[Moonwalker]

Here are my first headphones that surprised me how good it can sound: Koss Porta Pro (8 years ago).

Really first were some PAN-AM (after flight throw away) headphones I got as present from old friend. - thanx to him for starting this way of still-better 'phones searching! It's so fine...

Only my credit suffers.. Ha!

Bye ... and nice weekend!!!!
...Moonwalker

 

[pearle]

The HD580s, later upgraded with a red Clou. Blew me completely away. I've since bought RS-1s but I find myself enjoying the HD580s more at the moment.

- pearle

 

[Braver]

mx500

showed me the light!

 

[gloco]

Denon AHD-350's were my realy first pair of quality cans....then they broke on me (twice!).

George

 

[chych]

For me it was the Grado SR-80. I'm far away from them now (literally) and have since upgraded to the Etymotics.

 

[KR...]

Grado SR-60

I still have them and enjoy them along with my other headphones.

 

[dhwilkin]

580s, and they're still my go-to headphones.

 

[bootman]

1st real good cans?

The grado SR-225

 

[roll-man]

1978...8th Grade graduation present...Those Sennheiser's with the bright yellow foam pads...listening to Jeff Beck's "Blow by Blow"...ecstasy!

 

[MooGoesTheCow]

Grado SR80. Maybe 6 years ago? I loved em to death

Literally. They died.

 

[Neruda]

Quote:

Originally posted by roll-man 1978...8th Grade graduation present...Those Sennheiser's with the bright yellow foam pads...

ahh, the HD414's! I have a pair of those currently on loan...

Well, for me, it was the sportapro. after weeks of arguing with the guys at headwize more than a year ago, I decided I had to listen to them. I bought the sportas, and was amazed. After them it was the KSC-35's, then the Grado SR80's, and now the K401's. Life is good.

 

[gorgon_123]

well..... 2 years ago i bought the Koss TD/65 on a whim and was completely blown away. I had never experienced music so intimately before. Last June I took the plunge and spent some "real" money on cans and got my beloved Beyer DT250's. Now I can't even listen to my Koss.... the bass is unbelievably muddy, it drowns out all the other sound. What was I thinking?

 

[jude]

My first good 'phones were Sony MDR-V6's, way back around 1985 or 1986.

 

[mcbiff]

My first pair of good 'phones were (as for many others) Grado SR80s. Then I went to the SR325s before settling in with the CD3ks.

Before I got the SR80s my primary 'phones were the dreadful Senn HD490s and before that I owned classics such as the Senn HD433s (they suck, a lot) and the Sony MDR-CD300 (yeah, they suck).

 

[MacDEF]

Well, I actually had a pair of the older version of the Koss PortaPro when I was about 10 years old (as a gift from a relative to replace a set of broken ones from a Walkman) -- I just didn't appreciate them back then

13 years later I bought a pair of SR60, so I guess those were my first "I bought these because they're great" headphones.