Best new audiophile headphones
V-Moda's M-200 may be a wired-only headphone and one among the few wired over-ear headphones on this list. Released in late 2019, these clean and detailed sounding over-ear headphones have great sound and excellent bass response, and therefore the cushy ear cups mean they're also comfortable to wear.
Featuring 50mm drivers with neodymium magnets, CCAW voice coils and fine-tuning by Roland engineers -- V-Moda is now owned by Roland -- the M‑200 is Hi‑Res Audio-certified by the Japan Audio Society. Other V-Moda earphones tend to push the bass a touch , but this has the more neutral sound profile that you'd expect from a studio monitor headphone.
These studio-quality headphones accompany two cords, one among which features a built-in microphone for creating calls. it might be helpful if V-Moda offered Lightning or USB-C headphone cables for smartphone users.
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Open Back Design
Grado's Prestige Series SR325e
Another audiophile favorite, Grado's Prestige Series SR325e has been around for a short time -- we reviewed these over-ear headphones back in 2014. It's an open-back wired model, which suggests it leaks sound (don't use it in an open-office environment), but it delivers a number of the foremost open, detailed sound you will find at this price.
Grado, which is predicated in Brooklyn, New York, and builds most of its products there, has not changed the long-lasting exterior design of the headphones and like its SR325 predecessors (the previous model was the SR325i), his model has an equivalent firm, bowl-shaped foam pads that apply a touch more pressure to the outer edges of your ears than the more simple foam pads of the step-down SR80e, which are arguably easier .
The SR80e headphones are significantly lighter, but not of an equivalent build quality because the SR325e model. Some people like Grado's earpads (they're user-replaceable), but overall we'd say this model's comfort level isn't up to the extent of its sound quality: Comfort is sweet but not great. Read our Grado Prestige Series SR325e review.
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