gikigill said:

The A5Pro is a very different beast from all of the cans mentioned, it's more on the flatter side of things. Very high quality drivers and a pitch black background.

The Sony has nowhere near the bass you want.

The Sennheiser has boosted bass nut won't punch like the M100.

I own the Philips and the Sennheiser and spent a few hours with the Sony before returning it back. The Philips has a very clean and clear signature that has its own appeal though it might not be for you. The Sennheiser HD8/7 might be a better fit if you want plenty of bass similar to the M100 but they will need power to get there.

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It's difficult to know exactly what he wants.  He's barely given us any information.

danpyre said:

  It's difficult to know exactly what he wants.  He's barely given us any information.

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Well I decided to try the Momentum 2. I found them on Amazon in refurbished like new condition ( I really hope that is the case, would be very disappointed if they turned out to be broken or show signs of use) for only $145 shipped so could not resist that low price for them. They are currently being shipped but will probably take a couple of weeks to reach me here in Sweden!
 
I hope I will end up liking them. Only issue I see is that I just found out that the cable comes of the right ear cup and that can be an issue when using it with my computer since I operate my mouse with the right hand and the keyboard is also in the way for it to reach the speaker connection. But I hope I can solve that with an extension cable. Do these require a special cable of some sort? Will I have issues connecting a cable with mic/phone controls to a regular head phone port on a speaker?

dbdynsty25 said:

Spend a touch more and get the Fiio Q1...much better all around and pairs up nicely w/ the M100s.

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Thank you for the recommendation, I'll look into it and maybe I can save a little more. Cheers bro.

whataudiophile said:

If you are ready to shell out some more money,Fiio x3 2nd Gen is a solid choice.

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Alright, thank you for your recommendation. I'll take a good look into it. Cheers.

Need advice, I want a headphone that is a good all around headphone, I like bass but not to much. I listen to mostly R&B like Neyo, anything from the show Empire soundtrack, old school rap ( Easy-E, Tupac, Biggie Smalls,) but I also listen to Oldies, rock (Nirvana, Hole, L7, Janis Joplin) so I guess I need a good all around headphone 200-300 or cheaper range. I was looking at V-Moda's LP2 or M100 but it doesn't have to be those. I'm a newbie, currently I just currently have Plantronics backbeat Pro. Any advice I would appreciate. Thank you.

brutalriot said:

Need advice, I want a headphone that is a good all around headphone, I like bass but not to much. I listen to mostly R&B like Neyo, anything from the show Empire soundtrack, old school rap ( Easy-E, Tupac, Biggie Smalls,) but I also listen to Oldies, rock (Nirvana, Hole, L7, Janis Joplin) so I guess I need a good all around headphone 200-300 or cheaper range. I was looking at V-Moda's LP2 or M100 but it doesn't have to be those. I'm a newbie, currently I just currently have Plantronics backbeat Pro. Any advice I would appreciate. Thank you.

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You're gonna have to look elsewhere buddy.

I suggest you go to a Microsoft Store and try the M100 if you can. Also BestBuy usually has a few headphones on display. In Canada they have a selection of Beta, Monster, and Sony. In the States I think the Magnolia locations may have a better selection to try. Being in Canada I would suggest trying the MDR100AAP at a BB if possible. Also try the smaller Vmoda on ear model as it is more balanced than the M100. I think I would avoid the older LP2 if I was you. Finally Apple stores also have a selection of headphone you can try out as well such as the Master Dynamics or one of the Bowers and Wilkins.
 
If you can try a couple of those in store and post back what you like or dislike about them we can help you decide which direction to go from there.

I'm in Texas, but I guess you're right, I have to physically go and try them on if possible because everyone's hearing style and needs are different. For some reason when I go to my local stores the items that they have on display are usually broken, stolen, half working, or just plain not connected, so that was something I was originally trying to avoid. I had saw that the V-Moda's were on sale and wanted to jump on the opportunity, but I guess this process is going to take time if I truly want the best sounding for me, for my money. I was listening to Michael Jackson's Xscape album with my Plantronic backbeat Pros .

Pressed the reply button by accident when I wasn't finished yet. With my backbeat Pros and I heard instrumental stuff I never heard before, it got me thinking what have I been missing? So I do know Bluetooth headphones won't be as good as non bluetooth, so I wanted more of that sound, that feeling.

I can say I listen to a lot of classic rock and I love my M100. Of you can get them on sale from some place with a return policy then I would say try them. They have big bass but they also have create midrange and treble too.

dweaver said:

I can say I listen to a lot of classic rock and I love my M100. Of you can get them on sale from some place with a return policy then I would say try them. They have big bass but they also have create midrange and treble too.

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Something that's pretty close but not quite as bass heavy is the Sony MDR-1A...it's got a bass emphasis that's good for hip hop...just not quite as much as the M100s.

Yup the 1A is also nice. I personally prefer the M100 though due to wind noise issues with the Sony models. So if you have wind where you live I recommend the M100 over the 1A.

Today, January 23rd, is a special day.
 
