Looking for a replacement of Shure SRH940 Headphones

[heeeyshoosh]

Hi there,
I love(d) the sound of the Shure SRH940 I had and I'm looking for something with equal or better sound in that kinda clear analytical way.
I'd get them again, except that they are just too painful to wear long term and the construction was also prone to breaking and falling apart. I fixed it twice myself and have had it refurbished by Shure twice before they ultimately got stolen.

Does anyone know of a closed back headphone out there around $400 ish or lower that can compare or is even better?

I currently have:
Sony WH-1000XM4
ATH-M50xBT
both of which are really comfortable (well after switching pads on the sony so they don't boil my ears)
but the sound is just too uh. dampened? cozy?

Anyway, If you've listened to the SRH940's and have moved on to something better, I'd love to know more about it.

Cheers,
Shoosh

 

[staticV3]

Hi @heeeyshoosh! Welcome to ASR.

The SRH940 has strong bass roll-off rarely found in modern headphones, as it was found that peope prefer to hear the entire track bass-line and all


You can compare its tonality to hundreds of other headphones here: https://autoeq.app/

Just make sure that you compare only the Error curve, as different headphones were evaluated on different headphone rigs and the red Error curve compensates for that.

Also note that the y-axis scales automatically to match the data, so watch out for that.

Vintage headphones from Sennheiser or AKG would likely come closest, or you could always EQ a modern pair to match

Stock, it seems like the AGK:
K240 MKII
K240 Monitor
K240 Studio
K240 DF
K250
K340
..would be a good match.

 

[heeeyshoosh]

Yeah I'm certainly not a bass head by any means, but I don't hate it if it's there. I'll take a look at that site and see if I can find something with at least coming close to the mid and above ranges.