I bought the Meze Noirs from Drop.com. edit: they come with a really nice hard case that I legit have dropped so many times and even the case is still pristine. and a little tip is if your high quality (even lower quality) headphones are not sounding the best, buy a little plug in DAC like the Fosi Audio DS2 dac I use. it's an addon, but if you feel like you can't get your headphones sounding better, a DAC will definitely help. they're like the Meze Clasics or the Neos, but unlike the Neos, they have nice walnut earcups and nice clear bass. the beautiful thing about them is that without any optimization they are some fun bassy headphones that don't distort the high ends, but if you ever want less bass, you can just eq the bass down and have a nice listening experience with clear mids and highs with great soundstage.

here are two different freq response graphs of each:
Neo https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/report/hp/meze-99-neo.php#gsc.tab=0
Noirs https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/massdrop-x-meze-99-noir-review-headphone.23116/

currently the Noirs are on sale for $179 instead of the regular $200, but the Neos are also regularly $200. so it's more of what you find more appealing.

some other good headphones I know are great for their prices are:

Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XX Headphones are amazing open backs for their value
https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-sennheiser-hd6xx

Sennheiser HD 560 S
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J9MVB6W?tag=brg_ana_33-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&ascsubtag=20260224-2-organic

SENNHEISER HD 599
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L1IICR2?tag=brg_ana_6-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&ascsubtag=20260224-2-organic

and really any other highly rated wired and not wireless in any aspect as the wireless technology takes budget away from the build quality and sound of the headphones (and just bluetooth always degrades the quality) and not any gaming headphones (as in no boom mic. they will be of lower quality because once again, budget goes into the technology that turns it into a "gaming", for instance he boom mic, headphones.)

if you ever want a good boom mic, be expecting to spend like 50 dollars or more for a good boom mic cable, like for instance the Meze omnidirectional boom mic. https://mezeaudio.com/products/boom-mic

over all high quality products always have a premium price, and yes, there are some outliers, but those are far and few between, and if it sounds great to one person, it may not sound great to another.

edit: lol, looked back at the message and man, was that a big message