Want pure, "cold" highs with polite bass get Azurys. Want smoothness and natural voice with rolled off bass* by default, take T70 and make easy TP mode to reduce 8k peak.(Used or 70p if not sure you can drive 250 Ohm on the go. (but I wont recommend low impedance for realisitic voice representation, it wont be that fluid. ). Want best bass and other fr on medium quality take Ultrasone Pure, but replace cable on some 20$ silver and swap pads on akg 371 velour. If you want most open sound in closed back format - grab SR7000. If non of that - get denon 7200 used, render everything more than just medium quality. Also Ft1 good to consider as most bang for the buck option.
Also you can find Noire 2 used under 500 in theory, but I wont recommend them, cause bass is too lean and slow, that critical and cant be fixed.
So the "best" will be that you prefer more or wich combo you need. I think there is no Harman closed back headphones under 500$ and even under 900$ that could be called really good or without huge several downsides or one extreme, like mentioned above. Even some Audeze Maxwell, or Dyson Ontrack got critical flaws, even if they measure very close to Harman, better than mentioned above. For example Maxwell are damn heavy - 500+ gramms, its just nonsense if you an averege person, not some sportsmen and also their driver is very fragile and breaks a lot. OnTrac are wireless without Hi-res codecs like Aptx and also weight a lot 450* and no wired measurments, but they could be used wired, but with 24bit limit 192khz. (its decent). So, yeah, closed back world its world of compromises and subjective taste in the end.
Also you can find Noire 2 used under 500 in theory, but I wont recommend them, cause bass is too lean and slow, that critical and cant be fixed.
So the "best" will be that you prefer more or wich combo you need. I think there is no Harman closed back headphones under 500$ and even under 900$ that could be called really good or without huge several downsides or one extreme, like mentioned above. Even some Audeze Maxwell, or Dyson Ontrack got critical flaws, even if they measure very close to Harman, better than mentioned above. For example Maxwell are damn heavy - 500+ gramms, its just nonsense if you an averege person, not some sportsmen and also their driver is very fragile and breaks a lot. OnTrac are wireless without Hi-res codecs like Aptx and also weight a lot 450* and no wired measurments, but they could be used wired, but with 24bit limit 192khz. (its decent). So, yeah, closed back world its world of compromises and subjective taste in the end.
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