Thusly Alex Rodriguez Spake Unto All:

You may want to listen to Grado SR80's.

Cheers. On the list they go.

Today I visited half a dozen stereo/electronics shops in a ten-mile
radius around here, and it was actually worse than I'd thought: there
were three brands available (Philips, Sennheiser, and Sony). All the
Sonys were low-end models intended for walkman type mobile stereos,
but there were a big spread in the Philips models.

The highest-end Philips I found were the HP-1000 and HP-890. They were
quite pricy, are they any good?

(I rembember a Philips HP 800 I tried years ago, and as I recall it
was horribly uncomfortable, with what can only be described as a
'vice-like grip', and had painful, tinny, *screeching*, treble.)