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