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Hearing Audio in Headphones While Recording

I am recording a podcast, and would like to hear everything that is being said through headphones in real time. Here's my setup.

MXL 990 condenser mics into the mic jacks of a Mackie VLZ series mixer. An instrument cable from the out port of the back of the mixer, into the instrument input of a PreSonus firebox. Firewire out of the firebox into the USB port of a macbook.

Tracking Headphones

I know that headphones have been discussed a lot, but I thought I'd ask again with a bit of a specific focus. I want to focus on cans used for tracking, so accurate sound is not a big issue. The sound has to be clean and clear, but if it is hyped or cut in some area that helps a player improve performance so much the better.

Headphone monitoring

I am thinking of doing some monitoring using in ear headphones.
I was wondering if anyone has ever had the oppurtunity to compare
the in ear Monster copper headphones with the Sennheiser IE 8 in ear
headphones? These two contenders I have not been able to seperate
thus far. Does anyone have an opinion? Thanks for any info you could