[bee_rider]

If you were going to consider Bose, you should at least take a look at Sennheiser. They are similar in a “can’t really go too wrong” sense. Nice build quality, generally pretty flat and analytical usually.

They are such a standard response that presumably a real audiophile will come along to point out that their favorite model is much better, than a particular well known Sennheiser model, but as far as one can say in brand terms they are solid.

[DiabloD3]

Sennheiser sold out to a Chinese factory, and recently even stopped producing their flagship stuff in-house. They're even shutting their "cheap" Irish factory down (where modern HD650s and HD660Ss were made).

All the Chinese-made Sennheiser stuff has awful QA.

[dundundundun]

I loathe analytical sound. It destroys all listening pleasure for me. Give me nice warm coloured midtones and I'm happy!