Headphones for gaming, music and isolation

[Schadenfroh]

Greetings,

Going to be moving into an apartment this summer and my Sennheiser HD212 Pros are aging. I need something that can isolate me from the noise around my apartment as I enjoy TV, music or PC gaming. My home entertainment system will be my PC (no TV or stereo system, DVD player / TV tuner / FM tuner on the PC). The sound card is an Audigy 2 ZS and my budget is <$150. I do not want to deal with an amp, so it would need to just hook directly into my Audigy 2 ZS.

Thanks

 

[aphex]

Denon D2000 is a bit above your budget (~$200), but gets my whole hearted recommendation.

Awesome Awesome Awesome headphones (believe me, i've been through WAY too many headphones over the past few years). Like music sex pillows on your ears. I can wear them for 8+ hours at a time and they never make my ears or head ache, in fact I usually forget i'm wearing them after 2-3 minutes. I'm all about comfort, and the D2000's are top notch. Although they sweeten up and grow some big beefy balls with a nice amp, they also do amazingly well without an amp. VERY deep bass without overpowering, strong mids and good highs (but not piercing). I've yet to find a genre that doesn't sound good with these babies.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: aphex
Denon D2000 is a bit above your budget (~$200), but gets my whole hearted recommendation.

Those puppies sure have spiked in price, they are $300+ on Amazon:Q

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: aphex
Denon D2000 is a bit above your budget (~$200), but gets my whole hearted recommendation.

Those puppies sure have spiked in price, they are $300+ on Amazon:Q

Yeah, buy.com used to have them OOS for 200$. Now they don't even bother listing a price.

 

[moonboy403]

Audio Technica's AT M50 have been getting good reviews on head-fi recently and it's priced around your price range. You might want to check that out.

There's also Beyer DT770 around your price range too.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: moonboy403
Audio Technica's AT M50 have been getting good reviews on head-fi recently and it's priced around your price range. You might want to check that out.

There's also Beyer DT770 around your price range too.

Problem with the DT770 is even the 80 ohm model doesn't do too well without an amp IMO. I've owned both the DT770 80ohm and DT770 250ohm, the 80 kicked the daylights out of the 250, but neither did well unamped. Great headphone though.