werdnaq
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Hi, all! I've spent a few days parsing through the archives, but I was wondering if I might draw directly on your expertise.
Let me run down the characteristics I'm looking for in my new pair of cans:
Thank you SO MUCH in advance for your kind assistance.
Let me run down the characteristics I'm looking for in my new pair of cans:
- About $100-150, could stretch to circa $175
- Used for home and dorm room listening. "On the go" only in the sense for air trips, college library for hours-long study sessions, etc. No street use or public transit or anything (KSC-75s!)
- I don't want to leak sound, or else I probably would have just bought MS-1s already. I need to be able to use these in a dorm room or library setting.
- Isolation is less of a concern than leakage, but it would be nice.
- It seems like the D1001 is great all-around, don't leak but let sound in. Should I settle for this and abandon the notion of stretching these "all-purpose" phones to airplanes, etc?
- I'm also considering heavily the HD25-1.
- I was previously considering the AT A700, but it seems like they are less-highly regarded than these other models?
- Assuming I could grab the Beyerdynamic DT-770 in my price range, or stretch the budget, how do those cans compare to these others?
- Comfort is def. an issue, since I'll be wearing these for hours of studying. I also sometimes wear reading glasses, so I'd like cans either not insanely tight or with a workaround for that.
- I have already purchased (waiting to ship) a $40 Cmoy off eBay (solid reviews and everything), and I anticipate being able to use this wherever I'd need to use the phones. So unamped performance doesn't even really need to be considered, I guess.
- I listen primarily to jazz, pop, and rock with some hip-hop. I want something that doesn't scrimp on the mids, I need some bass presence but I'm more interested in accuracy than boom. Basically, just the usual in terms of listening material.
Thank you SO MUCH in advance for your kind assistance.