gofar99 Messages: 1947 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
Illuminati (5th Degree)
Hi, Unfortunately, Beats have a considerable bit of hype. Better to save a bunch of $$ and get other phones. For both over the ear and in the ear I use Sennheisers. The over the ear ones are model HD280pro. Inexpensive and quite good. Others further up the line are even better but IMO not really worth the cost. For in the ear I use their CX300/II. There is probably a newer version of it. They really sound great, don't cost too much and are comfortable. Depending on your budget and tastes there are ones from Grado that are rather good as well as many other companies. I saw a while back (about a year) a huge comparison of phones. All types and prices that were rated on sound quality and cost. I don't have a link for it but I suspect a search would turn it up. It was quite enlightening. Many costly phones didn't fare well and many more modest ones were highly ranked for their sound quality.