AKG K44

These went out of production several years ago, but whatever.

First, the earpads are made from an awful stiff leathery plastic material that is uncomfortable and doesn't seal whatsoever, feels like hard plastic on your ears.

Sound is kind of muffled, echoey, mids pushed forward, lacks bass (as someone mentioned, it rather feels like some unnatural bloated bass, and even so it's not prominent) they are closed but it lets a lot of sound in, even with different earpads.

Onto that, I did replace the earpads so fit, comfort and isolation improved significantly, but sound did not change much.

If it tells you anything, I much prefer my KZ EDX Pro IEMs that I got for 10 USD. Of course, not considering that the K44 are discontinued and probably hard to find brand new.

-Overall: Equalization and earpad replacement is a must. Cheaply built, VERY poorly tuned. Probably okayish back in 2007, but nowadays it's a complete waste of money.
Even so, I still use them from time to time because why the heck not. I love music.

Great for the price. I use mine with a Muse TU-20 HP amp and they sound great together.

I literally just picked a pair of these up from guitar center about an hour ago. I brought them home and compared them with my Rokit 6 monitors and cheap Senhieser HD 201 headphones. Immediately I noticed the bass response is too high and inaccurate, which is disappointing from a studio mixing point of view. Due to this I'd imagine these get a lot of good reviews based off the pyschoacoustic effect that louder is better. Overall, these would be great consumer headphones at a phenomenal price break, but clearly these are not for the true studio mixing engineer.