Headphone Recommendations?

[Harpo42]

     I'm trying to find the best pair of headphones I can for under 200 bucks to be used mostly at home at my desktop computer. I'm looking at the DT770s 80 Ohm version right now and they seem like a solid pick but I'd like to know what you all would suggest as I'm relatively new to the audio game. Below are the things I am looking for in a pair of cans:

   

   Great sound quality (Not a huge bass nut but I don't mind a little inflated bass)

   Comfortable

   Closed back would be preferred but it's worth it to me if I can get better sound quality in exchange for the loss of noise isolation. I am just worried that my family would hear the music I am listening to through the wall and it would disturb them.

   Over 50 ohms (not a crazy high number because I don't have an amazing amp)
   Durable (Doesn't have to be a tank but it should be able to survive getting dropped

   

Things I really don't care about:

 

     Aesthetics

     Detachable cables, able to fold in on itself or anything else portability wise

     Gimmicks like surround sound and such

 

Any help would be highly appreciated!

 

Note: I'm aware that the Sennheiser HD 6xx's are currently at $199 on Massdrop, but sadly I don't think I will be getting my headphones within the next 2 days. Let me know if I should just wait until the next drop though, as I don't need new headphones urgently.

 

 

[orangecat]

I have a pair of HD-518's from Sennheiser and I really enjoy them. I gave a review on the forums a while back you might wanna check it out.

[Harpo42]

Will do

[orangecat]

Also there's no good reason to have high impedance headphones. The HD-518's are 50 Ohm rated and my S7 can drive them to stupidly loud levels. Personally I use an O2 from MayFlower Electronics to drive them and it obviously has more than enough power to kill the headphones. The only reason impedance would matter is if you are driving them from a portable source and in that case 16-32 ohms is what you want or you go high impedance because you're using a tube amp and the output impedance is very poor on those and a higher driver impedance helps control the sound better. For any half decent solid state amp lower impedance is probably better.

[Harpo42]

1 minute ago, Kilobytez95 said:

Also there's no good reason to have high impedance headphones. The HD-518's are 50 Ohm rated and my S7 can drive them to stupidly loud levels. Personally I use an O2 from MayFlower Electronics to drive them and it obviously has more than enough power to kill the headphones. The only reason impedance would matter is if you are driving them from a portable source and in that case 16-32 ohms is what you want or you go high impedance because you're using a tube amp and the output impedance is very poor on those and a higher driver impedance helps control the sound better. For any half decent solid state amp lower impedance is probably better.

I'd like to have a higher impedance than 32 ohms, but its not a requirement. I don't particularly want to go over 250.

[orangecat]

Just now, Harpo42 said:

I'd like to have a higher impedance than 32 ohms, but its not a requirement. I don't particularly want to go over 250.

There's really no point unless you specifically need high impedance. It's not going to improve the sound quality it's just going to limit the devices you can use the headphones with. Don't believe in all the audiophile nonsense that high impedence = better because that's only valid for some very specific use cases. I've seen some 1000+$ headphones with a lower than 32 ohm impedance and I'm pretty sure they still sound amazing on a good DAC + AMP.