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Spend a little more and get a pair of Sony MDR-7506’s. You will not be sorry. There’s a reason they are the professional studio gold standard. I know I’m not helpful with your $50 budget, but if you are spending that amount of money go for something of superb quality and comfort.
Actually, the drivers of the KSC-75 are a little better than those of the PortaPro. The shells of the KSC-75 clip right on to the PortaPro headband (or one of those headbands from the ultracheap dollarstore on ears for that matter), making them a popular modding option for the PortaPro amongst the headphone-geek-crowd…
Personally I recommend to spend a little more on headphones, but then again, portable audio is my passion. For on ears I recommend to get some flavor of Sennheiser HD25, as long as it’s not the ‘SP’ version and the impedance matches your source. Yes, they are a bit more expensive, but they work well with nearly every genre of music, are pretty much indestructible. I call them my ‘drag and drop’-headphones, I drag them everywhere and I’m not afraid to drop them… And if something does break, all components are available separately and can easily be replaced by the user.
The only thing I don’t like about the HD25 is the stock cable. It’s a heavy duty cable with steel conductors, and while the difference between copper cables might be debatable, the difference between steel and copper is pretty big. They are good with the stock cable, but they are better with an upgraded cable. A cheap upgrade is the cable of the HD600/HD650, but as this is a symmetric Y-cable and the stock HD25 cable is a asymmetric cable, you have to slide off the earcups and put them back on upside down, in this setup you will no longer use the cable clamp, but the connectors are tight enough to not need it. Or you could get a HD25 specific upgrade cable from Oyaide or something…
But I think I’m getting carried away a little…
I went with the Sennheister PX200IIs. The volume control broke after around a year, so now there’s static in changing volume, but it’s no big deal and doesn’t really affect the sound. They’re amazingly comfortable (14 hour plane rides) and small enough to fold and take almost anywhere.
Grado makes good headphones. I have the SR80 but the SR60 is good too.
My only complaint is the cord. It hasn’t crapped out on me yet in over two years of use but it gets twisted around easily.
I have heard very good things about the koss porta pro’s and they will b my next head phone purchase. I am a big fan of the Sennheiser px 100’S I have had 3 pairs of the originals they sound good and fold into a nice hard case for traveling. I can only assume the mk 2’s are as good and you can get them on amazon for about $45.
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