Great headphones or earphones $20-$50

@jk98 wrote:

Sounds good. The JVC HAS4x is said to sound great and probably has more bass than the HAS600, although many hate how it looks. Why did they make it look so bad? To appeal to teenagers?

I just looked up that HAS4x, and to me it looks like it is aimed at the kids…the ones who just want  “moar bass”…the ones that have a couple of 15" subs in their tiny car.  I wouldn’t go near them.

I can see what you meant now about the HAS600 and the elevated bass. There have been a few songs where it did seem the mids-to-lower mids were a little recessed in comparison to the bass and the highs…not drastically so, but enough to notice. I’m not going to start tinkering with an EQ setting yet, though…I’ll give them a few more days of use before I do that.

I do think they have opened up a little bit…I don’t believe that burn-in/break in makes a big difference, like some of the head-fi.org crowd would have you believe, but I’ve caught some subtle differences with a few headphones.