HD 280 Pro

Too bad the HD 380 Pros are discontinued. Maybe you can find good used or NOS? The HD 280 Pros don’t isolate as well. The HD 300 Pros isolate as well as the HD 380s and are their replacement model.

I use sennehiser HD280 pro studio headphones. You could try those out. Solid quality not gonna break the bank.

Can never say no to my HD 600. And my first Senn was HD 280 Pro which I still use from time to time. And my vote goes to classic.

I find that the Sennheiser HD 280 Pros are good for tracking, but the Sony MDR-7506s are good for mixing.

Agreed dt770 and hd280s are both really nice for metal. Nice clean crisp mid range.

I use Grado SR80 and iems: Tangzu Wan'er and KBEar KB01. Tending more and more to just using the iems, have great detail and punch, and are way less bulk. So the Sennheiser HD280 (great detail, but speak of bulk), Koss PortaPro and KSC75, and plenty of others, are just gathering dust. The VE Monk+ is pretty good also.

From least to most favorite: Audio-Technica ATH-M50X - well-built, cohesive imaging, but some of the most unnatural-sounding headphones I've heard, having a huge hole in the lower mids, mud-fest in the bass, and harsh peaky treble Audio-Technica ATH-M60X - well-built, surprisingly spacious for how small they are, but still a hole in the lower mids and shouty ear gain, plus they're on-ear and therefore uncomfortable Audio-Technica ATH-M40X - well-built, decent all-rounder, but still lacks the lower mids and mid-bass is too boomy, plus the treble is a bit sibilant Sennheiser HD280 PRO - great isolation, large pads, cohesive imaging, but too much sub-bass giving me a headache, too dull yet grainy, plus the cable is microphonic, heavy, stiff, and non-detachable AKG K361 - the most tonally balanced overall, but not very impressive technically, having kind of a tinny timbre with metallic treble, mediocre imaging, and some of the worst build and comfort with a huge design flaw - earpads have a lot of compression with pressure affecting the FR, creating constant channel imbalance, so you have to be perfectly still while using them AKG K371 - the same but more natural timbre for the sacrifice of warmer and muddier tuning Sennheiser HD620S - nice build, comfort, and isolation, good clarity, but unpleasant, cold, harsh, focused, claustrophobic, fatiguing tuning with wonky low-end Adam H200 - nice build, comfort, and isolation, surprisingly spacious, good bass quality, but too shouty FiiO FT1 - the best all-rounder, most casual, most comfortable, solid tonal balance, spatial qualities, and bass quality, but too much bass and too peaky unrefined treble, making them sound fatiguing Beyerdynamic DT770 PRO 250Ω - the best clarity, sounding almost like an open-back, great all-rounder, great low-end and midrange, decent spatial qualities, decently comfortable, but too sibilant, making them unsuitable for a certain kind of music NOTE: I also had the 80 and 32Ω versions of the DT770 but didn't like them as much