Recommendations for closed bassy headphones

Denon D2000, among others.

Denon has the sound you want. Very strong bass that does not compromise the rest of the spectrum. Though they stand to get better with top notch amplification, they definitely sound pretty great even right out of my first gen Zune mp3 player.

Like the posters above said, I'd look into some reviews of the Denon AH-D2000 if I were you. You should also consider the Ultrasone HFI-780. Having owned both, I think both headphones would easily satisfy your requests. I preferred the forwardness of the Ultrasones, so I sold off my Denons. However, the Denons are 100x more comfortable on the head than the Ultrasones are...but I'm swapping out the headband and pads soon, so maybe my Ultrasones can be similar in comfort eventually. Again, I strongly suggest you look into reviews and comparisons of the D2000s and HFI-780s. It's been a long time since I've owned the D2000s, so I can't really do a side by side comparison for you. But I can tell you that both are great headphones that will surely satisfy your electronic music/movie watching fix.

edit: from my experience, the Ultrasones sounded better unamped to me. However, both headphones improve quite a bit from an amplifier. Lately the Ultrasones have been available for as low as $118 on amazon.com. I'd try to pick that up with an amp such as the fiio e10 or uDAC2. You could end up with a nice headphone+portable amp/dac setup that would fit your budget.

The HFI-780 is also much more portable. it can fold flat and comes with a 3 foot cord + extension cable. I don't recall exactly how long the Denon cord was, but it was significantly longer than 3 feet (probably approaching 6-10 ft). In addition, the Denons are bigger sized headphones which do not fold flat.

I honestly haven't heard any of those headphones listed except the 780. While I don't really like to comment on headphones that I have never heard, I've read that the 580 has a bit more bass and tamer highs than the 780. Some feel the 780s can be overly bright and the treble can hurt their ears. I personally have never experienced this. But then again, I do prefer a more forward "in your face" kind of sound. I've also read that the 680 seems to sound the same as the 780 in terms of highs and mid presentation, but the 680 has less bass to give a more balanced sound. Both the 580 and 780 are quite colored headphones which have a somewhat forward sound "in your face" type of sound signature which emphasizes bass and treble. A V-shaped sound curve, if you will. I absolutely love my 780s...especially for electronic music.

I haven't really had time to read much about the 900, so I'd continue to search and read reviews and posts on those headphones from other forum members here if I were you. I also haven't a clue about what the Denon AH-D1100 sounds like other than it sounds nothing like its predecessor which I owned a few years back (AH-D1000). One of the things I distinctly remember reading about the D1100 is that it has quite a large quantity of bass which could offershadow other frequencies.

I won't lie to you, I am very partial to the Ultrasone sound signature. Having owned multiple products from Sennheiser, Denon, Westone (in ear phones), and Ultrasone, I greatly prefer my Ultrasones and Westones over the former two due to their more forward sound presentation.

The only Sennheisers that really have a chance of having the right bass for electronic music are the HD25-1 II, HD-650 (probably too laid back), and HD-212 Pro (lower SQ).  Companies like Ultrasone and Denon are much more suited to the genre. 

I have the Pro 900 and HFI-780, and the 900 is better for electronic music primarily due to increased bass, soundstage, and clarity, but it would stretch your budget.  It'd be worth it to me (it's my go-to can for all things electronic and bassy), but might not be for you.  The Denon D1100 is known for a drop off in sub-bass, so you wouldn't really want it, the D2000 would be much preferable. 

Haha that's great of amazon to do. They do have a great return policy that you can take advantage of (just don't abuse it ). The 780s are known to need a lot of hours of burn in before they settle into their true form. I think mine took around 200-300 before the sound stopped changing to me ears. However regardless of any minute sound changes they may go through, their overall sound signature remains the same throughout the process. So let us know your impressions when you get them! Hopefully they suit your needs as well as they have suited mine. The journey through different sound signatures is a fun one, and is really great once you find the right can with the right sound signature for your liking.

if you would go for the pro 900 i would also consider the D5000 its the D2000 with out a lacking mids as the D2000 has a vshaped frequency response and the D500 doesn't

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Originally Posted by JoshGlzBrk 

Got them a couple days ago, so far so good especially after finding a system wide equalizer app for osx lol.

 

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That's good to hear. Hope you enjoy them! A cheap amp/dac does help clean up the sound a bit though, especially through notebooks. Perhaps you could look into trying something like a uDAC2 or fiiO e10 one day in the future. I run all my music through the wasapi plugin of foobar2k to my nuforce icon mobile (amp/dac) to the hfi-780's and am quite happy with the set up.