Headphones

[N7Tex]

Hey I was wondering what site is a good place to buy and look at headphones, I am looking for over the ear headphones

[jackieAZ]

The site I've generally relied on for that is head-fi; that's where you'll find a no chunk of the audiophile community and in my experience what they tell you is generally right 

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, WubGuy said:

The site I've generally relied on for that is head-fi; that's where you'll find a no chunk of the audiophile community and in my experience what they tell you is generally right 

 

FYI directing people to head-fi when they come here for help is not helpful and frowned upon. I'm not even going to get into how much of a clusterfuck head-fi can be, especially for n00bs.

 

To answer to OP, there is no best chain store for this. Your best bet is to look up hi-fi stores in your area and hopefully they'll have a selection of headphones to try.

 

The recommendation thread here has ideas of what to look for.

[jackieAZ]

4 minutes ago, SSL said:

 

FYI directing people to head-fi when they come here for help is not helpful and frowned upon. I'm not even going to get into how much of a clusterfuck head-fi can be, especially for n00bs.

 

To answer to OP, there is no best chain store for this. Your best bet is to look up hi-fi stores in your area and hopefully they'll have a selection of headphones to try.

 

The recommendation thread here has ideas of what to look for.

Woah mate, take it down a notch. He specifically asked for sites to look at, so I gave him one I knew of. It's fine if you don't personally like that site, but I'm just answering the post.

[Dackzy]

OP how can we recommend a place to look at headphones ans buy them when we have no idea where you are in the world, you would have to find a person that lives in the same area as you on this forum and that person would have to be into audio. Just do a google search and find the headphone stores around you. PS. @WubGuy Head-Fi is not very noob friendly, they have way too much snake oil on that forum for a noob, you need to be very experienced in the audio field, so you don't fall for the snake oil and it is not like they know that much when it comes to it, I sometimes use head-fi, but a lot of the time I end up correcting them instead of getting help, if I need help.

[jackieAZ]

2 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

OP how can we recommend a place to look at headphones ans buy them when we have no idea where you are in the world, you would have to find a person that lives in the same area as you on this forum and that person would have to be into audio. Just do a google search and find the headphone stores around you. PS. @WubGuy Head-Fi is not very noob friendly, they have way too much snake oil on that forum for a noob, you need to be very experienced in the audio field, so you don't fall for the snake oil and it is not like they know that much when it comes to it, I sometimes use head-fi, but a lot of the time I end up correcting them instead of getting help, if I need help.

Fair enough, and I also I should admit fault that I overlooked ops notes about gaming when recommending ath-m50x as they aren't that good for gaming 

[Guest]

55 minutes ago, WubGuy said:

Woah mate, take it down a notch. He specifically asked for sites to look at, so I gave him one I knew of. It's fine if you don't personally like that site, but I'm just answering the post.

 

I know it's fine if I "personally" don't like head-fi. I'm not sure why that would warrant me taking anything down any number of notches.

[jackieAZ]

8 hours ago, SSL said:

 

I know it's fine if I "personally" don't like head-fi. I'm not sure why that would warrant me taking anything down any number of notches.

 

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"FYI directing people to head-fi when they come here for help is not helpful and frowned upon."

That was the part I was referring to. The OP asked for website recommendations:

 

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" Hey I was wondering what site is a good place to buy and look at headphones "

 

[N7Tex]

I live in a small town in wisconsin so I was wondering about websites to buy and look online.

P.S. I own and enjoy my sennheiser hd 202s but I was looking for something better.

[Guest]

9 hours ago, WubGuy said:

That was the part I was referring to. The OP asked for website recommendations:

 

3 hours ago, N7Tex said:

I live in a small town in wisconsin so I was wondering about websites to buy and look online.

P.S. I own and enjoy my sennheiser hd 202s but I was looking for something better.

 

The classifieds on head-fi can be a good place to find used gear.

 

[KaminKevCrew]

8 hours ago, N7Tex said:

I live in a small town in wisconsin so I was wondering about websites to buy and look online.

P.S. I own and enjoy my sennheiser hd 202s but I was looking for something better.

Sonic electronix has a pretty good selection of high end headphones. I wouldn't buy from them though, unless you get one of the bundles, as their stand alone headphones tend to cost the same as their bundles which include the same headphones, and you can generally find a better price elsewhere.