Great tonality, sub-focused bass emphasis, bassy without being muddy. Average imaging and resolution. Like I said before, these are quite hefty in weight, but also in size. (Which I like a lot, but for those looking for smaller, lighter cans, I don't think this is where you want to go) The plastics used on the headphones are very solid and of high quality. I guess I had taken the build of the previous set of headphones I was using as fair, so when I just grabbed the earcups and pulled them apart I was blown away with just how well these things were made. Mostly neutral, slight bass lift, highly resolving and natural both in tone and timbre. The world's best headphone. The mid-range can sound a bit forward with certain recordings, but I think it mostly knows its place in the mix.

With enough requests, a headphone may also be tested with a different (typically more expensive) amplifier. If the community deems this amplifier as “necessary” for said headphone, the price of the amplifier will also be added to the MSRP value and valued accordingly.Considering how close the 440 was to the Harman Target, it will be interesting to see how this new model performs and whether it fixes the high-treble peak. An intense sound given its significant treble boost, but countered by a smooth lower-midrange bump. The SRH440s are very comfortable, largely because the ear cups are soft and the clamping force is low. Needs a little more upper midrange to balance out the honkiness. Good dynamic performance especially in the bass.

Tonality is somewhat off with peaks and dips here and there, but overall not a bad sounding headphone. As with the 7506, you’re getting a coiled cable, but here it’s detachable and not nearly as annoying as that one is. The bass has a bit more extension than a 7506 and hits a bit harder but still isn’t bass- heavy. It’s also not bass-light. It kind of sits in the middle. As a gaming headphone, possibly the best technically though with the usual pitfalls of the Audeze house sound. The legendary neutral reference. "Veiled" with a warm tilt (in comparison to HD600), and pretty terrible at imaging.Clean, resolving yet intense sound scratches the detail itch but is a little too edgy for long listens. Basically dead-neutral tuning, emphasis on "dead". Strong all-rounder whose only fault is not having that "wow-factor". By far the best quality about the 440 is its sound profile which is mostly neutral across the board save for the bass which does have a 5-7dB shelf across 20Hz to about 100. The 440 does have a bit more treble and bass than the HD600, but by and large they are pretty similarly flat and even sounding. The Grado SR60i is just a bit less expensive (on the street), and comes from a design philosophy that seems to parallel the approach Shure has taken with the 440s.