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(In no particular order for the tiers and all subject to change)
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00:00 - Disclaimers
06:29 - Abyss
09:18 - AKG
10:09 - Audeze
20:20 - Audio Technica
23:36 - Austrian Audio
26:16 - Beyerdynamic
33:34 - Dan Clark Audio
41:13 - Denon
42:19 - Final Audio
42:24 - Focal
50:33 - Fostex
51:43 - Goldplanar
53:03 - Grado
55:01 - Harmonicdyne
57:02 - HEDD Audio
59:41 - HiFiMAN
1:09:09 - Koss
1:10:49 - Meze
1:15:21 - Moondrop
1:16:21 - Neumann
1:17:11 - Philips
1:18:12 - Raal
1:20:14 - Sendy
1:20:56 - Sennheiser
1:28:16 - Shure
1:29:06 - Sony
1:32:16 - Spirit Torino
1:33:17 - Stax
1:37:01 - TakeT
1:37:32 - Ultrasone
1:38:01 - Warwick Acoustics
1:40:05 - ZMF
1:47:19 - FINAL RESULTS
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
This was a fun concept. We of course skipped ahead to our section, but will finish the rest later. What, no "Surrounder" ranking?? What gives?!?! Haha 😉 See you all soon and Happy Holidays!
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I have made a written list below! Thank you very much for this tier list! I have had so much fun watching it and listening your opinions. Very interesting results! I noticed many people are asking for the written list so I have made one based on your list (I took average score of 3 of you so the list might be slightly different than the one you are showing to us):
