Been reading a lot into the Audio technica ATH-M70x recently and a great deal of the reviews state that the sound is great but build quality is awful. My impressions is that the M50x are built far better, which makes no sense to me as they are under half the price. Does anyone had experience of the M50x as well as the K550s? I would like a lot more bass for traveling around than what the K550s have, but I very much dislike the midbass hump that many headphones have so i hope the extra bass they have is further down the spectrum. Found an offer for £83 which is nearly £70 cheaper than my K550s were. I'm not exactly after an upgrade, but an alternative that has more bass.
I bought the K550's a few yrs back when I was
looking for a good set of closed phones.
Also bought the AT ATH50x.
Mostly I listen to open back.
So, I found that the K550's overall were just
too "thin" sounding for my tastes, no matter what music was playing.
And I felt the build quality was somewhat lacking.
The 50x's, on the other hand, are clearly very
well made at their price point. They have a
solid, robust sound (BTW the bass isn't boomy.
I sold the K550's, yet still have the AT's. My
main issue is that my ears get uncomtortably
hot when I wear them, so I listen to them very rarely.
I can recommend a couple of closed headphones: Shure SRH1540, and Sony
MDR M1ST - the latter are made in Japan mostly for distribution in Japan. You can source them quite easily, though it will likely be from a seller in Japan.