Sennheiser, being a German company adhere to function over form. So when beats took the world by storm, the HD 418s were their conservative attempt at adding flair to their products. The result actually looks silly, flames on the side of my headphones? Predictably they didn't take the world by storm, and these have been replaced by the hd419, which is stamped from the exact same parts, just with more appropriate gray and black styling minus the silly flaming decal. That aside, let's actually review these. When I audition headphones the first thing I...

Rocketfish is the Best Buy house brand of audio components/accessories. When I picked these up I was getting sick of the 'pinched' sound of my CX300ii series B, or whatever name Sennheiser has attached to them. By 'pinched' I mean boosted in the wrong places of the spectrum. I don't believe in spending $500 on iems that are going to be sweated on, tossed in a gym bag and otherwise abused. Hell I don't believe in spending $500 on iems period. You can get some fabulous circumaurals for that. So I went on a quest to see what I could get for less than...