Need some advice

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Originally Posted by RKelly 

I was on another forum and they recomended this site for new headphone advice. i dont want to pretend and act like i no anything about headphones. I tried some bose headphones at best buy and that made me decide i want a nice set. But you guys know your ****, so what headphones would you recomend for under $300?

Criteria?

Tastes?

Prepared to buy source equipment or do they have to play out of your phone, ipod or computer or whatever you use?

Give some details. Otherwise, any headphone for $300 would fit your bill unless you actually have some criteria and details for us to filter the options.

Very best,

Heya,

Well, if you're using onboard sound from a motherboard, that's a pretty average or poor source. So getting an expensive headphone capable of so much more will sound relatively meh, to down right awful on such a source. In other words, depending on what your current source is, I would suggest you consider a little DAC/AMP combo or something. It can be had for about $100 or less (and some sound cards will be sufficient depending on budget).

Do you want open back? Closed? Preference on material type for the pads? Do you like the sound to be bright or energetic, or do you prefer a laid back mellow sound? Is there a style you prefer?

Very best,

In other words, MalVeauX is telling you that your source - (the "thing" into which you'll be plugging your headphones) -

plays a very important part in sound quality. 

Further, I'll add that the material on that source matters too.  If it consists of low bitrate music files, they're not going to sound

very good on high quality headphones.  It it's high bitrate (or preferably lossless) material, you will hear their quality on a set

of good phones.

So - what kind of music do you listen to, generally speaking? 

And does it matter to you whether other people hear what you're listening to as you listen?