Quote: Originally Posted by felichella where yu from jaynoon? I live in Seattle, WA. I was able to listen to the Sennheisers and Grados at Magnolia AV. Heading to Guitar Center to see if I can convince them to take some Audiotechnicas out of the box. Quote: Originally...

I wish there were more dealers with headphones on display. I went to a local place that had Senns and Grados, and I liked the HD280 versus the cheaper Senns they had, but there wasn't anything else to compare them to. It really makes shopping for headphones a frustrating experience.

I guess I got confused because Amazon lists the D1001s as "On-Ear Headphones"

spacemanspliff, at the beginning of this thread you said you thought the 900s needed to be amped.. Since they're both using the same drivers, does this mean both the 700/900 should really be amped?

Somehow got my wires crossed on that one, moved the 1001s to my short list, as that was my primary complaint

I'm looking for a first-intro to hifi phones, and have found myself stuck in my decision making, as I can't test most of these locally. I would like to spend no more than $100, and have listed the two phones I'm really considering right now. I have also thrown in some ones that I considered but...

There is a huge thread on the GAF where everyone is hyping up Sennheiser HD280 Pros.. Of course I then came on here and there is a fair amount of criticism for those phones. The Audiotechnica stuff seems to be regularly recommended for gaming and other mixed purposes. I'm leaning towards...