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Your recommendations for cost-effective and musical sounding headphones?

This is an honest attempt to restart what was a good conversation earlier that for some reason was dismantled.

My votes are, of course, for headphones I own and enjoy, those being (in no particular order):

Sennheiser HD600
Sennheiser Momentum on ear
Grado SR225e
AKG K240

Steve
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ghosthouse
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AKG K550
inna
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By audiophile standards $700 is not much. I really like Grado RS-1. Grado 225e are 'poor man's' RS-1 - very good.

stevecham OP
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It seems that Grado, Sennheiser, AKG, Audio Technica and Beyerdynamic are
most often cited.

I listened to my old "dreadnaught" Genesis' A Trick Of The Tail remastered through my recently acquired 225e phones today and, even though I've listened hundreds of times to this recording since it came out in 1976, I heard Hackett's guitar details as never before, plus Collins' melodic percussives. Quite the musical revelation. I've got about a hundred hours of continuous playtime on these by now and they continue to improve.
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