Headphones for Music

[Steven Rimmington]

Wanting to try and enjoy music a little more, I currently use a set of PS4 Gold Headphones they sound ok to me, but want something with more 'sound' or louder if that makes sense? I Have a B450M Motar Max Mobo and a pair of Alesis Elevate 3 Speakers with a headphone out that I use, I am unsure if I need an external amplifier as well?

I have around £500 to spend, the last good headphones I had was some Sennheiser HD595 in 2009 but they have long since broke!

Probably asked a million times, sorry.

 

[Steven Rimmington]

I guess those are wireless ones?
Which means they're using their own (propably cheapest working) circuitry to power them.
Wired gaming heaphones tend to be made to work on potato outputs without much of "beef" behind and shouldn't need much of output voltage to play loud.
While many higher end headphones again have higher impedance and are intended for sources capable to giving out more voltage.

Though if you're using them through speakers, there's likely no real headphone amplifier in them.
Even lots of AVRs use cheap&dirty method of taking headphone output from speaker amplifier using multi hundred ohm resistors to drop voltage to safe for headphone level.
That always makes electric damping factor bad.


Was first warning of problems something dropping to table?
That mechanical design is just designed all for show and not for durability with stresses fast starting to break bling bling plastics.

They are wireless yes but I use the corded wire as I have more control in the amplifier settings on my sound card when connected to the wireless dongle you can only set the windows normal settings like 'bass boost' Loudness equalization' ...

Yes the plastic cracked on both sides, resulting in me using gaffa tape