Anyways, I got the Audio Technica M50x headphones. The sound quality is excellent and the ear cups are comfy, but the top isn't. I have to take them off and give my skull a rest after an hour. Seems like a stupid thing to overlook. Just pad it with better materials that cost an extra dollar per pair. Oh well.
I had this problem too when I first got mine - moved the top band just a little bit more forward and after a couple hours of getting used to them, they've been comfy for the last year+ now. I've moved 4 guys in my office over to M50x's from their crappy Beats and Bose headphones - really can't beat the Audio Technica's, especially for the price. I pair mine with a FiiO amp with a slight bass boost (hardware bass boost circuit, not EQ/software) and they really thump for regular listening volumes (fall a bit short when you really pump them up...but I shouldn't ever listen to them that loud for more than 5 minutes anyway so no big loss).
On another topic, has anybody used Focal speakers before? Supposed to be very good quality, and I just picked up the Focal Sib and Cub 5.1 set and don't know if I don't like the speakers, don't like the receiver (Marantz NR1608, also new) -or how the receiver processes my sound, or don't like the quality of some of my audio recordings (all 320kbps MP3's) I have or what...some songs which sound great on my headphones, and sound like they have a really high quality of production and such, just don't sound good on my new system whatsoever...
Hard to explain what sounds bad about it. Like the MP3 is a crappy 64kbps rip from the early days of the internet. No clear separation of bass and treble and vocals - little bit echo-ish. I'm so new to modern receivers (last one was from like ~1995), I don't even know where to start with tweaking the speakers. Everything is run through my Mac Mini and iTunes (which has sounded great with two other speaker/receiver sets, headphones, etc.).
