Every day I see People asking questions about the various options available when buying big headphones. Suggestions , usually are the HP 805 and the XD 100 and 200. I had an HP805, and wanted to see how the others compared. So I got hold of a few more headphones and pitted them against each other !

First, the contenders pose for a photo session.

The Battle line-up.

Lets start the Battle.

Test Configuration 

70% of the preliminary listening was done on my trusty Transcend T610, critical listening on my Foobar, SSRC @ 96Khz/24bits to my SB Audigy 2ZS platinum's 96/24 ASIO interface with all of the card's DSP disabled.
The frequency responses were played back on the Transcend and recorded on my soundcard, analyzed with Rightmark Audio Analyzer 6.05, and the heaphone impedances measured by a plain old Digital Multimeter.