PFULMTL
100+ Head-Fier
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I don't think there is a perfect or best headphone,only better and badass.
Are there perfect headphones in this world? Yes there are, but not in the sense that I , or someone else, can point directly at a single set. This notion of perfect may possibly never exist, due to the immense variance of listening taste of people.
But, you said there are perfect headphones.
I did say that for one reason alone. They are the ones you will pick 60% of the, all the time. The ones you start miss, when you don't have them on your person. The ones you suggest the most to noobs like me. The ones you cry over when they break.
Well I can go at this all day, but I think you get the point.
Yes, but your perfect headphones are not likely to be my perfect headphones. I will likely cry over the demise of another pair. To me, the original question posits that there might be a perfect pair for everyone. Clearly, there is not.
I guess if you want to look at it that way you can go by the sheer numbers of what headphone gets suggested most by a set number of people.
But the point is, I don't look at it that way. However, I am assuming the OP was asking for an answer to what would be the perfect headphone for everyone. I could be wrong. I have a number of headphones because they all respond differently to different types of music. Some of those are on the list of the top-suggested headphones. But while I enjoy them all, none is "perfect" for me. What is "perfect" for a female jazz vocalist is not "perfect" for rock, for instance. What is "perfect" for orchestral music may not be "perfect" for dubstep. And the list goes on. Add to the mix the fact that I like some of my headphones better with particular amps and dacs, and the notion of "perfect" slides further into obscurity.
The perfect headphone, sound-wise, is the one whose frequency response you best know how to change.