I need headphones that only an audiophile would love. I practically LIVE in my headphones and almost never take em off. I also dont wanna spend heaping tons of money on em tho ;w; maybe a budget of like- 100-200 I guess… I dunno what do yall recommend?
You said audiophile and then said $100-$200, those don’t match. That said both my autistic son and I use Sony WH-1000xm4, they run $250 new but you can get them on ebay for under $200 and they are pretty great. When I’m able to sit still I have a set of open back planar ribbon cans run through a USB DAC or a desktop amp but when I’m on the move I use the Sonys. The noise canceling is good enough that I can use them on my lawnmower or tractor comfortably.
I also have the XM4s, they work great. Don’t bother getting the more expensive XM5s…hardly any noticeable difference from what I could tell.
Noise cancelling and audiophile can be tough. Noise blocking… maybe Etymotic ER2XR. Easy to drive, block noise, very audiophile. I have owned a lot of headphones but these days I mostly use Airpod Pro 2. The NC is great, they are small, and sound ok. I like that the NC is easy to toggle on and off. The Etymotic headphones sound great and block lots of noise but they are hard to constantly be putting in and taking out. The cable can get annoying too.
I am waiting for Ety to make something more modern.
Either you practically live in them, or you don’t want to spend enough to get proper one. Chose.
If you need to sleep in them as well Sennheiser HD450BT or similar are good as the ear pads do not touch the dried apricot parts of your ears.
Decent sound, but the SNR is not perfect.
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If you are going to use something that much I would say don’t cheap out. I currently have a pair of Sony WH-xm3. I purchased them over 5 years ago and use them daily. They have travelled around the world twice with me and I replace the ear muffs every 2 years. I still get a good 30 hours out of them.
I’ve worn my xm3s for thousands of hours over 5+years, but have never replaced the pads. What does it do? Does it make the NR of better? Or just a comfort thing?
