Best Over the Head Headphones for Quiet

i thought i knew jimi hendrix's albums by heart, but it was like listening to a new track with these on.

amps are great, but it's great not to need one as your mp3 portable or cd player will do rather nicely.

with music: i had trouble hearing any noise outside the music, it was almost completely silent...i could turn my ipod down to around 25% of max volume and could hear every instrument and then some.

overall, turning on the switch was the same as putting in earplugs, except that when you turn on your ipod it sounds a lot better.

sennheiser has superior sound when you set to the right ipod eq setting.

yet it does hurt after wearing it for a while if you have big ears like me.also be prepared to take the headphones off every once in a while to wipe the sweat accumulating on your ear lobes!

there is only so much amplification you can get out of an ipod without a headphone amp.

also use them with an ipod and makes the crappy compressed music sound as good as it can be.

i have them running through a cheap $20 behringer ha400 headphone amp w/ 4 outputs (id recommend and amp for these to get the full effect).

i hooked these up to my ipod and they are the loudest of anything that i've hooked up to it, including a number of higher-end buds.

also they come with 1/8" and 1/4" inch headphone jack/adaptor - so you can enjoy them straight out of the ipod or connect them to your audiophile headphone amp or your professional gear.

my only major gripe about the m50s is that the 'leatherette' ear padding's do promote sweaty ears, but they offer great isolation and minimal sound leakage.