# Help me find some good headphones!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-good-headphones/307574>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 9, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-good-headphones/307574 "2005-06-09T08:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-good-headphones/307574/21 "2005-06-11T05:39:22Z")

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> [@Hunter Hawk](#):
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> I got a pair of Sennheiser HD600 headphones from them several years ago–they had a great price and there weren’t any problems with ordering. I’d happily order from them again.

Ditto. I love my Sennheisers ( I also have a slightly older pair of 580’s for the computer ).

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> Re the Grados: I’ve tried higher-end Grado headphones; I liked the sound but thought they were really uncomfortable. I would strongly recommend wearing Grados vs. Sennheisers to check out the fit before making a purchase decision.

Also ditto. This is highly individualistic. Some people it bothers not at all and in terms of sound-quality relative to price I think lower-end Grados trump Sennheisers. But my ears were in agony after 30 minutes with some SR-60s - I ended up giving them away, despite the nice sound.

- Tamerlane

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-good-headphones/307574/22 "2005-06-11T10:19:34Z")

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Oh, great. Looks like I’m going to get a good set of 'phones at a good price then. (Remember: In the US, it isn’t how much you _spend_, it’s how much you _save_. ;)) I haven’t found any better headphones _within my pricerange_ than the Sennheiser HD-212 Pros, so I think that’s the pair I’m going to buy, and since I doubt I’ll find a _reputable_ deal lower than $60, I’m going to buy them from headroom.

(Note the italicized qualifiers. Really good cans can run $250 and up, it seems, which is more than I’m willing to spend on anything that isn’t programmable or gas-burning. And I don’t enjoy the thought of getting burned by some random eBay fraudster who’s managed to intimidate his way out of any negative feedback.)

I’ll do the deal this weekend and by Tuesday/Wednesday I’ll have some sweet headphones for my vast library of sweet music.

😃

The one big gripe I have with living where I do is that trying before I buy usually isn’t an option: Unless it’s carried in one of the big-box or mom-and-pop stores in Great Falls, Missoula, Billings, etc. I can’t buy it from a store, which forces me to shop online for all of my specialty purchases. And it seems that minimally-acceptable headphones (sealed, not utterly craptastic) _are_ specialty items in this state. Oh well.

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