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Well, do they have a good reputation for headphones?

How bout Koss?

I'm using Koss headphones right now. They're ok, but not spectacular.

I had Jensen headphones earlier this year, but the right phone stopped working and I couldn't trade in because the company went out of business. Those were great headphones until they stopped working.

The brand itself rarely says anything unless its one of the "big" ones like Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Grado, et. al.

Panasonic probably makes some decent ones, Koss makes good and bad ones, etc.

I have a pair of Panasonic Studio Monitor headphones. I like them so much that I had my sister buy me a new pair after she chewed the wires on the old pair.

If it's headphones for a CD/mp3 player you want, it's hard to find a better brand then Pioneer. Great quality for a good price.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:If it's headphones for a CD/mp3 player you want, it's hard to find a better brand then Pioneer. Great quality for a good price.

/waits for aerius to arrive to educate the lot of you on headphones

phongn wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:If it's headphones for a CD/mp3 player you want, it's hard to find a better brand then Pioneer. Great quality for a good price.

/waits for aerius to arrive to educate the lot of you on headphones

Ah, yes. The poor student who has $400 headphones.

phongn wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:If it's headphones for a CD/mp3 player you want, it's hard to find a better brand then Pioneer. Great quality for a good price.

/waits for aerius to arrive to educate the lot of you on headphones

Excuse me, but I don't want to spend more on headphones then I spend on what I am plugging it into.

Never said that. Koss's PortaPro and SportaPros are very well regarded for the money, however, though they're a bit more than the average headphone in price.

YT300000 wrote:

phongn wrote:/waits for aerius to arrive to educate the lot of you on headphones

Ah, yes. The poor student who has $400 headphones.

It's all about priorities. I figure that since my CD collection is worth a few thousand bucks I might as well have something good to enjoy the music on. After going to some live concerts I realized how much my previous equipment was sucking and how much I was missing out on, so I went and did something about it.

phongn wrote:Koss's PortaPro and SportaPros are very well regarded for the money, however, though they're a bit more than the average headphone in price.

Both of those are good solid entry level headphones.

Sennheiser also makes some nice 'phones in the Porta/SportaPro price range, look into the PX-200 and PX-100 headphones from them. They've been getting good reviews on headfi and are priced at 40-50 bucks. Going up about 10 bucks gets you the Sennheiser 497 which is the successor the to excellent Senn 495 which I own.

The only problem with the PortaPros is they can get caught in your hair - my sisters' only complains about them - the SportaPro doesn't have that problem but doesn't sound quite as good.

I wish someone reviewed cheap earbuds out there for those of us who can't afford SR60's or even SR40's / PortaPros or go on the move often. The only earbuds we have much information on are the MDR-888's, 838, EX-70, and Sennheiser MX series (good enough for anymore except us remote addicted kids who want shorter cords). Ears can be so subjective, especially on webforums like Head-fi.

By the way, how do the 495's sound amped by a portable?

Most cheap earbud phones sound like crap, you really can't get decent quality for low manufacture cost on something that small.

Head-fi has its own share of BS, of course (esp. the whole "ooh! cable y makes x sound better") but is generally a good source.

If price indicates sound quality, these are the best headphones in the world. $14,900.00 US.

IIRC, most of the cost is actually in that amp, and I somehow doubt it sounds as much as it costs

Ypoknons wrote:By the way, how do the 495's sound amped by a portable?

Pretty darn good actually. Good clean sound though the bass doesn't sound quite as clear as the rest of the frequency range, but it's still better than most of what's out there. Plugging them into an amp (go go gadget Gilmore!) fixes that problem up. For portable use they're great as long as you don't bounce around too much since they don't clamp to your head all that tight. Jogging with them is probably not a good idea. They're nice light headphones and sound quite good, think of them as the baby brother of the Senn 580 and you're not far off.