Over time I've gone through what I consider to be fairly many headphones, and in the end to my preference I keep coming back to HD650s. Partly because the sound signature makes almost anything sound good, and partly because the slightly laid back treble makes them extremely gentle on my ears (no...

Random note: I just wanted to say I take back everything I said before about the HD650 being "laid back". Before my biggest complaint with the HD650 (and reason I had the HD800 for a while) was that since the upper treble (14khz+) was recessed, it made violin, harpsichord and many classical...

> i dont know man the B&W cm series sounds good to my ears i've auditioned them before but I haven't heard any non mainstream brand of speakers. I guess I'm going to have to go searching for a local place.   And to prove my point, swap "B&W" in this sentence with "Beats" (not to say they're...

I personally was never impressed with any B&W speaker for the price. They sound vastly better than Bose, but that's not saying much.   If you're as interested as speakers as you are in headphones, please do the research. Almost everywhere I read, people say B&W is a pretty bad deal for the...

I'd look into Ascend Sierra-1. Though speakers are so different from headphones its hard to compare at all to headphones. Keep in mind you'll probably have to get a sub if you want to get low bass that you get from headphones, since most speakers don't go much below 60 or 70 hz, but it's well...

I've tried the LCD-2, and while I really liked the sound, I actually didn't find a huge sound quality difference from my HD650 -- now granted, this was again at a noisy headfi meet so it's not the best conditions to compare. Some day I'd like to give it a really good comparison.   The reason...

I've tried D2000s in a noisy store and didn't much like them - they sounded too "mushy" - but it was probably the noisy store. I generally don't like closed headphones, though I liked the comfortability of the Denons. I tried K701s out of an excellent amp at a meet, and while they were pretty...

Just thought I'd say some years ago I upgraded my HD650 to an HD800, and I'm once again back to the HD650 (plus some nice speakers for my "main" setup). In retrospect, I've tried far more headphones than I thought I would, getting into head-fi (the meme "Welcome to head-fi. Sorry about your...

Does anyone want an extra SRH940 cable, ear pad set, case, or other accessories? You can have them if you want for essentially shipping costs. Otherwise I'm going to end up throwing them away anyway.   The SRH940 was just too small for my head and ended up snapping the headband. Shure...

Quote:   USB cables don't make a difference. Not only is it obvious why if you have any education on the technology, but one of the designers of the USB standard explicitly said that it doesn't matter to audio whatsoever. Case closed.   That said, amps for the HD800 definitely makes a...

Edit: Removed incorrect shiny-new-toy impression.   Verdict: These headphones are by no means worth $300. Maybe $150-ish... and that's assuming they fix the painful treble resonance/spike issues. Another way to put it: At $300, I would not be particularly proud to show these off to a friend...

Well that's good to know, although certainly it's rather expensive. Especially for a >$1000 headphone, that's probably the ugliest and most questionable build quality I've ever seen.   > Edition8 > SRH940>D5000>SRH840>DT250-250>K271>HD 25>DT770-80   This is just what is so confusing to...

Yeah mine cracked too a while back. It's one of the reasons I can't really recommend the SRH940 any more, in addition to it being too uncomfortable in general for me. I think the headphone just wasn't designed for large heads, so the related structural stress causes both the cracking issue and...

Quote:   Well my HD800s are hi-fi, DT880s mid-fi, so that would put HD25s in lo-fi, correct? I suppose terminology is somewhat relative. Actually now that I think of it, "entry-fi" would be a better word probably. Maybe I'm rating these wrong though, in which case.... Great! If so, please...

I've been looking around and it seems unusually hard to pinpoint a good headphone that both isolates (at least somewhat) and sounds really good. I am aware of a fair number of closed headphones, but they either seem too low-fi or too polarizing.   For example I'm aware of M50, SRH840...