Suggestions for portable comfy closed-back under $250... maybe $300

Time for a resurrection of this thread.

So I finally ended up getting the DT177x Go last week from a seller on Audio Mart who tried them for a few hours. I’ve been listening to them for a while and I have some thoughts.
I really wanted to like these. They have great build quality, great isolation, very little leakage, and very comfortable, etc.
At first I thought these were a winner. Kind of bassy dark with medium soundstage and slightly boring presentation. I had the leather pads on at first. I was noticing a little bit of distortion though when lower frequencies were played (more on that later). I blew it off as probably just burn in.
I switched the pads after a couple days to the velour or whatever they are called. Unfortunately with how tough beyer pads are to get on, I ended up accidentally tearing one of them a bit. It’s noticeable visually, but doesn’t effect them sound-wise. With these pads, the presentation is a bit more interesting and engaging, but they have lost most of their bass, and they are much brighter and more hollow sounding. Due to these pads being a bit more revealing, I really am noticing the distortion a lot now. It sounds like whenever there is a lot of low end, all the frequencies start getting distorted and almost sound like they are traveling in frames. Kind of similar to how when push a woofer too hard and it vibrates just a bit too much. Out of curiosity I tried the bass boost on my ifi Micro iDSD Black Label to see if the low frequencies were what was causing it. It’s even worse with that. I have tried many different sources, my laptop, my phone, my laptop through the ifi, my phone through the ifi, my old audio player, even my iPod shuffle. They all have the same result.
So I started digging around on the internet. Turns out I’m not the only person that has had this issue, and it does not appear that there is a clear fix for it:

The user ‘Icebergsimpson’ in that thread especially seems to have a good description of the problem I am having: Massdrop x Beyerdynamic DT 177X GO Headphones Discussions | Drop | plugged them into...

So what I am wondering is, has anyone else experienced this kind of issue before with any pair of headphones in general, and if so, what did you do? Is it possible that they just are not very good and can’t handle low frequencies?

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