5 Favorite Closed-Back Headphones
Why 5 and not 10?
I can’t currently name 10 closed-back headphones I would be willing to spend my money on, at least not again, for the purposes of just listening to and enjoying music with.
- ZMF Vérité Closed
- Focal Stellia
- Sennheiser HD820
- ZMF Eikon
- Focal Elegia
The Next Three ...
- Dan Clark Audio AEON Flow Closed 2
- Sony MDR-Z1R
- Fostex TH-900 MK2
The Sony here is just so warm, and the bass is really not well controlled, bloomy and gets into the lower-mids, that while an situationally enjoyable “guilty pleasure” listen, it really only works well with the WM1A/WM1Z and TA-ZH1ES, for me.
And the Fostex is so peaky and the treble so prominent, that its also relegated to short bouts of listening, with very specific music, and even then really needs the pads off the 610 to be usable.
I haven’t head the ZMF Atticus at enough length to rate it … though that’ll change in the very near future.
Assume similar caveats here as for this post on DACs.