[casoninabox]

Cans I own:
Audio Technica ATH M50WH - Good airplane headphones
Superlux HD681 - Unbelievable for the price
AKG K701 - Comfort, Sounstage, Sounds like everything is in the room with you. Bass is super lame.  Also, the best looking headphones ever made IMO.
Shure SRH-440 - Horrible pieces of crap
 
All powered with a Fiio E17
 
Have access to:
Sennheiser HD-598 - Similar to the AKGs, the bass was actually clipping on these.  Scared me.
Audio Technica ATH-AD700 - Ugly, sound pretty good.  Don't remember them that well.
 
Have tried:
Ultrasone 780 - So unbelievably uncomfortable.  I think they were decent, but I couldn't stand them on my head for more than a minute. ATH M50's are better all around IMO.
 
Genres (In order of most listened to)
Dubstep
Hiphop
Rock
Pop.
 
 
My Question
The Superlux sub-bass is awesome.  Its not punchy and annoying, but you know its there.  Other than that I like everything else about the AKG's.  But they just make my favorite genres sound flat and lame.
 
I'm thinking of returning the AKG's if there's a better alternative out there for me.  Thoughts?

 

[MalVeauX]

Heya,
 
AKG K167
AKG K550
AudioTechnica A900X
 
Or if you need to stay open air, look into the Beyer DT880 PRO and Ultrasone HFI 2400.
 
Very best,