Sound

open back is more natural sounding and has a better soundstage, you'll get the most use out of them if you try to soundwhore in video games

got them on a good deal. had the beyerdynamic 990 Pros for 10 years before that, but my chinkfi amp killed them. i am glad that i do not have to replace the cushions each year anymore with these.

I picked up a pair of dt 770s a few months ago

when I first got them I felt silly spending 200 bucks for a pair of headphones but after using pic related for 4 years they are still in pristine condition, also they are very comfortable and they sound great to my ears. The price is about the upper end of what a non audiophile should spend on general use headphones imo, but I'd say that paying a premium for comfort and good build quality is worth it if it's something you'll use daily.
Also unless you solder for the love of god get something with a detachable cable regardless of the budget, the wire is always the first thing that shits the bed (second place are the pads)

I got the dt 990, that shit can't cover my elephant ears and they would get really sore the first couple of months, must've been the metal band being so fucking closely bent at the start
also, open back might not be worthy without an amp or whatever, the real big difference that I've noticed is that I can hear the neighbour's baby crying much clearer now

I'm a big Fidelio X2 fanboy and I have been for almost 10 years. I always wondered what those sound like compared to my recently bought X2HR

This + a lapel mic

I bought some Turtle Beach Recon 70s for my PS5.

Surround setup with two 12" SVS subs, DSP, flat to 20 hz (got a house curve on that - I'm not a retard).

Audiolets have no idea what real sound is.

For me it's these. Bought Edition XS earlier because people recommended them but sadly they were dogshit. These are quite a bit better.

I just checked amazon, seems like they restocked the classic shp9500 in my country and I could've bought that instead of spending nearly 4 times more on a memerdynamics, great

I have pic rel, similar to amazing timbre and clarity, I use them daily for games and music.

I tried the 2Cs in person once and it was the single worst mid to high end headphone I've tried in my whole life. Have you tried any other headphone, or are you deaf and that headphone is the only thing that makes sense to you

my mother got at tv with its tv speakers that sound bad
to me its the most obvious thing in the world to buy speaker and you know, have the sound waves come at you the way they're intended but she just couldnt give less of a fuck

Is it some female thing that you just dont care about audio?

Should have EQed them first. I EQ all my shit and even EQ couldn't save the XS. Awful resonances. I agree that 2Cs sound like shit without EQ because of the treble dropoff. With EQ it's my favorite headphone. Sennheiser can't do bass, Abyss is a meme, Beyerdynamic has dogshit build quality and a treble peak though EQ can fix the second thing.

I like 'em open
Other than that I have Creative Gigaworks T40 Series II speakers that serve me well, too.

I think my speakers are dying, they randomly lower in volume for a bit and then go back to normal. The frequency has been increasing lately.

Is it some female thing that you just dont care about audio?

Unironically yes. Every single woman I know just uses Sony headphones or fucking Beats and for tv just get some shitty soundbar.

I think some headphones requiring EQ is a cop out, especially for a company like Audeze, but you make it work so fair enough. I personally prefer the normal 2s, with the fazer. Gives the headphone a lot more kick, which the 2Cs don't have at all

It may be basic but I've used a HyperX Cloud II for a while now. It's kind of bass-y but they sound great for the price.

equalizers exist

I remember watching a Zeos review where he compared them and I think he said that the X3 are a bit more balanced and precise but the X2HR are more "fun" (probably because of a more pronounced V shape). Of course a random guy's opinions should be taken with a grain of salt
oh, the things I could do if I wasn't an apartment rat surrounded by old people...

I think Audeze just can't tune their stuff properly since 2F is their only headphone without weird peaks or drops. I didn't like the normal 2s since I have big ears and the fazers annoyed me and 2c has more space in the earcup since it doesn't have them.

I use Sennheiser headphones.
I lost the spare headphone jack I was using to connect to my old ~1960s radio.

Zeos

His reviews are really fun but he tends to praise basically every single product he reviews. It's very rare for him to give something a bad review

I know a lot of men that don't care about good audio but I don't know a single woman that does care, even the ones with a passion for good music have mediocre setups at best

These because I don't like wires and also kind of like Rhythm games.
Also I believe these are the only headphones that can mix the audio from a PC and a Line-in, which is useful when playing games with friends. They're VERY pricey, though. And I don't really trust SteelSeries all that much.

