[kenken]

I am looking for a pair of closed headphones around 100-200 dollars. 
Noise cancelling would be helpful but not needed. I am looking for very good sound for the price. I will be using these for bus and airplane trips but also every day doing homework. Looking for good balance and accurate and good highs and lows. A good balanced bass would be nice too. I listen to a lot of pop, r&b and hiphop. I currently own the sony mdr v-6 and am looking for am upgrade. 
Some headphones I have looked at and have heard about are
audio technica ath- m50
audio technica ath-anc7B
JVC Hanc250
Bose quietcomfort 15
Sennheiser (no specific model yet)
Can anyone compare these or recommend others. Please help me find some good sounding headphones with decent isolation/ noise cancellation. Willing to go a bit outside my price range as well.
Thank you!

 

[Sephiroth619]

I own the Audio Technica ATH-M50 and so have a lot of people on this board. They're highly recommended.
 
I think they sound great!

 

[jerg]

ATH-M50 FOTM (flavor of the millennium) hype train ahoy!
 
Now that that is out of the way, in your list OP those are by far the best. There is a reason why these are over-hyped - most noobs who come here asking for $100~$200 cans walk away with M50s and are satisfied for a looong while before they even think about upgrading further.

 

[Germancub]

Head-fi should be renamed M50-fi. -rolls eyes- To the OP, do you have somewhere where they might stock production equipment, like guitar center if you're in America?. Hearing for yourself is usually the best way since everybody is different. I personally can't stand M50s anymore.

 

[MrBapti]

yes, m50s seem to suit all your needs
 
your basically like describing its sound sig

 

[Germancub]

yes, m50s seem to suit all your needs
 
your basically like describing its sound sig

I don't remember seeing thin deficient midrange with a midbass bloat anywhere, could be mistaken though. Lol.

 

[MrBapti]

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yes, m50s seem to suit all your needs
 
your basically like describing its sound sig

I don't remember seeing thin deficient midrange with a midbass bloat anywhere, could be mistaken though. Lol.

D oh yea, forgot about that
 
oh well, the OP didn't really mention midrange so..
 
 

 

[kenken]

midrange would b nice either
but if the m50 arent the best then do you guys have any recommenations as to what headphones have the best sound quality that 200 dollars can buy?

 

[Germancub]

In my opinion, the Shure SRH840. They're very accurate, balanced, easy to drive and for most people, very comfortable.

 

[FearSC549]

Wow you guys are unbelieveable. M50 M50 M50 M50....M50 is NOT always the best headphone in the $100-200 range so can you guys stop recommending it? I'm 90% sure the people who recommends the M50 only heard the M50 before and some crappy headphone, which makes them think M50 is the best. 
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I am looking for a pair of closed headphones around 100-200 dollars. 
Noise cancelling would be helpful but not needed. I am looking for very good sound for the price. I will be using these for bus and airplane trips but also every day doing homework. Looking for good balance and accurate and good highs and lows. A good balanced bass would be nice too. I listen to a lot of pop, r&b and hiphop. I currently own the sony mdr v-6 and am looking for am upgrade. 
Some headphones I have looked at and have heard about are
audio technica ath- m50
audio technica ath-anc7B
JVC Hanc250
Bose quietcomfort 15
Sennheiser (no specific model yet)
Can anyone compare these or recommend others. Please help me find some good sounding headphones with decent isolation/ noise cancellation. Willing to go a bit outside my price range as well.
Thank you!

According to your music preference, it seems like mids will be important. M50 does not sound that great with your genre of music because of the slight V-shaped sound signature(I have the M50 so don't ask). 
 

 

[jerg]

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Wow you guys are unbelieveable. M50 M50 M50 M50....M50 is NOT always the best headphone in the $100-200 range so can you guys stop recommending it? I'm 90% sure the people who recommends the M50 only heard the M50 before and some crappy headphone, which makes them think M50 is the best. 
According to your music preference, it seems like mids will be important. M50 does not sound that great with your genre of music because of the slight V-shaped sound signature(I have the M50 so don't ask). 
 

Bass is equally as important especially for R&B and Rap genres; also M50's slight upper-mids recess is minuscule and can be easily negated with some precise parametric equalizing (see the big "headphone equalizing" thread), what it DOES have is great treble and even better bass for that price-range. Few can beat its bass in terms of raw amount, depth, and clarity as a whole.

 

[TMRaven]

If you ask me, pop, r&b and hiphop scream for a bit of a smile curve.  M50 might not provide the adequate amount of punch a lot of pop and hiphop sometimes ask for, but it still has a full-bodied bass that extends real low.
 
 

 

[Germancub]

I give up. I can't believe how overrated those hollow sounding M50s have become since i left.

 

[jerg]

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I give up. I can't believe how overrated those hollow sounding M50s have become since i left.

If "hollow sounding" is an appropriate adjective for describing M50's mids, there would be some wild obscenities flying around describing itty-bitty flaws of most budget headphones here at head-fi. Exaggerations, exaggerations.

 

[TMRaven]

No reason to be a sensationalist about the sound of the M50s, that sorta goes hand-in-hand with the many people who overhype them, don't you say?