Lurking around these forums and this thread, I found a lot of good information about headphones that work well with gaming. I don't know where to ask and I don't want to be "that guy who making another 'What headphones should I get thread'", so I might as well ask here. I'm looking for an all around headphones for gaming and maybe music and movies. The details are here:
Music genres: Classical, rock, hip hop, pop, dubstep, some rap, generally anything, but heavy metal.
Gaming genres/setup: Anything really, mostly action adventure, platformers, FPS, TPS, RPGs hack n' slash, etc. Not much strategy games though, like RTS. Mostly consoles, Wii, PS3, PS2, thinking about a PC in the future.
Budget: Anything below $50 - $60 would be nice, it'll be my first headphones, so if I end up having issues with it or for some reason don't like using headphones, it would not be as much of an issue if I did spend over $100 for something I didn't like or was actually crappy, looking at you "gaming headsets".
Notes: - I'm not an audiophile by any means, well, as far as I know.
- The closest to headphones I have used would be the ones in the medical clinics where they test your hearing and earbuds, which is where my interest in using earbuds/headphones began after listening to music and stuff on Youtube.
- I used to look for "gaming headsets" which apparently after a ton of research are poor quality, high bass, only suitable for games and suck with almost everything else, branded, meaning more money for stuff that everyone buys, expensive, and have weird setups at times, when you could just plug it into a headphone jack on your TV which I found out yesterday.
- I do not care about mics, at the moment, which is why I'm looking for a set of headphones not headsets.
- I think I have issues with extremely high pitched noises, like when opening certain plastic packages, the little screeching sounds is really annoying for me.
Products already looked at: JVC HA RX700, Superlux 681 and 668B, Panasonic RP-HTF600S, Sennheiser HD201 and HD202 II (mostly as the really low cost headphones), Samson 850.
The things about the headphones I already looked at is that the 668B is out of stock from Amazon, don't know about other retailers, and most are a little bass-y, but hey, it's my first time with headphones so I shouldn't really judge, but try them out and find a reference point.