I'm no speaker expert but I think I'd be looking at Powered since I'm just running out of a MacBook (no amp).  Also I won't have the money to buy with for another few weeks so I can't use a 4th of July sale, sadly.   Quote:

Two different houses I want to put them in. 

I live at my parents' home right now and will be going to college next year, so I cannot modify my room at all for these speakers.   Source: MacBook or iPhone directly (if you think that won't work well for this level of speaker, let me know what else I should put in the signal path)  ...

I haven't heard either, but I've been researching them for a while now, I'm getting myself a Boa. So this is all based on what I've read, a compilation of what everybody else on this forum seems to say about these amps. The audio quality won't be equal, although they're in the same price...

I'm actually in just about the same situation as you, with the same references. I had AKG K 26 Ps for my daily (loud) bus ride, I lost them, I got a pair of Grado SR-60s (with bowl pads, so they were effectively Grado SR-80s) and they broke on the bus (not to mention the lack isolation made me...

I saw a pair of Grado SR-125 headphones on the head of somebody in my high school library today! I ran up to the guy to take a picture and talk to him, and he stared at me. Figuring he must be a Head-Fi member, I said something along the lines of "Head-Fi! Head-Fi! It's OK!". He kept staring at...

A few years ago, I figured out that my iBuds sucked. Looking for new headphones, for some reason my first thought was to simply type "headphones.com" into my address bar and see where it led me. I accidentally left out the "s", bringing me to headphone.com: HeadRoom. Although I figured...

Europe

Obviously, I was listening to some very angry music through my Denon D5000s as I took this.

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but check out everything by Saul Williams. He does a sort of mix between hip-hop, slam poetry, rap, and grunge that's awesomely fun and really deep. Try "Amethyst Rock Star" for a poemy feel, "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!" for a very...

Pancakes, from the International House.

^ || || || || Sacrilege And as for me, my Denon D5000s.

Everything Is Illuminated - 8/10 The people watching it with me said it was too heavy-handed, obvious, etc. I agree it was a predictable plot, but I was captured through the whole movie. I liked it.

Find the 2-4 songs that are still available by De Capulet. They broke up in 2006 without ever releasing a record, and took down their MySpace, but their music was brilliant; "Love at a High Speed" is my personal favorite. Plus the lead, Jakob, is in new band soon called The Record Life and...

"99 Problems" - Jay-Z

M.I.A.

Nils Lofgren - Acoustic Live Something Corporate - Live at the Ventura Theater

Love at a High Speed by De Capulet. Sadly, immediately after realizing I love them, I realized that they had been broken up since 2006.

"Science vs. Romance" by Rilo Kiley is excellent, I've found.

I think Head-Fi needs this forum. Sometimes, when a wallet just can't be apologized to any more, Budget-Fi is the only way to go...

I find Grados pretty comfortable, based on my experience with the SR-60s, having used both bowl and comfy pads. They're very light. Comfy pads are, well, comfier, but don't seem to provide as much bass. Bowl pads sound excellent and aren't really uncomfortable per se, but they do put the...

Denon D5000 Grado SR-60 Razer Pro|Tone m250 iBuds

I could have used this a few days ago. My precious SR-60s lost one of the black pieces holding them together. Lesson: Don't leave headphones unprotected in backpack.

I'm a D5000 owner who had the same issue as you, I've never heard a D2000 but after research I decided to go for the D5000--mostly because the D2000 were reputed to need a recable to sound nearly as good. The D5000s are pretty good for most everything, I'd say they're strongest though in rock...

Nothing Better - The Postal Service