Thank you so much for the recommendations, I'll have to read through the links you gave me and see what other options I should consider.  My travel orders aren't until the end of may so I have quite some time, that asian hp thread is a great source, can't believe I never came across that.  ...

Just like the title, could you guys recommend me some decent over ear headphones with the following criteria?    Cheap - Less than $75 (unless they're extremely good for the value) Rugged - Something I can throw into a backpack once I'm at the office or when I get home and can switch to my...

So it's been a whole week since I've received these in the mail, with about 40 hours through them I am even more obsessed! It may be all in my head, but man have these headphones opened up!  At first I knew they were fathoms ahead compared to what I was using before, but I really believe that...

Would these be a good beater pair for when I can't/don't want to use my NAD Viso HP50's?  Of course I'm not expecting the same sound quailty, I just don't want a massive difference.

I knew that...I was just making sure I ask that so others who read will find out...hahaha. Thank you for that, I'm just a little new to this.

DAP - Does that stand for Digital to Analog Amp?  Also I should be clear that I am most definitely not using them as portable headphones, the area of my school had the mentality of, "if it's shiny it's worth stealing." I just wanted portable because my laptop stays on my lab for hours on end...

Hi everyone, I'm new to both the forum and to "higher-end" headphones.  I've only ever been exposed to Klipsch Reference S4's and a set of Bose QC15's (please don't flame me, but this was my baseline for good sound quality headphones of any sort).    So I recently bought the NAD HP50's and...