Audiophilia

[Sforza]

EDIT: I'll probably end up selling these, and investing in a really good pair like Sennheisers or even a Grado.

Those AT's look like SJ5s. Is there a new model of those out?

About Senns, the better quality models usually need headphone amps if you're going to listen to them on a portable player (because of the bigger drivers).

All Grados are open back headphones which allows sound to leak in, so they're not useful in public. Everyone has aircons in this country so that's a bother too.

Arguably the best portable headphones right now are the ATH-ESW9A


I have a pair of Grado SR80's (they're awesome) if you'd like to try listening to them sometime. For gaming and sound isolation I've been using ATH-m40fs. For portables, I use the ATH-FC700s. The FC700s were surprisingly good for their price.

On my to buy list now are Denon's AH-D5000 and AKG 701s

Edit: I'm a bit of a headphone geek.