Headphone Buyer's Guide

[jgonino]

I will work on adding both the "amping" quality to each headphone as well as sort them by price.

[derek8555]

I know this will add a LOT of work... but it would be nice if you could also include the typical price for used units (or estimates), which would greatly help people who are on their budget to choose the best phone they can afford.

Great work btw! Keep it up!

[jgonino]

Originally Posted by derek8555

I know this will add a LOT of work... but it would be nice if you could also include the typical price for used units (or estimates), which would greatly help people who are on their budget to choose the best phone they can afford.

Great work btw! Keep it up!

Ok i added the amp rankings as well as sorted the list by price within each category. I tried to take an average of the used and new prices for the price i listed. I will make any changes neccesary to fix that.

[fraseyboy]

Wow handy guide! About time someone did something like this! Nice job. Thanks!

Now that there's a guide like this for DAC's and Headphones there only needs to be one for amps.

[Progenitor]

If you don't mind, I want to add some captions on phones I have in my procession:

Audio-Technica A900: Massive soundstage, strong bass, and comfort are its strong points. Great for watching movies and slow imtimate jazz. Slight weakness in the low-midrange. Improves ever so slightly with amp provided source is clean.


Grado RS2: A gentler and more refine model of Grado. Liquid mid-range and if used with flat pads, slammy bass. Very good paired with the Mapletree Ear+ (Tube), or Headamp GS-1 (solid state). If 325i is too sharp for you this is the phone to go for.

Sennheiser CX300: Great for the price. Lovely midrange, and very strong bass (although uncontrolled). Boomy bass can be overwhelming at times but does not cover midrange. Highs are the weakness of this phone.

[BruteFM]

Where the hell can you get a Sennheiser HD650 for $275?

[jgonino]

Originally Posted by BruteFM

Where the hell can you get a Sennheiser HD650 for $275?

This is an average between the used market, and the new market. The new price was around 325 and the used 260

[jgonino]

Originally Posted by Progenitor

If you don't mind, I want to add some captions on phones I have in my procession:

Audio-Technica A900: Massive soundstage, strong bass, and comfort are its strong points. Great for watching movies and slow imtimate jazz. Slight weakness in the low-midrange. Improves ever so slightly with amp provided source is clean.


Grado RS2: A gentler and more refine model of Grado. Liquid mid-range and if used with flat pads, slammy bass. Very good paired with the Mapletree Ear+ (Tube), or Headamp GS-1 (solid state). If 325i is too sharp for you this is the phone to go for.

Sennheiser CX300: Great for the price. Lovely midrange, and very strong bass (although uncontrolled). Boomy bass can be overwhelming at times but does not cover midrange. Highs are the weakness of this phone.

I cannot fit all of that for one HP, so i took 2 bits from each. I hope that is ok?

[jgonino]

Anyone have more stuff to put in the 300-500 category?

[Progenitor]

Awesome job on shortening my description! Thanks for putting them in