teofilrocks
500+ Head-Fier
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And that's the thing about headphones. They are probably the only audio component where sound quality is not the only consideration. Comfort is right up there, for me at least.
Comfort is perhaps even more important than sound quality for me. If it's not comfortable, it won't stay on my head in the end. In that way I've been totally spoiled by starting with Beyerdynamic and now moving to Sennheiser — it's hard to find other headphones comfortable. I've bought, and sold, the HE-400 twice mostly because of it's inability to cross my comfort threshold and returned other headphones promptly for the same reason. And now I'm trying out the TH600, and the thinner headband padding and non-velour earpads are making it distracting to listen to. I put on the HD650 again and everything in the world feels right. Which is silly, but there it is.