"New York - New York City: B&H Photo, 420 9th ave, NY. 5 minute walk from Penn Station. Please look up store hours before visiting, they're closed on Saturday"
"New York - New York City: AC Gears, 69 E. 8th Street. Sennheiser, Grado, HiFiMan, Shure, Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, RHA, Etymotic. They have both over ear and IEMs to try. They clean the tips or even provide new ones for IEM sampling."
These two stores are fairly close together and are about a 40min drive away from where you work but...
I'd recommend you go ask at https
/www.reddit.com/r/headphones/ buying $1000+ headphones is completely normal here and people don't freak out. Here's the daily purchase thread: https
/www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/412nsd/daily_headphone_purchase_advice_thread_20160115/
But seriously guys, we all love it when a $1000 PC goes 60+ FPS on ultra. The correct pair of $1000 headphones gives you the same result but in audio quality.