"These because I don't like wires and also kind of like Rhythm games."

plays with wireless lag

plays lag sensitive games

yeah honeslty he's more of a hypeman than a reviewer but he has tried a ton of shit so you can usually extract tidbits of useful information from his videos, especially when it comes to understanding where two products differ

Logitech G Pro X Wireless. They are on my head most of the day so I don't want wired headphones.

they always break so now i just buy cheap IEMs from aliexpress ($20-60). can sleep with them, train with them, and they wont mess up my pretty non-balding hair

$60 chink IEMs are pretty good, any pricier and you get into diminishing returns territory

hd 560s

he doesn't live in a quiet neighborhood

ngmi

I went to Rtings looking for the cheapest but decent headphones and ended up with these. Apparently they are "open back" and I had no idea what this even meant till I tried it and now I understand why everyone hates open back. They leak out audio like crazy and block none of the noise from the outside. Not even a little bit. Even at home I can still hear birds in the distance and dogs barking, so they are really bad for immersion while playing games.

buy open back headphones

complain about noise leakage

retard

Mr. Speakers Ether C. Closed back planar magnetic headphones. I chose these specific headphones a while back because it's a very different headphone. It successfully mimics the sound of open back headphones by it's design. And whilst lacking bass because it has a more objectively neutral/balanced sound profile it still is able to reproduce some of the punchiness in lower frequencies by inserting customizable foam in the drivers. Being able to isolate noise is also a valuable thing so i don't hear my computer case fans and i can run them with aggressive fan profiles because of this. As much as i love a good open back headphone that is able to make big soundstages, sitting next to my computer case has some negative effects on it. It's insanely good for sound whoring, but the downside of that is that you can tell when mixing on songs actually sucks, sounds very detailed. Also planar magnetics have a very different and distinct sound profile. And it gets a little super human at times because you can pick up on the slightest sound of a footstep from a mile away in a game. But good headphones can't fix all of the games that have bad sound design. Which is unfortunately a lot of them nowadays since we moved past the old soundcard days of Aureal 3D which had a focus on binaural/HRTF audio and not making audio sound 2D like it sounds now. The closest we can get to that now is trying to virtually mimic a surround sound speaker setup for headphones.

sounds interesti-

$1.8k

ouch

A cheap pair of Sennheiser HD400s going by their catalogue. Paid nearly 200 bucks for this shit and it's barely holding itself together with duct tape because one of the muffs broke off.

cable finally died of years of butter fingering it

look for a replacement from some local stores

$70 for a fucking cable that isn't even in stock

Amazon wants $25 for one

buy a pair from China with no mics for $8 plus shipping

Half of the total value being made up of the cable itself is laughable. Made even more apparent because it has a pair of plastic nubs located in the phones themselves to stop you from using cheap 3.5mm alternatives. Only way you are slotting those in will be either chiseling them out with a scalpel or carving up the jacks themselves to fit.

Hijacking the thread to ask for some good, lightweight* but durable headphones for me to exercise.
* That won't fly off my head.

Inb4 Gaycons

I use the Samsung buds pro 2 with swapped tips. I hate having sweat all over my headphones when I exercise, and it's hard for them to stay on my head too

I bought the first model of the headphones a while back. I paid a hefty price back then too. The draw of it back when i bought it was that no closed back headphone (anything that isolates noise ) was capable of making sound the same way dynamic drivers do with it's specific way of using air displacement to create waves. The easiest way to describe that headphone is a driver with some kind of grill over it which allows air openings in it. Thus everything sounds bigger. Like you're in a concert hall or something, everything is more spaced out etc.
Because closed headphones are traditionally at odds with making that sound because of physical limitations, it has no room to breathe, it should never be possible for that to happen. But it does with these.

Got some modded M1060's (so they are a true LCD2 clone) hooked up to an atom amp and dac. It is breddy gud as I also have my psx and ps2 hooked in so when I boot the playstation and get the speaker destroying boot sound I can enjoy it in all of its glory.

sounds amazing, I'd buy something like that too if I had the budget for it

should come equalized properly out of the box