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amateriat
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Jan 15, 2019
The Problem For Me: Any "one-and-done" headphone would need to handle a LOT of sources for me, from a very-little-compromise 'fi at home to fair-to-middling portable setups, as well as stuff like monitoring a lot of analog-to-digital (and a bit of analog-to-analog) conversion work. To quote the late Glen Campbell, this means a load o' compromisin'. That rules out my absolute-fave cans (Grado 325is) on account of their being an open-back design, which absolutely rules for listening indoors but doesn't cut it outdoors. So it has to be Sennheiser's HD 25-1 Mk II: it's a design that gets most things right, and where it's less-than-stellar (the soundstage thing for one), I regard it more a case of sins of omission rather than commission. Wrap it up in a seriously bulletproof/rebuildable package (with a choice of earpads to boot), and you have a set of cans you can listen to anytime, anywhere, plugged into damned near anything with a headphone jack.
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