a sight for sore ears

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a sight for sore ears


Audeze LCD-CX Rosewood


End the tinny tedium with luxury headphones



The world is awash with headphones, now that every new phone and most tablets come with a pair. Do your ears a favour and cast aside those buzzing, plastic in-ear freebies in favour of some proper over-ear phones.

The advantages are many. You’ll enjoy “sound isolation” — fancy talk for the fact that they’re big and snug enough to cut off the clamour of the outside world, letting you hear musical subtleties because you don’t need to crank up the volume to compensate. They’ll stay in place without you having to jam them into your ear canal, can be worn comfortably for hours, thanks to padded and adjustable headbands, and their thick cables won’t twist into the kind of knots that would challenge a Sea Scout.

You won’t get all this for less than £80 — the cost of our cheapest pair — and to enjoy real audiophile quality, you’ll need to spend £300 or more.

Audeze LCD-CX Rosewood £1,500 (above)
It’s the looks that grab you first: soft leather, and rosewood as grainy and rich as a conker. Then you play music and it’s like being in the same room as the band, thanks to planar magnetic drivers — thin plastic membranes that vibrate rapidly to create sound. Sold? Well, the cups are huge, so you may end up looking like Princess Leia.
audeze.com




Sennheiser Momentum Wireless £380 
Two modern technologies feature here: wireless Bluetooth, optimised for music reproduction; and electronic noise cancellation. There is a rechargeable battery but the cans will work just as well using the supplied cable.
en-uk.sennheiser.com


Oppo PM-3 £350 
The planar magnetic drivers found in top-end headphones can be tried here relatively cheaply. How does the Chinese company do it? Well, that’s not leather and metal you see but plastic. The sound is balanced, lifelike and — strokes chin — wonderfully spacious.
oppodigital.com


Grado SR325E £300 
America’s Grado was known for crazily expensive “cans” but is now supplying mere mortals. They’re tough, the cable is as thick as liquorice and the sound crisp and bright. Unlike all others here, though, they’re on-ear rather than over-ear, so noise isolation isn’t as good.
grado.co.uk

AKG Y50 £80 

No one will have to ask you who made this pair, but if you can live with the styling, you’ll enjoy sound far better than expected at this price, with bright, accurate reproduction rather than the artificially boosted bass common in budget brands.
uk.akg.com

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