Quote: Relatives asked me what I wanted for Xmas. Your post highlighted exactly why I didn't say "headphones". 

You might want to clean up that last part where you repeated yourself about ten times. Just looks a bit unprofessional, really. And the formatting of the whole post makes it simply difficult and a pain to read. Formatting and proper SPaG goes a long way.   On the point of M50s: It depends on...

I will give you my firstborn for one of those. International cross-ship. What say you?

To the people with multiple headphones: How does that work? Do you simply swap out headphones based on what your current musical muse is?   Legitimate question; I'm not sure how this is done.

Some Logitech stuff back in the day. I started out with computers long before I found out about audiophile equipment, so there was a phase where I thought Creative + Logitech = quality.   Don't flog me, please.

Quote: Well I just picked up one of the things on that list for myself :D    

Save up and perform computer jobs here and there.   Unfortunately, being an undergrad in biomed research, paid internships are a bit lacking and highly competitive since my field doesn't have much marketable work in industry.

Quote: If you value your bank balance, this is solid advice!   But I definitely +1 just putting them on and listening to them, without worrying about burn time. It's true that the general consensus is the M50s benefit from burn in, but you listening to them right away versus you...

Quote: Wow, they've really shot up in pricing! I guess people have caught onto their quality; I distinctly remember getting them for $35 about two years ago.

Quote: Eh, in my experience, almost everyone has some sort of expensive hobby (or in my case, hobbies). Usually when people point out spending a good amount of money on headphones, I point out the money they spend on whatever their vices are.   Besides, I think my knife hobby is a...

I own one, and after looking around at HF, feels like I'm in the minority :D   I blame lack of funds due to uni.

A nice, large market for good FLAC. Some AD2000s would be nice too.

Recently picked up the M50s on here myself and paired it with a Zero DAC with OPA627s.    So far, I am definitely loving the sound profile. I miss the sound stage and mids of my AD700s, but the M50's mids aren't as bad as some reviews make it out to be, and having some sort of bass response...

Yeaup I have before. Two Beats and one Bose users have had their lol's at how I don't run their headphones through an iPod Touch for "quality sound". Now I'm not a prude and pick on people for choosing bad headphones (although I'm not above loling at them in my own mind), but it seriously irks...