My secret weapon for headphones is to buy pro audio/studio headphones. Their market just won't let them get away with gimmicks. If you want closed back (recomm

My secret weapon for headphones is to buy pro audio/studio headphones. Their market just won't let them get away with gimmicks. If you want closed back (recommended for office listening - keeps noise in an out) get AKG k550/k553 (negligibly different editions of the same thing) If you want open back (scary accurate but bleeds sound like crazy) get a pair of Grados, the lower end ones like the 65 will do fine. I say this with love, but those headphones ruined some records for me. You can tell where they cut vocal takes on major label records because the noise floor drops. Crazy stuff.