It was one year ago today -- at the Houston airport on the way in to the U.S. to visit family -- that I bought my first pair of V-Moda Crossfade M-100 headphones at a Brookstone store there (after comparing prices online). My old, fake pair of “Beats by Dr. Dre” headphones that I got at a cheap electronics market in Chongqing that previous fall had kept breaking on me, so I decided to get a genuine pair of V-Moda M-100s after hearing a lot of great things about them on the Internet.
 
Little did I know that this would be the first step in a lonnnng journey that would improve my portable headphone system so much that, today -- one year later -- my system sounds so amazingly incredible...that if you compared the way it used to sound -- even during my visit to the U.S. last winter -- the sound would be absolutely and completely unrecognizable.
 
So...10 days after getting back to Chongqing in late February last year, at a local hi-fi shop I bought my first portable headphone amplifier (the FiiO E12A) that was tethered to my iPod Classic. It sounded awesome and I thought I “had it made,”...until March 20th when discovering something on the user forums at the website Head-Fi.org: a discovery of something that turned out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread that would alter the course of my history forever: Rockbox firmware for the iPod Classic.
 
This free, open-source, downloadable firmware enables me to use Notepad on my computer to program and organize a virtually-infinite number of custom equalizer (EQ) presets for my iPod with a huge decibel (dB) range and a “precut” feature to prevent distortion from it. I didn’t go out of my apartment for the next four days I was so glued to it, and programmed my first set of nearly 200 EQ presets with huge bass increments!  I also created a .zip file with these presets, and uploaded them to the Internet so people at the Head-Fi forum could download and use them on their own Rockboxed music players.
 
About two weeks later (in early April) I realized that the portable amp I had didn’t quite have enough power to push these huge sub-bass increments, so I went back to the hi-fi shop and got a different amp -- the Cayin C5 -- that had more than twice the power of the old one, which I’m still using to this day.
 
In late May I made some major discoveries about the EQ (in the beloved Rockbox firmware on the iPod), and figured out how to make it sound so completely out-of-this-world I didn’t even know what hit me. So I spent several days overhauling the EQ presets and created “Version 2.0” with exactly 300 of them! I also wrote a long user guide about them during the first week of June (on the Head-Fi forum) and included the new zip-file upload with it.
 
A couple weeks later in June, I went to the hi-fi shop and bought a second pair of genuine V-Moda M-100 headphones (which was a white pair to go with my existing black pair), and a second Cayin C5 portable headphone amp to go with it – for the purpose of enjoying my music with friends. We could listen to the same song together from my iPod with the same sound quality, and my friend could turn down her own volume on her own amp if she thought it was too loud -- while I could still jam with mine cranked up at the same time!
 
Well, in late November I rediscovered a large bass-boost feature in Rockbox that I had overlooked and forgotten about, which was totally separate from the EQ. This prompted me to spend the following two weeks of my spare time (until mid-December) reorganizing and improving my EQ presets to work with this bass-boost feature, adding new options, and omitting redundant ones...to give me “Version 3.0” with further-improved sound, and with 2 sets of more than 400 presets.
 
I made some minor corrections to it early this month (in January) to make it sound the way it should, thereby creating Version 3.1.  I also spent a lot of time re-writing the user guide (for the first time since June) to go with it.
 
But Version 3.1 didn’t last long, either. Just one week ago I spent all day and all night re-organizing it so it’s easier to use, and added some new categories for “special cases”...to come out with the brand-new, latest Version 4.0!  (It now has 2 sets of 590 presets.)  I re-wrote parts of the user guide a few days later, and re-posted it just in time for the 1-year anniversary of the purchase of my first pair of V-Moda M-100 headphones! 
 
If you’re wondering,...even that big car stereo I had in my last car many years ago...can’t even hold a candle to this portable headphone system I’ve got now. 
 
So,...that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it! You can view the “complete user guide” to Version 4.0 of these illustrious EQ presets by clicking on the following link:  http://www.head-fi.org/t/795363/discoprojoe-s-rockbox-eq-presets-version-4-0-complete-user-guide
 
And so,...one year after getting my first pair of M-100s, as a hardcore V-Moda Crossfade M-100 fanboy inside and out, I can happily say...Thank you, Val Kolton ( @valkolton ), for putting out the most awesome headphones in the world. 

dbdynsty25 said:

Spend a touch more and get the Fiio Q1...much better all around and pairs up nicely w/ the M100s.

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whataudiophile said:

If you are ready to shell out some more money,Fiio x3 2nd Gen is a solid choice.

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Thank you guys for the recommendations. I've decided to go with the Fiio X3 2nd Gen after trying it out at a shop. Also, what portable amp is recommended to go with the Fiio X3 2nd Gen? I mostly use my M100 and SE215. Thanks (again).

azimkajai said:

Thank you guys for the recommendations. I've decided to go with the Fiio X3 2nd Gen after trying it out at a shop. Also, what portable amp is recommended to go with the Fiio X3 2nd Gen? I mostly use my M100 and SE215. Thanks (again).

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Dude,Fiio X3 2nd is not just a lossless music player.It has an in-built amp. It has got enough power to drive both M100 and SE215 to ear-bleeding levels.Enjoy!