Sancor
New Head-Fier
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- Aug 12, 2009
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Hey there!
I was really hoping I could figure this all out by myself and spare this forum another newbie thread, but I've reached the point where I just don't know quite what to do.
I've set aside about 200$ from my summer job to try and get this going. I plan to use the headphones primarily to listen to music. Now the hard part is I like...a LOT of different genres. The music I'm probably most enamored with is alternative rock (if you know a band called Muse, they're my all time favorite thing to listen to).
I really like the sound I get from my loudspeakers (Swan M200MKII), but I realize that it just isn't really possible to get that from headphones. From what I've read though, it seems like the closest thing to that sound would be an open headphones, which has me a bit nervous since I've never had a pair of open cans. In fact the closest thing to good headphones I've had are my super.fi 4s (which I loved for their detail and clarity until they..broke). From what I've read the Sennheiser HD595s sound to be favorites, but I've also heard really good things about almost every brand of headphone!
I've tried looking up a place to go listen to some cans, but all the stores I find on dealer lists around the Atlanta area seem to be the apple store and random sketchy sounding places whose inventories I can't search on their websites (if they have one).
I'm kind of at the point where I feel like just picking a headphone to buy since I'm new to this, but I was hoping some of you might be able to refine my search a bit. Thanks so much you guys, I really appreciate any help - I realize how frustrating these threads can be.
I was really hoping I could figure this all out by myself and spare this forum another newbie thread, but I've reached the point where I just don't know quite what to do.
I've set aside about 200$ from my summer job to try and get this going. I plan to use the headphones primarily to listen to music. Now the hard part is I like...a LOT of different genres. The music I'm probably most enamored with is alternative rock (if you know a band called Muse, they're my all time favorite thing to listen to).
I really like the sound I get from my loudspeakers (Swan M200MKII), but I realize that it just isn't really possible to get that from headphones. From what I've read though, it seems like the closest thing to that sound would be an open headphones, which has me a bit nervous since I've never had a pair of open cans. In fact the closest thing to good headphones I've had are my super.fi 4s (which I loved for their detail and clarity until they..broke). From what I've read the Sennheiser HD595s sound to be favorites, but I've also heard really good things about almost every brand of headphone!
I've tried looking up a place to go listen to some cans, but all the stores I find on dealer lists around the Atlanta area seem to be the apple store and random sketchy sounding places whose inventories I can't search on their websites (if they have one).
I'm kind of at the point where I feel like just picking a headphone to buy since I'm new to this, but I was hoping some of you might be able to refine my search a bit. Thanks so much you guys, I really appreciate any help - I realize how frustrating these threads can be.