Which Sennheiser headphones to get?

I listened to the PX 360 today and i was disappointed because my PX100-11 sounded better for the £30 I paid than those 360's for a great deal more....more about those PX on the link below, see my answer.

The 419 is OK, usual Sennheiser quality and a good sound for the money but the best for your varied tastes in music is the HD25.

The SP version is avoided by some because of the lower quoted specs but in truth you will need very very good equipment and finely tuned ears to be able to hear it.

To choose phones you really need to consider what level of equipment they will be used with.

Specs are not the whole story with phones, as with cameras, but numbers on bits of paper sell stuff.

Hundreds of professional photographic studios are still running with old Canon 350D 8Mb cameras as the digital workhorse but some amateurs insist on getting the latest 14Mb or even 18Mb camera because of improved 'quality', a quality which will never be attainable without proper photographic skills anyway..

More money wasted on a better neck ornament, nothing more.

That's why those 8Mb cameras are plenty good enough for the studios. They've got photographers for users, not just button pressers.

Buying a Ferrari doesn't turn you into a suddenly better driver.

In fact a lot of people are better off without one considering their poor driving.

Listening tests are far more realistic in practice in assessing headphones than just accepting a set of numbers as a guide to performance and that goes for all audio stuff, not just phones.

Also it's easy to over-buy equipment that cannot give it's best because it's used with much lesser stuff.

Complaining about the reduced specs of the SP version and then using the better version on MP3 is just plain daft because MP3 cannot match the quality the HD25 is capable of or get anywhere near it.

It's a compressed forma, with much lower quality than those phones have.

The best bargain in your list is the HD202 but the HD201 might suit you better for rock jazz etc and even classical depending on your level of playing equipment, and they are dirt cheap.

I use them myself and I can only agree with the good reviews. They are a marvel for the money.

I listen to classical, jazz, folk, and world music mainly but other genres pop up as well.,,,oops, there's a pun there somewhere.

Shop around though. Currys are selling them at idiot prices.

You can buy far cheaper elsewhere but if you quote a cheaper price from a local shop they'll check it out and then match it. They just hope people don't know and then they make more cash out of the stuff.

Links for them on here, prices and reviews.... huge list of phones on the third link, clickable

http://www.studiospares.com/headphones-studio/senn...

http://www.head-fi.org/products/sennheiser-hd-201-...

http://www.headphone.com/headphones/sennheiser-hd-...

I also have Sennheiser HD565 and HD570 for the 'proper' HiFi

Two systems with Acoustic Research and Quad preamps and main amps, Musical Fidelity CD and Acoustic Research and orginal Swiss Lenco turntables, not the modern Lenco company which just bought the name and use it on lower quality USB equipment.

.http://homepage.ntlworld.com/maddogmcq/myart/lenco...

More about the PX100 on here and some real class from B&W...pricey though....executive market phones

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj...

BOSE>>>>>>>>Sennheiser IMO my own own evaluation: Bose has significantly better bass, and is larger high quality. Sennheiser ought to have rather reliable treble reaction, yet Bose purely beats the hell out of Sennheiser. even with the indisputable fact that, Bose are rather rather extreme priced. once you're questioning about Bose, all they're reliable for is over-the-ear, which as I realize it, is what you want. even with the indisputable fact that, in case you want professional noise relief and in-ear headphones, pass for Shure little question.

i wouldnt get none of them till you read this

WHAT HI-FI 2011 HEADPHONE awards winners

http://www.whathifi.com/awards/2011/headphones

dont worry there is no skull candy or beats by monster cable crap in the link,, due to there is better headphones available for the same price

You can find good headphones and earphones at COMPAREFROGGY.

http://www.comparefroggy.com/headsets-and-earphone...