Need help finding balanced, open, circumaural cans.
Jan 25, 2011 at 5:12 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 14
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I'm looking for a pair of open circumaural headphones that are efficient enough to be driven from a FiiO E7 (as a DAC), and possibly the FiiO E7/E9 combo in the future. My price range is around USD$200-300. Some examples of what I'm looking for are DT990's, AD900's, K702's etc. I'm making the upgrade from HD 555's so I'm not interested in the Senn's of my price range. I listen to a bit of everything so it must be versatile.
 
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks.
 
Jan 25, 2011 at 6:59 PM Post #3 of 14
Best for under 300 usd is the SR225 from Grado in my book, but those aren't circumaural
 
circumaural and not Senns; AKG K240 are pretty good allrounders on my opinion, great bang for the buck. If you'd spend a little bit more, Denon D2000's are very nice.
 
Jan 25, 2011 at 7:50 PM Post #4 of 14
Your title may be throwing us.  When you say "balanced", do you mean nice sounding with a lot of different music or do you mean xlr connectors for balanced operation?
 
 
Jan 25, 2011 at 8:15 PM Post #5 of 14
Thanks for the suggestions Proglover, I've tried a friends SR325i's with comfies but they weren't my cup of tea. I don't know much about Denon so I'll have a look into them.
 
@ bbophead, by "balanced" I mean nice sounding with most genres.
 
 
Jan 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM Post #6 of 14
HD600/HD650?
 
Jan 25, 2011 at 8:23 PM Post #10 of 14
on the other hand, there are a lot of 2nd handed hd600's on the FS forum at the moment...
 
Jan 25, 2011 at 8:24 PM Post #11 of 14
HD650's can be had for $328, only $28 over budget. maybe the OP can save up another 28 bucks. aren't the HD600 even cheaper than the 650?
 
Jan 25, 2011 at 8:24 PM Post #12 of 14
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