Hello everyone, first of all, congratulations on having an excellent forum, I just joined and I feel like if I was with my own kind

Now, I need a little bit of help with my selection of headphones:
I was looking in the internet for some suggestions for a new pair, but I had many doubts on whether I should choose one or another, so I was thinking mainly on 3 headphones, the Sennheiser Momentum, ATH-M50 or the Sony MDR-1RBT, but I'm confused on which I should decide, I mainly listen to electronic music, but I listen to almost all the genres so a "genre-master" would be ideal, or at least the best on electronic would be fine, price is not much of a problem, but I'd like to spend up to $500 US dollars, so any suggestions? or which of the 3 should I use?
(I won't bother on the Beats, I know they are overpriced as for what they offer, but I respect any beats suggestion)

 

First of all, do you have to buy closed-back headphones (i.e, there is no grill.holes on the enclosure for sound to leak out)?
 
And how are you going to listen? at home (stationary) and/or at road (portable)? 

Oops, forgot to mention that,  yeah, It need to be  closed back and I use headphones at home, but what would be the difference between stationary and portable?

sirreyson said:

  Oops, forgot to mention that,  yeah, It need to be  closed back and I use headphones at home, but what would be the difference between stationary and portable?

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A portable headphone is usually made to be lightweight, built for more rugged use, of low impedance such that it can be powered from a DAP or mobile phone. Something you would feel comfortable wearing and walking on the street or on public transport.
 
A non-portable headphone, for home listening would generally be less rugged (since its only for home use), may require amplification, could be heavy/bulky, but produces much better sound. It tends to also be less forgiving towards its source (revealing of flaws or poor quality easily). Something you would not want to bring out of your house.
 
For portable use, most would recommend using In Ear Monitors (IEMS), as it is much lighter and smaller than most portable headphones. Also because there are many great IEMs/CIEMs (custom) that produce great sound quality, as compared to only a handful good portable headphones.

sirreyson said:

  Oops, forgot to mention that,  yeah, It need to be  closed back and I use headphones at home, but what would be the difference between stationary and portable?

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That makes the situation a bit more tricker.
For your budget, pretty much only decent phones for electronic music is DT770 Pro (250 ohm harder to drive than lower ohm version, but sound is slightly better) or Audio technica M50, which is 175 bucks and 150 bucks on Amazon right now.
I am not sure about your source situation, but if assuming your source will be a typical computer, you may want to go some cheap DAC/amp combo like Fiio, Nuforce or schiit's Magni/Modi combo but schiit combo is kinda too much for just using for DT770.
 
 
Examples.
 
http://www.amazon.com/Beyerdynamic-770-PRO-250-ohms/dp/B0006NL5SM/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379219553&sr=1-1&keywords=beyerdynamic+dt770
 
or
 
http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B000ULAP4U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379220187&sr=8-1&keywords=m50
 
 
and typical USB/DAC combo
 
http://www.amazon.com/Nuforce-ICON-UDAC2-BLACK-Headphone-Amplifier-USB/dp/B003Y5FRNS/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379220107&sr=1-3&keywords=usb+dac
 
 
Now, the reason wh

Thanks man!
And by the way, in overall sound, which pair sounds better?  DT 770 PRO or M50? 

sirreyson said:

Thanks man!
And by the way, in overall sound, which pair sounds better?  DT 770 PRO or M50? 

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The Beyers are certainly a step up from the m50, but harder to drive.

Thanks for all the help guys, I´m just a noob to the world of the audiophiles