My favourite headphones ever are Grado SR60s or SR80s.
THey're open back design with a non-resonant air chamber, but they have one important adantage over everything else:
They sound better than god.
Sennheisers have ALWAYS pissed me off by boosting the bass on their headphones WAY too much, across the board. The worst offenders are HD435s and CX300s. The 435s make everything big, bassy and woolly sounding at the cost of everything else and a passable midrange and treble at best. Actual resolution of DETAIL is lacking like hell. The CX300's are a pair of ****ty ass earbuds with the bass frequencies overboosted like hell to make up for the poor design and small diaphragm. Again, detail is nowhere to be found.
Grados on the other hand? No ****ty street conscious designs, no excessive pandering to the bass heavy crowd, just flat out awesome, highly detailed and expansive sound. The bass, even on the SR60's is deep, authoritative, and extremely tight and tuneful. Want a test? Listen to Eminems 'Remember me?' on a selection of headphones. Unless your headphones can handle true bass, you'll notice that deep bassline just turns to a noncommital rumbling. Grado SR60s and 80s? You can hear every goddamn thing that bassline does in detail..
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