Hi can you recommend a wired overeat headphones for naim uniti atom not headphone edition
What’s your budget?
I own and recommend Focal Utopia but it may well be beyond the budget of the OP. Another question for me would be how serious does the OP want to get about headphones and whether they already have a headphone amp.
Hiya
I can recommend the Meze 105AER from personal experience. Nicely balanced and easy to drive.
Recommendations are good for building a shortlist, but do remember you need to audition for yourself as they can sound very different, what one person loves another may think sounds awful, while comfort will also vary between people due to differing head size & shape etc.
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Hi
Impossible task, even without knowing your budget.
You will see a ‘show us your headphones’ thread in the HiFiCorner has over 1700 posts, and that is in large part because headphones are very personal for sound quality and also comfort. One without the other means a bad purchase.
I personally like ZMF and Grado brands from owning multiple models of each. I didn’t like the Focal, Sennheiser, and Audeze models I have heard but others will feel totally the opposite. No right or wrong.
Demo, beg or borrow some of the available choices, and see what you like. At the worst buy s/h so if they don’t suit you can sell them on*
Headphones are the single most personal component in my view so the hardest therefore to specifically recommend.
Bruce
*There’s a reason why so many lightly used headphones appear for sale!
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I’ve always said that of speakers, as of all system components they have the greatest influence on sound character of a speaker based system, but more so for headphone users due to the addition of the comfort aspect (though for some people the aesthetic factor with speakers might be as significant to them).
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Had the Meze 99 Classics in the past and they are great.
But the see the ones Jay recommends are now 25% off on the Mezze store.
But as said above never buy headphones without trying them out. And if possible for an extended period. Been there before where headphones that feel great initially start to cause pain after an hour or so.
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