my personal favorite is the sony MDR-F1. i spent several trips to a
local hi-end audio store to A-B them against the other sony models
as well as koss, steinheiser, and a number others. they are open
aired and look a lot like broadcast headphones from era's gone
by. i can't find them on sony's website, and i believe they may be
being discontinued and are a bit pricy, but they are amazing true
reference headphones (unlike the sony's 7506 or the 600 which colour
the sound a lot, esp on the low end.) the only other ones that i
found close where the higher end steinheisers. i sat on the fence
for a while about which i liked better; the sony's seemed to be a
better reference - important for the studio - and the steinheiser
was a bit better for simply listening to music with your cd player
or whatnot. this was in large part due to the design of the
headphones rather then the sound.
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