Fifer;164448 Wrote: > I've owned a pair of SR-80s for 3 or 4 years now and they are excellent > headphones. I also own Sennheiser HD-650s. The HD-650s are better > phones, but not 3x better and they cost 3x as much.
Although it's worth noting that the HD-580s are available (at Amazon at least) for $125, and they're 90% of the HD-650s. This is an absolutely stunning bargain, really. That said, I wouldn't recommend those to the original poster, because they're going to need an amp to be driven by most portable players (an iRiver player made them sound okay; an iPod couldn't get them to satisfactory volume at max settings; both would have benefited enormously from an amp), and they leak sound like crazy. But incredible comfort and sound quality matching that of $3K speakers for $125 is still an attractive proposition. -- mkozlows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mkozlows's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30865 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
