Originally Posted by AdamWill
Just wait for them to arrive, listen to them, and make up your own mind. The fact that no-one else loves the SA5000 as much as you do rather suggests no-one else here has the same ears as you anyway, so I suspect others' opinions would be even more meaningless than is usually the case.
Well you must have missed the recent German magazine review posted on this forum which rated the Sony SA 5000 as tops, rating the SA5000 above both the Sennheiser HD650 and the AKG K701. Duh!
You should change your statement from
"no-one else loves the SA5000 as much as you do"
to
"only critics with access to all quality headphones available love the SA5000
as much as you do as the best available headphone for the money".
And yes, Raisin, reading comprehension is often lacking here.
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