I've struggled a lot with my poor hearing and with significant discomfort from on-ear and in-ear headsets. I've been through perhaps a dozen progressively more expensive headphones and gaming headsets, everything from Sony to Turtlebeach to Tritton to low-end audiophile headsets, but these HD650s are the only purchase I don't regret as far as headphones go.

At the recommendation of others I picked up a highly rated Fiio DAC, and I'll never look back. I never knew you could hear so much. Subtle vibrations in songs, the guitarist's fingers on the strings, even footsteps muffled by hard corners in video games. Everyone talks about "endgame" but I personally feel like I won a game I didn't even know I was playing with these amazing headphones. I intend to upgrade my 10USD computer speakers to the PreSonus Eris 3.5 monitors that were recommended to me recently, just as soon as I can remember what the name of the additional piece of hardware I needed to connect them to my Fiio K3...