did, when researching this feature.