You are the best one. Make a short list from reviews and recommendations, then find places to try them. Tedious, but far more reliable than trusting someone else 's ears.
The Absolute Sound as compared to just sound? re: Headphones.
In being in the market for a bedroom set of headphones, I have been looking at reviews. To my dismay some of the "professional" reviews are using their phone or some low-fi device to evaluate a set of headphone's performance. In it's heyday, Road & Track was trustworthy on car reviews as handling, braking and performance were how they judged cars....as compared to some magazines where everything was just great (kind of Julian Hirsch) What/who do you feel is a realistic source for audio reviews based on accurate sonic merit? I called Angelina, but Brad would not let her make any recommendations.