Shure has been killing it for years with their line of professional in-ear monitors. In 2010, they turned their attention to full-sized headphones. Does the SRH-940, their latest and greatest closed-back model, earn its keep?

- I am quite happy with my purchase -- especially at the price I paid. At $300 I think it would still be a good deal. The SRH940 is a quite different headphone from my previous cans, but is an improvement in almost every way.

Generally good on top quality recordings

Slightly relaxed in the low register and harsh at times

I bought the SRH 940'S and by god there incredible headphones. The quality from the headphones is not at all like your really there, its more like you enter a whole different world when putting them on. The best way to describe it, is you are truly listening to the purest of audio.

I have several other nice sets of headphones and these are significantly better than all the others. They are very flat with lots of midrange detail. They sound more balanced than my other headphones that cost twice as much.

Whether you're a professional sound engineer, at home producer, or simply someone who likes to listen to their music with truly good quality equipment, I could not recommend these more. Beautiful extended but not at all sibilant, astounding mids, and the bass is tight and still very present.

Still getting used to their revealing nature. Have heard new things on familiar recordings. Adds to the realism.

In 2010, Shure floored us with their new studio headphones. The SRH840 were super-comfortable, sounded fantastic, and delivered a smooth sound that was non-fatiguing. Since that time, they have been our go-to headphones at the mixing desk whenever we want to evaluate mixes or do some tracking.

When a pair of cans is destined to spend its life indoors, size isn't much of an issue. And these Shures are unashamedly large, padded and Cyberman-esque - we can't see many folks taking them on the Tube.

Open; transparent sound; well integrated across frequency range; comfy to wear

Revealing sound might not be to everyone's tastes

Very comfy full sized headphones. It provides decent isolation and great details and is very neutral. Frequency range is very wide giving nice treble as well as bass details. Slightly less upper bass compared with srh440 and srh840 but the extra detail made me want to listen to my music all over...

The Shure SRH940 have a clean design to them and they are very comfortable to use. An engineer once told me about these headphones and we had a headphone discussion. The sound of them is not bad, but I do have some issues with the mids and the lows.