I like music but buying headphones is more fun yo.
If you want music to sound better here's a tip: provided you have a bit of headroom in your amplifier and they weren't £2 or came free with your smartphone, turn it up. Then turn it up some more. Maybe try holding your headphones like this
There you go, sounds better doesn't it?
There's lesson one in mixing and mastering popular music, lol.
If you want your sounds to sound clearer, bigger and bassier, boost the frequencies in this pattern with an EQ:
However the effect will diminish after about 20 seconds, so turn the volume up even more. It will be the best music you've ever listened to until your blow your eardrums anyway.
If you want to hear more of something, boost those parts that appear low in the graph. Specifically, boost these:
But don't boost too much/all of 800Hz-2K (or cut it) because you will hear
everything but nothing.
If you want rock music to sound rockier, buy headphones that boost or cut these bands (most headphones do this):
Junk - 20-40Hz
Kick - 40-100Hz
Bass - 100-350Hz
Snare - 1Khz
Guitar Attack/Solo - 2-3KHz
Vocals - strawberry floating all over the place
Piano - strawberry float that gooseberry fool
Junk ~12Kz+ depending on the music and how deaf you are
Sorry I don't understand any other kind of music because I'm too edgy, but honestly our sensibility to "goodness" and "loudness" is still largely informed by rock music mid 60s-80s so whatever.
Electronic music (basically all contemporary pop/electronica) is pretty good with a flat response, the fit of the headphone is more important (for bass transmission to ur skull). And stronger mid/highs as well, basically all that matters is 40-100Hz, 1k and a bit of 10k.
R&B is basically both of those.
If you listen to something else idk, steal/try some headphones and buy the ones you like.
If you understand sound (that is, headphones, music and your own ears) then you can buy headphones for £10 and they will sound amazing, you will buy more when they break and speak wistfully of how much you (a) miss your old headphones (b) they are soooo much better