Price: $899.99

Website: www.danclarkaudio.com

Brent said: I’m always looking for the perfect headphones -- ones that are comfortable enough that you never feel the urge to take them off, with a natural tonal balance that never calls attention to itself and reproduces every recording faithfully. The Æon Flow 2 Closed headphones, fitted with the perfed pads, do that for me -- and they’re compact and portable enough to take anywhere.

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The gist: Get the perforated earpads to hear what these can really do.