Closed headphone shoot-out: K271 vs. DT770 vs. D5000 vs. SRH840 vs. SRH940 vs. HD 25 - Page 6

zero7525 is right - I don't have the SR225s any more so can't compare them directly any more.   Listening to my HF-1s (SR225 drivers in wooden cups) to orchestral music straight out a Lavry DA11, the soundstage of the Grados and the Shures have a very different character.  I'll grant that the SRH840s have a bit better imaging, where I can place individual instruments a little better.  And instruments sound like they are further away, but strangely, a bit echoed and enclosed in a room. Probably because they are closed headphones.  The HF-1 sound like the first violin is, um, me (I used to play violin) and have a much more 'airy' sound without any sense of walls or spatial limit.  So I'll meet you halfway, and say that the Shures have a more clear, but bounded sense of space, where the Grados have a more spatially open feeling.  As much as I love the Shures (rated them higher than all the others), that closed and bounded feeling is my main quibble.

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Originally Posted by jessel 

Good review. However, I think you should add Senn HD25-1 II into your comparison, and I believe the ranking order will definitely change~

It took a while, but I was finally able to add the HD 25 to the roundup (along with the Shure SRH940), which is now included in first post.  The HD 25 did not fare very well when compared to the other headphones..