hondavy
New Head-Fier
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Subscribed. I am torn between focal clear and TH900 mk2 as well.
Well, I am not too sure why? Which is what brought me here. I am a novice and for the most part there is NO store that carries this stuff to try out out.
Over in the "bass heavy cans" thread the TH900MKI/MKII are highly regarded as some of the best bass headphones you can get, albeit spendy. The focal has not been around too long, so it is hard to get a pulse on it but people are saying it is not as good for this genre and others seem to think it is ok?
I love the look of the Focal and Klipsch the Fostex in pics not so much, but who knows in person.
I highly recommend you take your music to the store and listen to them with these pair of headphone.
Genre don't help you decide your headphone, your hobbit does. Same genre in different music will gave you different feeling, it is not right or wrong, it is just your own choice. You may like wide soundstage or you like the some in front of your face, these character will be different when you compare the headphone.
If you don't have any store around you like me, you should know at least list two major thing you prefer to listen. For example, I like good soundstage, also I like accurate pushy base, so I choose th900, maybe some people just like the bass "in your face" feeling, they will choose TH-x00 or others, but basically you need to listen, and know what you want.
yeah, habit...Damn apple auto correct,lolNot all of us have a headphone hobbit telling us what to buy...
as stated, it is nearly impossible to go to a place to listen to any of these.....There is a place for the Focal, but nothing else - as AFAIK
Seattle area - if someone knows of a one stop shop that has many different TOTL head phones then I would love to know!
I listen to those genre as well, and I don't think recommending bass-head headphone is the correct recommendation always.I have spent the last 5 hours researching these 3 best I can. I am torn. I listen to mostly Hip-Hop/Rap and EDM(Progressive House). I also listen to "chill" put you to sleep music as well about 20% of the time. From my research it sounds like the MKII have a good amount of base, which I love. The Focal *might* not be good as good for this? But am reading good things if they are driven well. The HP-3 are hard to find good reviews on but seem to be somewhere in the middle? It's hard to pinpoint the best for my music tastes.
The looks go to HP-3 -> Clear->MKII IMO. I love how the Focal come with a case - they all should imo.
I will be purchasing these with the Chord Mojo AND Poly, so I am in a sense, going all out.
Thank you for any input!