So I'm having trouble picking out some cans. I have a 150$ budget and looking for something closed back with crisp highs and vocals, fairly detailed mids and just enough bass..
I listen to all kinds of music, not much rap and rock tho... but I also watch a lot of movies.
So in the last 2 weeks I've taken the Senn HD449 for a test run, and I loved them, they were comfortable and the vocals really stood out, they were very clear and the mids were very detailed and present. It just didn't have enough bass.. it was there.. just pretty low in volume, but detailed and tight. It sucked with some types of music and made destruction scenes in a movie bland.
I got a refund on the HD449's and tried out the M-Audio Q40, I tried them out because I read the good reviews and they were the same price as the HD449s. Now these babies got BASS, LOTS OF IT, and it's very detailed bass.. makes movies very entertaining, but for music the bass is almost too much. I can fix it by turning down the EQ a little which isn't an issue. The issue is the vocals just aren't crisp enough for my liking and there's a slight hissing with S sounds, and it just becomes worse if you try to EQ it.. which drives me crazy because I notice it every time.
So I'm really trying to find the middle child of the Q40s and the HD449, I want a little less bass then the Q40 with comparable vocals and mids to the HD449.