S+
1. Sennheiser HE-1
2. Warwick Acoustics Bravura
3. Warwick Acoustics Aperio
S
1. Abyss Diana MR
2. Hifiman he6 OG
3. Hifiman Susvara
4. Meze Empyrean 2
6. ZMF Atrium
A
1. Abyss Diana TC
2. Abyss AB1266 Phi TC
3. Audeze MM500
4. Austrian Audio The Composer
5. DCA Aeon 2 Noir
6. DCA Corina
7. Final Audio D8000pro
8. Focal Elex
9. Focal Utopia (newer version slightly better than older)
10. HEDD Audio HEDDphone One
11. Hifiman Arya v3
12. Hifiman Arya Organic
13. HIFIMAN SHANGRI-LA jr
14. HIFIMAN SHANGRI-LA sr
15. Sennheiser HD600
16. Sennheiser HD650
17. Sennheiser HD800s
18. STAX SR-007 MK2!
19. STAX SR-X9000
20. STAX SR-L700 !
21. ZMF Auteur Classic
22. ZMF Aeolus
23. ZMF Verite Closed
24. ZMF Caldera
B
1. Abyss Diana v2
2. AKG K371
3. AKG K361
4. Audeze LCD1
5. Audeze LCD-2F
6. Audeze LCD-3F
7. Audeze LCD-4
8. Audeze LCD-X 2021+
9. Audeze LCD-XC
10. Audeze LCD-5 !
11. Audio-Technica ATH-R70x
12. DCA Aoen Closed X
13. DCA Ether Closed
14. DCA Stealth
15. Focal Clear OG
16. Focal Celestee
17. Focal Radiance
18. HarmonicDyne G200
19. HarmonicDyne Zeus
20. HEDD Audio HEDDphone Two !
21. Hifiman Sundara
22. Hifiman Edition XS
23. Hifiman he6se v2
24. Hifiman HE1000 v2
25. Meze 109pro
26. Moondrop Void
27. Raal requisite CA-1A
28. Raal SR-1B
29. Sennheiser HD580
30. Sennheiser HD660s 2
31. Shure 840
32. Sony Z1R
33. Sony MDR-V6
34. Sony 1am2
35. Spirit Torino Valkyria
36. STAX SR-009s !
37. STAX SR-L300
38. STAX SR-L500
39. ZMF Atrium Closed
40. ZMF Verite Open
C
1. AKG k612pro
2. AKG k712pro
3. Audeze LCD-GX
4. Audeze LCD-2C Classic
5. Audeze CRBN
6. Audio-Technica ATH-m40x
7. Audio-Technica adx5000 (and any other adx line)
8. Austrian Audio HI-X65
9. Beyerdynamic DT770
10. Beyerdynamic DT880
11. Beyerdynamic TYGR 300R
12. Beyerdynamic DT700 pro-x
13. Beyerdynamic DT900 pro-x
14. Dan Clark Audio Aeon Open X
15. Denon AHD-9200
16. Denon AH-D1001
17. Focal Elegia
18. Focal Clear MG
19. Focal Stellia
20. Fostex t50rp
21. Fostex t60rp
22. HarmonicDyne Helios
23. Hifiman HE-400se
24. Hifiman HE-560
25. Hifiman Ananda-Nano
26. Hifiman Ananda-Stealth
27. Koss kph30i
28. Meze Empyrean 1
29. Meze Elite
30. Moondrop Venus
31. Neumann NDH-30
32. Sandy Aiva
33. Sennheiser HD560s
34. Sennheiser HD660s
35. Sony MDR-MV1
36. Sony CD900ST
D
1. AKG k701
2. AKG k702
3. AKG 7xx
4. Audeze LCD-2 Closed
5. Audeze EL-8C
6. Audio-Technica ATH-m50x
7. Beyerdynamic Aeron Home
8. Beyerdynamic DT1990
9. DCA Ether 2
10. DCA Expanse
11. Focal Elear
12. Fostex TR-X00 Mahogany
13. Fostex TH-900
14. Fostex TH-909
15. Goldplanar AMT-1
16. Grado Hemp
17. HarmonicDyne Poseidon
18. Hifiman Deva
19. Hifiman HE1000 se
20. Koss Porta Pro
21. Koss KSC75
22. Meze 99 Classic
23. Meze Lyric
24. Neumann NDH-20
25. Neumann Ollo Audio S4X
26. Philips SHP-9500
27. Philips SHP-9600
28. Phiips x3
29. Shure 840 a
30. Sony PFR V1
31.
F
1. Beyerdynamic DT990
2. Beyerdynamic T5p
3. Beyerdynamic DT1770
4. DCA VOCE
5. Goldplanar GL2000
6. All Grado except Hemp
7. Hifiman Sundara Closed
8. Sandy Peacock
9. Shure SRH 1540
10. Sony MDR-ZX110
11. Sony MDR-M1ST
12. TakeT H2+
HTHTH
1. Austrian Audio HI-X55
2. Beats Pro
3. Beyerdynamic T1 Gen
4. Hifiman Audivina
5. Hifiman HE-R9
6. Hifiman HE-R10p
7. Moondrop Joker
8. Sennheiser HD820
9. Sennheiser HD700
10. Spirit Torino Twin Pulse
11. Ultrasone 580i
X (Not heard)
1. Denon AHD-7200
2. Denon AHD-5200
3. HarmonicDyne Athena
4. Hifiman HE1000 Stealth
You mentioned that it was 182 headphones, on my list it is less. The one with ! are the headphones got 3 different tier from all of you, so I have put them into average one. Enjoy!
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I always say I won't do a Tier List. But I feel Left out of this monster.
110 minute videos are my specialty..
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I'm crying for DMS doesn't like the 1990 anymore after I bought them based on his review. But I'm ok with it. It's been half a decade and people and their taste and perception and the technology around change. I'll still like them.
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Wish you had summarized at the end better. Maybe a scatter plot of tier vs price would be cool. Maybe also share your top picks for different budgets.
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Would love to see one on DACs and Amps! Ooooh and an updated 2023 "what would you buy list" with more price brackets.
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Loved watching this especially with the three of you guys comparing your results as a group. We need an IEM version of this please! 😊😊👏👏
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It'd be good to have a text based list. The tier list itself is one case where a picture does not infact say a thousand words (or even 1): what the name of the headphones are.
