About

We help people buy used headphones without getting burned. Name the pair you’re after, like a Sennheiser HD 414, an AKG K240, a Beyerdynamic DT 990 or a Stax Lambda, and there’s a page for it. Each one tells you the model’s story, what it takes to drive it, what wears out and what to check before you buy.

What headphone people know about this gear is scattered across forum threads, old manuals and makers’ spec sheets, and a raw eBay search gives you none of it. So we keep 29 model pages in one place, write down the tells that usually take years to learn (crumbling pads, a dead channel, a frayed cable at the cup, an electrostatic sold without its energizer, a fake in a convincing box) and pick the listings we’d buy.

We don’t sell headphones. No affiliate links. We earn nothing. We run no analytics or tracking cookies, and we’re not affiliated with any headphone maker. See how we work for how the pages are researched and our disclosure for how links, picks and photos work.

Headroom is part of allbutnew, a set of shops for secondhand gear. Got headphones to sell? The “Get an offer” link on every model page sends them to our headphone expert, who replies by email.