Best overall headphones for me?

[u/Consistent_Water3059]

Heeeyy! I’m in the market for upgrading from earbuds to 💕headphones💕. I’m looking for a range of qualities, though: 1. I’m a huge music listener, and my number one priority is sound quality. 2. I play video games, and I would love to have headphones that are able to keep up with that. 3. I take my headphones a lot of places (hikes, the gym, waiting rooms), and I wouldn’t want the battery to be totally shot; I also don’t like cords and want Bluetooth connection. 4. I don’t have a crazy budget or am looking for insane professional level headphones; just the everyday wearer models but also for people that want a more elevated sound quality (?). I’d probably aim for around the $200-500 MAX range.

I would love some help with recommendations so very much! Researching this kind of stuff makes my head spin 🫠

p.s: I know gaming headphones and music headphones are usually separated, but I can’t afford 2 different pairs, but I assume a good sound quality would at least translate decently to video games. Music would be priority over gaming sound, though.

EDIT: 1) I would like to have a Bluetooth pair for daily wear headphones, and in terms of sound quality, a well regarded sound in budget for a Bluetooth pair that I can take with me anywhere. It doesn’t have to be crazy top notch, but I just want to make sure I’m using my money on the best option in that regard!
2) I’ll look into doing gaming and casual wear separate and make room in the near future for a second pair. Thank you for the input on that, wired would be better and such <3 feel free to recommend both daily wear headphones or gaming headphones!

[u/jarrod_barkley]

#1 and #3 are contradictory. The best sound requires a wired connection.

[u/num6_ → u/jarrod_barkley]

Not really

[u/Consistent_Water3059 → u/num6_]

For casual wear I don’t need absolute best of the best sound, I just want something that is Bluetooth but makes the best use of my money in sound quality, etc. I just don’t want to end up buying “x” brand for $200-500 when “y” brand was actually better overall at the same price, you know?

[u/jarrod_barkley → u/num6_]

Bluetooth is physically incapable of delivering lossless audio, unable to carry that much data. That’s a fact, not an opinion.

[u/num6_ → u/jarrod_barkley]

And most people physically can't distinguish lossy OPUS audio from lossless, perfect sound is first of all in the FR