Absolute best headphones for listening to metal music

[Dusty Chalk]

Correct.  I don't know what I was thinking.

[wink]

Any one of these may fill the bill, but I'd recommend something a little more upmarket..

 

http://www.higherfi.com/spkrlist/speakerlist.php

Edited September 6, 2014 by wink

[Dusty Chalk]

[Tyll Hertsens]

[skullguise]

Just found an amp to use......it can drive the Fifth Element speakers I'm sure.....

 

 

[metalfan247]

So far, this is what I've found, but the quest has only begun since I now need to look for an equally good headphone amplifier.

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/634201/battle-of-the-flagships-58-headphones-compared-update-audeze-lcd-2-revision-2-6-4-13#user_EPILOGUE

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/715478/headphones-for-metal-music-ultimate-solution

 

http://www.themasterswitch.com/best-headphone-amps-2014

(Grace m903 reference amp)

[Dusty Chalk]

So far, this is what I've found, but the quest has only begun since I now need to look for an equally good headphone amplifier.

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/634201/battle-of-the-flagships-58-headphones-compared-update-audeze-lcd-2-revision-2-6-4-13#user_EPILOGUE

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/715478/headphones-for-metal-music-ultimate-solution

 

http://www.themasterswitch.com/best-headphone-amps-2014

(Grace m903 reference amp)

Yes, that is excellent, but if you're going to use head-fi as a reference, ... you do know they have a forum as well, right?  Why not discuss it there?

 

The Grace m903 is an excellent choice, by the way.

 

And unholy carp, that chart!  There's no way we would ever attempt anything like that, I don't think we have enough data points, much less active members willing to participate.

[Ali-Pacha]

Test track :

Ali

[DefQon]

And something to make and enjoy while listening to metal on your new cans and speakers:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTUfr-if3V0

Edited September 7, 2014 by DefQon

[Dusty Chalk]

Test track :

Ali

I could actually follow that.

[The Monkey]

So far, this is what I've found, but the quest has only begun since I now need to look for an equally good headphone amplifier.

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/634201/battle-of-the-flagships-58-headphones-compared-update-audeze-lcd-2-revision-2-6-4-13#user_EPILOGUE

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/715478/headphones-for-metal-music-ultimate-solution

 

http://www.themasterswitch.com/best-headphone-amps-2014

(Grace m903 reference amp)

 

Coming here to ask a question, then answering it yourself by posting links to another headphone forum is a shitty start.  Just fyi.

[jpelg]

IBTL:

 

Speakers so loud...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRxq-7zAw6U

[Sherwood]

Been awhile since I last saw Mahler's big flagship review.  Seems pretty on-point as far as my listening preferences go.  I also like that he owns all these simultaneously, and that he has proper amps (more or less).  OP, just read through that chart, and choose the best one you can afford.  Problem solved.

[DefQon]

Well it seems he is selling his stuff off.

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/711341/flagship-gear-sale-selling-most-of-my-stuff#post_10385819

[Wmcmanus]

You would probably get better responses if you provided a more detailed list of the kind of musicerable shit that you listen to.

[TMoney]

Been awhile since I last saw Mahler's big flagship review.  Seems pretty on-point as far as my listening preferences go.  I also like that he owns all these simultaneously, and that he has proper amps (more or less).  OP, just read through that chart, and choose the best one you can afford.  Problem solved.

 

Yeah, his review is damn impressive and pretty spot on.

 

Spamming this link and your "choose the best one you can afford" advice seems like a good default HC response to these types of inane posts.

[CarlSeibert]

Tyll, that's pretty sick. I want one. Next time the neighbor annoys me with show tunes................

[roadtonowhere08]

Holy hell, that write up from DavidMahler must have taken forever to write.  Unbelievable.

[DefQon]

Holy hell, that write up from DavidMahler must have taken forever to write.  Unbelievable.

 

Even crazier that he only bought some of those head gear to help contribute the massive review write up he made. 

[metalfan247]

Coming here to ask a question, then answering it yourself by posting links to another headphone forum is a shitty start.  Just fyi.

 

Most of the posts in my thread here haven't exactly been serious posts that are in any way informative. More trolling than anything. Therefore relying on that as an answer is completely useless and so I decided to keep looking at the same time. Notice I didn't answer my own questions yet, I've merely narrowed down the search somewhat.

[Aura]

[nikongod]

He thinks we are customer service people. 

 

We should keep him around. There is no way to be that wrong without doing some sort of performance art project. 

[acidbasement]

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!!

 

Most of the posts in my thread here haven't exactly been serious posts that are in any way informative. More trolling than anything. Therefore relying on that as an answer is completely useless and so I decided to keep looking at the same time. Notice I didn't answer my own questions yet, I've merely narrowed down the search somewhat.

 

I can't recommend headphones for you without a few hundred more examples of the albums through which you listen to your gear.

[Dusty Chalk]

[Sr Marqués]

This one?

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