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Dear Headphone audiophiles,

I want to buy the best headphones for listening to metal music. I recently purchased sE electronics The EGG speakers with amplifier and have concluded that they have way too much bass. I was disappointed when I placed a AKG K240 headphone in my Focusrite Forte usb soundcard and heard tons of details in my favorite records that I had not previously heard. I love hearing all the tiny details the artists intended us to hear. From what I have researched, any speakers/headphones that are fantastic for classical music will likely be great for metal as well (clear highs, good mids, little bass). Basically, I need headphones that make me hear everything you can possibly hear in the following albums listed below. I do not need something that 'forgives' bad recording quality. I want to hear everything the artist recorded. Do not limit your advice based on price, I'm flexible about this.

 

Metal subgenres: folk, progressive, death, neoclassical, thrash, orchestral.
Albums that I use to test quality:

Angra - Temple of shadows

Animals as leaders - The joy of motion

Annihilator - Criteria for a black widow
Arch enemy - Wages of sin
Arch enemy - Doomsday machine

Arcturus - The sham mirrors

At the gates - Slaughter of the soul

Behemoth - Demigod

Cacophony - Go off!

Carach angren - Lammendam

Catamenia - Winternight tragedies

Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (reloaded)

Children of Bodom - Follow the reaper (reloaded)

Carcass - Swansong (remastered)

Darkane - Rusted angel (remastered)

Darkane - Insanity

Death - Human (remastered 2011)

Death - Individual thought patterns (remastered 2008)

Death - Symbolic (remastered)
Death - The sound of perseverance

Decapitated - The negation

Dimmu borgir - Puritanical euphoric misanthropia
Dimmu borgir - Death cult armaggedon
Dream Theater - Black clouds and silver linings

Equilibrium - Erdentempel

Freak kitchen - Move

Gojira - The way of all flesh

Gojira - L'enfant sauvage

In flames - Colony

Jason Becker - Perpetual burn

Keep of kalessin - Armada

Lamb of God - As the palaces burn (remastered)
Lamb of God - Ashes of the wake

Lost soul - Chaostream

Marty Friedman - Dragon's kiss

Marty Friedman - Scenes

Marty Friedman - Introduction
Marty Friedman - Inferno

Megadeth - Rust in peace (remastered)

Megadeth - Countdown to extinction (remastered)

Meshuggah - Destroy erase improve (reloaded)
Meshuggah - Nothing (2006 re-recorded)

Moonsorrow - Voimasta ja kunniasta

Necrophagist - Epitaph

Neuraxis - Trilateral progression
Nevermore - This Godless endeavor

Nile - Annihilation of the wicked
Old man's child - In defiance of existence

Opeth - Blackwater park

Opeth - Deliverance

Opeth - Ghost reveries

Pantera - Cowboys from hell (remastered)

Pantera - Vulgar display of power (remastered)

Pantera - Far beyond driven (remastered)

Psycroptic - The scepter of the ancients

Ram-zet - Escape

Rhapsody of fire - Dawn of victory
Scarve - Irradiant

Septicflesh - Communion

Slayer - Seasons in the abyss

Stratovarius - Visions

Stratovarius - Destiny
Symphony X - V the new mythology suite

Symphony X - The odyssey

The faceless - Planetary duality

The forsaken - Arts of desolation

The haunted - Made me do it

Tony MacAlpine - Maximum security

Trivium - Shogun

Unleashed - Hammer Battalion

Vader - The art of war

Wintersun - Time 1

Yngwie Malmsteen - Magnum opus

Yngwie Malmsteen - Concerto suite in E flat minor op. 1

Yngwie Malmsteen - Facing the animal

Yngwie Malmsteen - Attack!!

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tl;dr, but I got as far as the subject title, so:

Stax SR007mk1 for home, if you can't use speakers.  JH16 for elsewhere, if you can't use speakers.

...also, I prefer the MK II for metal and rock'n'roll by a small margin.  And a lot of people swear by Gradoes.  Grados.  Gradoseses.  HF1 or HF2 or PS1.  Also, VTGs.

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Stax SR007mk1 for home, if you can't use speakers.  JH16 for elsewhere, if you can't use speakers.

 

What kind of speakers + amp would you recommend for metal as best, if I won't use headphones?

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If you only want to go half-assed:

Klipsch corner horns. 

 

If your room happens to lack the necessary corners for the K-horns you should get LaScala. 

 

If your room does not happen to be large enough for the any of the above mentioned speakers, get a larger room. 

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