What are the best headphones for bass?

I’m loving these: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA850G/A

Bass is good due to solid fit in ear (includes three sizes of silicone eartips)

Bass reflex acoustic principle (tiny holes in body prevents woofer’s straining against a partial vacuum)

Two way design (seperate woofer and tweeter) I’ve never seen a two way design this small before. How cool is that?

Sennheiser has a ton of great headphones. They have a bunch of different price ranges, but they are all great quality, even the cheap ones.

I have a pair of HD-201’s and the bass sounds great on them.

Anything that was made for studio use.

Aren’t the XB series supposed to be awesome?

Do fish even WEAR headphones?

Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 EB

Seriously, if there’s a Guitar Center near you, they have a wall of headphones for you to test drive.

@Axemusica I would have thought that any headphones designed for studio use would produce a pretty flat response and not emphasise any particular (in this case bass) frequency.

@stratman37, they wear these to confuse the enemy.

@Lightlyseared exactly. A true sound, the way it was meant to be heard. Most audio devices now’a’days have options to turn up the bass or turn down the treble anyway, so why not have a pair that would provide a good quality listening experience? I’m just saying if you’re listening to music that was mixed to have quite a bit of bass these would provide exactly how the composer wanted you to hear the music.

Funny!

@stratman37 My thoughts too! One’s that are water proof and will stick on the fish’s head? They don’t have ears, you know…

If you want to stay pro-sumer: http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS232LL/A

I have these and love the bass: http://www.ttvj.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=13_36&products_id=221

If money’s no object:

http://www.ttvj.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=208

http://www.ttvj.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=13_36&products_id=1402

or this:

http://www.ttvj.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=172

You can also look at some crazy follks who spend a ton of money on headphones at: http://www.head-fi.com

If it’s home listening, you may want to consider getting a dedicated headphone amplifier to compliment your high-end headphones, as most media players have pretty crappy amplifiers; a dedicated headphone amp takes line in and amplifies it to speaker level to properly power the headphones-resulting in a massive improvement of the sound quality.

I’ve mentioned these several times, but I will keep talking!

Sennheiser, as mentioned by @buckyboy28, make great headphones.

I purchased these HD 485s after reading the numerous great reviews on Amazon. They are very comfortable, and for the price, offer amazing sound. They also have a soundstage…from reading the other reviews, that’s very uncommon at this price range!

They also offer a removable/replaceable cord, for the inevitable time when the cord starts to break down. However, I’ve had mine for almost 2 years now, and the cord still works great.

Speaking to the “bass” question…when I want to listen to Hans Zimmer’s The Kraken or Miles Davis’ So What without cranking the volume, I turn to these headphones. (The first is a bowed upright bass, the second, pizzicato upright. Hard to hear at the best of times!) These headphones definitely deliver.

There is one set of buds that I like that is pretty cheap and surprisingly good; Koss Plugs/Spark Plugs (same thing, different shape and color).
They run about $15, have decent frequency response from 10Hz-20KHz, fit comfortably, and sound better than some headphones I’ve tried that cost 10 times as much.
I like to listen to a range of stuff from death metal to classical, so the ability to reproduce a wide range of sounds decently is a must, and you can’t listen to house/trance/techno without BASS.
The fact that the foamies block out external sound better than many muffs is just a bonus :)