Mastershroom
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Good evening. ^_^ This is my first post here on Head-Fi, so forgive me if I'm breaking any rules or posting this in the wrong place (and if you can't forgive me, at least don't yell too loud!
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Anyway, I suppose I'll make this clear from the start: I am not what you would call an audiophile. My knowledge of audio equipment and quality is pathetic at best.
Now that my $20 Koss headphones from four years ago have finally died (wires have come unsoldered inside the volume control pod, and I'm not interested in fixing it), I'm in the market for a good pair of stereo headphones. I prefer circumaural headphones, the kind with the cups that completely surround the ear. In-ear headphones are out of the question.
I would mostly use them for music; I've got a Razer Carcharias headset and Logitech Z-2300 speakers for gaming, movies and all that. The music would mostly be coming from my netbook and my iPod (64GB 3rd gen, if that matters), and primarily in 320kbps MP3 files, although I do some streaming via Pandora and Grooveshark as well. As for the actual content of the music, I'm kind of all over the place. The majority of my stuff is various forms of rock and metal (ska, punk rock, classic rock, melodeath, metalcore, symphonic metal, for example), but I've got a fair amount of classical/symphonic stuff (Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Holst, etc.), and a sprinkling of jazz of different sorts.
Also, if it's relevant, I don't have an amp, and quite frankly I have no idea what that even is, I just see it's a word being tossed around with high-quality headphones.
Isolation isn't an issue, so open-ear designs as well as closed-ear are okay.
I feel that now is a good time to mention that I am a lowly unemployed college student, and I am pretty strictly limiting my budget to $70 for this.
I apologize if I'm asking the impossible here. Anyway, thanks in advance to anyone who helps! (or at least, to anyone who tells me I'm a delusional idiot, if that's the case!)
Anyway, I suppose I'll make this clear from the start: I am not what you would call an audiophile. My knowledge of audio equipment and quality is pathetic at best.
Now that my $20 Koss headphones from four years ago have finally died (wires have come unsoldered inside the volume control pod, and I'm not interested in fixing it), I'm in the market for a good pair of stereo headphones. I prefer circumaural headphones, the kind with the cups that completely surround the ear. In-ear headphones are out of the question.
I would mostly use them for music; I've got a Razer Carcharias headset and Logitech Z-2300 speakers for gaming, movies and all that. The music would mostly be coming from my netbook and my iPod (64GB 3rd gen, if that matters), and primarily in 320kbps MP3 files, although I do some streaming via Pandora and Grooveshark as well. As for the actual content of the music, I'm kind of all over the place. The majority of my stuff is various forms of rock and metal (ska, punk rock, classic rock, melodeath, metalcore, symphonic metal, for example), but I've got a fair amount of classical/symphonic stuff (Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Holst, etc.), and a sprinkling of jazz of different sorts.
Also, if it's relevant, I don't have an amp, and quite frankly I have no idea what that even is, I just see it's a word being tossed around with high-quality headphones.
Isolation isn't an issue, so open-ear designs as well as closed-ear are okay.
I feel that now is a good time to mention that I am a lowly unemployed college student, and I am pretty strictly limiting my budget to $70 for this.
I apologize if I'm asking the impossible here. Anyway, thanks in advance to anyone who helps! (or at least, to anyone who tells me I'm a delusional idiot, if that's the case!)
