I like my Koss
ESP/950's with the E/90 amplifier. I've seen a few people claiming they sound awful (blaming the amplifier- how they come to this conclusion I have no idea since you can't readily connect the phones to any other amp because of their proprietary or at least unique connector) but I have side by side compared them with Sennheiser HD-580s and Stax Lambda Signatures (the ones with the funny looking big boxes that cover your ears) and their matching vacuum tube amp and find the Koss phones to be quite good in comparison.
Ah well, there's no accounting for taste... including mine!
The most noticeable difference between the Stax phones and the Koss phones was a more forward placement of the sound image with the Stax phones which I attribute to the drivers in the Stax units being placed forward of the ears and aimed back across the head toward the ears.
MR
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