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palmberg · Mar 6, 2002, 03:28 PM

These look and sound like very nice headphones for under $50.

I'm hoping to get my iPod soon, and I'd like to get the headphones and headphone amp at the same time, so I'm looking for recs.

idjeff · Mar 6, 2002, 04:00 PM

I bought the HD500's and they sound awesome. I believe that I started out with the 497's and returned them because too much sound escapes because of the lack of enclosure. The 500's are a little bulkier, but they sound better. I think they were around $99 or so at The Good Guys. Shop around and I'm sure you could find them cheaper. Good luck!

jetta_gt · Mar 8, 2002, 06:05 PM

buy Koss Porta Pro Jr's.

$50 bucks, Lifetime Gaurentee, Fold up to the size of an apple, best sounding headphones I've heard for under $75.

Buy 'em then tell your friends....

Stephen

P.S. Listening to the iPod with them now, sounds fantastic...

phantomdragonz · Mar 9, 2002, 11:27 PM

I have a pair of sony MDR-v700DJ's (the silvery ones) and they sounded awesome UNTIL THEY BROKE!!! in the same EXACT place aqs my friends. but I highly reccomend sony headphones and the Sennheisers are good the HD-500 are supposed to be awesome! I think i'm gonna buy a pair of those. The iPod is a high quality music player. the included headphones SUCK!!! I wil never never listen to a pair of headphones under $50 ever again after my 700's good headphones will change the way you listen to music, I guarantee it. good luck, and from my experience people who say that cheap hedphones sound good need to be shut up. they just have yet to be introduced to a good pair and to listen to thir favorite song and they will love to listen to it again and again.

P.D.

loz_kendall · Mar 10, 2002, 02:47 AM

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 490's and they are awesome headphones. However, the iPod doesn't have quite enough power to make them work as well as they can. At full volume there was some minor, but obvious clipping. I'd go for the Sony's (most models) if I was using them only for iPod. After all, not enough power plus MP3 compression (and don't tell me that MP3 is crystal clear!! Compression = less clarity, period!!!) makes it not quite good enough for top end headphones.

PS: iPod ROCKS!!! I use it every day. MP3 also rocks for what it is.

idjeff · Mar 10, 2002, 03:03 AM

What is this "clipping" you're talking about? Are you sure it's just not the Mp3's doing that? I've never heard any sound degradation due to my HD500's though. They work perfectly with both an ipod and a Ti.

Mar 10, 2002, 12:52 PM

The clipping of the amp in the iPod.

Max8319 · Mar 10, 2002, 07:41 PM

get a pair of GRADO SR-60s. can't go wrong. don't need an amp to sound great. i got the sennheiser hd 495s and they sound decent, but the grado's are better. the 495s are more durable for taking with you, but the grado's sound better. it's up to you. anyways, you got a bunch of other suggestions to choose from, but i would get the grado's of the 495s

spiky_dog · Mar 10, 2002, 07:46 PM

I'm a big fan of my Sony MDR-V6 headphones. Search on Google if you wish, or run straight to Amazon.com. From what I've seen, they're rated higher (by users) than the V600s and other sundry Sony models that have come out since the V6s.