My one friend has now tried two of my headphones, the first being the M50 when I had them, and now my DT880. He liked both, and he seemed to sense that the DT880 was completely different from the M50, even though the last time he had heard the latter was months ago. Weird, I would never have pegged him for the audiophile type. I just turned him onto a pair of KSC75, and hopefully he'll enjoy those (and I'll get to try them, too!
). Evidently it doesn't run in the family, as his sister couldn't really see at first why I had just paid $250 for a pair of headphones. Her final comment was, "They're more acute, and they have more bass," which, all things considered, isn't a bad comparison with something like iBuds.
My mother liked my SR225i that I got after the M50. She had said that a certain song never sounded right to her on her cheapo headphones. She put the Grados on and said immediately that they were awesome.
I miss those cans. For all they did wrong, man did they do a few things totally right. I kind of hinted afterward that if she really liked those Grados a pair of the cheaper SR60i might appear under the Christmas tree, but she told me not to bother getting her something like that. Mental, I swear. And a lost excuse to get Grados again.
