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SkittyOnWailord posted...

A few years ago I spent a couple weeks trying to find some good headphones. Tried all the demos I could find in shops, ranging from $100 to $800. From the major/common brands like Sony, Beats, Bose, ect. They all sounded terrible.
I ended up getting a PDP Afterglow Prismatic headset, and couldn't be happier. No idea why it sounds so much better to me than the more expensive other ones, but .

Gigantic drivers, you probably love bass or mid range. Their 50mm magnets from PDP are accounting for 95% of the cost of that headset. Means you like warm, heavy sound. A big problem for a lot of those demo showrooms (Harder to find these days outside of music stores, but I remember when Tweeters, Radioshack, Circuit City etc had them) is that they route into some BS $100 receiver through a splitter so they all sound too similar.

What I mean to say is, depending on the cost or ohms or both, most headsets sound remarkably identical until you get more power behind them through an amp or DAC, but splurging on that cost is a "risk" if you don't know the kind of profile you're getting beforehand. You could drop 2k on a soundstage and /hate/ it, if you hate crisp highs and low volume mixes, for example.