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This is a lot of fun. I enjoy these more casual, long form videos.
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Fun concept, can be a good starting guide. The only problem is that the list is pictures. Most are low res so for many I have no idea what they are! Some way of having both textual and image would make your list much more useful.
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Im glad they included Stax in this one because i was always verry curious what their opinions are of the headphones
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Since hearing my first ZMF at the Dallas CanJam I’ve been planning on a purchase so I was very pleased to hear your comments on their entire line. Thank you!
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When these type of comparisons are done it would be great to have a list and rankings listed somewhere
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loved this video thanks. I definitely learned a ton and changed my headphone goals quite a bit. Would love to see an IEM tier list collaboration someday.
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I own one S and two A tiers headphones from the list and I agree of their rankings, this also applies to the other headphones I have heard, except for the DT 1990 Pro which I rank higher, but I am older and am not sensitive to high frequencies, but the bottom line is that 95% of all people would be perfectly happy with either the HD600 or Sundara depending on personal taste.
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From what I've tried/owned, generally agree with these lists. My only exception was the Verite Closed which felt very warm/"damp" with what I can only describe as a "vignetted" soundstage. Much preferred the LCD-XC ('21) with EQ.
I'd be curious how the MySphere 3.1/3.2 would fare in these tierlists since I've only heard good things about them (often compared to the Raal SR-1b and other "earspeakers".) Also didn't see the Campfire Cascades. I personally put them at a D/F tier since they had physically painful slam for me and were quite uncomfortable with their small earcups, but they do have their following among bassheads.
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I'm glad to see this list, I'm a old head and all headphones were the wired kind when I grew up listening to music and I've always have had a nice pair. I currently own a pair of Focal Clear but going to listen to some of these in the future.
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I would love to see this list, but bucketed into price groups. This list is great, but I'd like to see how the headphones breakdown by cost. I.E. are all S-tier $1,000+ US? What are the best <=$500 headphones, ect.
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Very entertaining having you all on this - like The Avengers of headphone tier list videos.. sort of.
I haven’t heard the vast majority of these but tend to agree with most of the comments, save that the scorn for the DT series Beyerdynamics was perhaps laid undeservedly thick, and the Clear MG sounded unequivocally nicer to me than the old one, but I certainly can’t hear up to 18khz..
Hopefully you do more of these in future, perhaps also for DAC / amplifier units? One minor suggestion, it would help to have in small text in a bottom corner perhaps, the make and model of headphone being discussed at each time. I watched this a second time and was skipping to different units, when going back and forth between brands, it takes a few moments to work out which specific headphone is being discussed. Otherwise that was excellent.
Perhaps have Josh Valour or Lachlan Fennen (Passion for Sound) along too next time?
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@ResolveReviews
5 months ago
Just a couple of notes: This list was only made for passive wired headphones. No ANC or wireless headphones were included because that's a separate category and introduces different variables. IEMs also weren't included here, those are separate lists. I expect this video will get folks fired up in the comments, I'd just ask that you please give the disclaimers section a watch beforehand at 00:22 just so you have a sense of where we're coming from. One of the key takeaways from doing this exercise is that there is no definitive ranking list that's going to satisfy everyone and that we shouldn't just base our judgments or understanding of products around the opinions of a single perspective. We all have different preferences and approach this stuff differently from one another, and I think this video shows that as well. If YOU have a different opinion than we do on a given headphone, understand that this is also expected. Our opinions have also changed over time and I also imagine they will have changed again by the next time we do this. And with that in mind, remember that we're just three people on the internet talking about headphones - don't let that affect your enjoyment of stuff you love. Lastly, tier lists or rankings of any kind are highly reductive and give a particularly blunt indication of how products are received. I'm fully aware that this point may be missed when folks are watching this video. This is also the reason why I'm generally not a fan of doing singular tier lists on this stuff. There's far more to each product than just a ranking or a letter grade. But, we've been regularly asked for this list, so here it is.
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