Quote: They're just different masterings and you prefer the other two to the one on the CD, as a format nothing is wrong with CDs.  

I'll try that in a few minutes, thanks!

My SE215's came in the other day, and at first they were wicked uncomfortable.  My previous pair of 'phones used a type of hybrid tips that curved in the ear bowl and very shallowly entered the canal.  At first the SE215 bodies hurt my ears because they pushed against the bowl of my ears because...

Quote: While I do not know what goes into the 21.5" iMac, I know the older 24" design and now 27" design use an IPS panel, and the only competition (dell ultrasharp) shares the same price tag as an apple iCinema, that is $1000.  So you get a PC that would probably cost $400 to build...

Quote: Actually, no.  Apple Laptops and iMacs (NOT macPro's or iOS devices) are actually priced fairly well.  For the performance-affecting hardware, yes, you can built/buy it for less.  However, between the IPS panel display, huge ass battery, huge trackpad, customer support, and...

Over 1 year IE2 update:   Cord is fraying where it connects to (FREAKING BOTH, ARGH!) housings.    They stopped burning in long long ago, but these are the impressions I've gotten:   Bass is incredibly bloated when you take them out of the box, mids don't exist and highs extend...

http://www.sennheiserusa.com/serviceandsupport_dealer-locator   not on the list, not legit.

Quote: Whoa whoa whoa there, *most* metal is actually very well recorded and very well produced.  Unsigned bands and black metal in general pretty much have the worst recording quality every shipped, but metal, especially its more refined subgenres like progressive/jazz metal, folk...

http://www.amazon.com/Njord-Limited-Leaves-Eyes/dp/B002G1X350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330980828&sr=8-1   http://soundcloud.com/scythels/leaves-eyes-fr-yas-theme   Frøya's Theme is out of this world.  The range feels compressed on the 320kbps MP3 on soundcloud, but on CD/FLAC it's...

Quote: HDR can be subtle, you just mostly see tone-mapped pieces of crap.  Most HDR you see would be like pushing the bass part of the EQ way down, the lower mids way up the upper mids down, and the highs way up.

I fully agree, I'm 15 and cringe when I hear Justin Beiber or Eminem coming out of the kid next to me on the bus's headphones at 125dB.   When my mom accidentally cleaved the right output off my old apple headphones (oops?) I seized the chance to get better gear.  At the time, I didn't know...

well something is getting rid of the static after an hour or two every day D:

Warning: recommendation of a Bose product incoming! Bose IE2s:   Price: $99.99   Sound: Excellent bass, fairly good highs, somewhat muffled/distorted mids.    Overall Opinion: The price is somewhat unjustified, as Bose used their (trademarked?) crappy build materials but they do...

Actually, after giving it extra-special-attention today, I think it's just dust or something.  It faded after like two hours of pumping audio through it :\  Burnt dust ftw?

*Sigh* Finally (wasn't my choice to wait this long, authorizing purchase of "expensive" gear through parents took FOREVER) I got decent headphones (Bose IE2s, I said decent, not great, for a reason).  And now I've realized that my laptop has a serious audio problem.  It's either hardware static...