Just thought I'd pipe in again.   I bought these headphones for critical listening, as a second reference for mastering complimenting my normal speaker/room environment.   I just had a new baby on saturday, and decided to do the majority of a recent project at home, then take it to the...

Yes, I'm at about 40 hrs in now (2.5 times overnight with pink noise plus listening) and I can already hear a difference. The whole debate about break in is weird. I bought two pairs of $100 Sony's a year apart (another pair for my wife), and they sounded identical. On the other hand, I bought...

Oooh, these phones really reveal dynamic compression. I could hear the soundstage shift on I'm A Sucker For A Kind Word by Copeland very very obviously. I could also hear limiting and compression on almost every non-jazz/classical recording I have listened to. I am going to be even more...

I just got my q701s in the mail yesterday. I noticed they were too sibilant when I demoed them. Its a little off putting, but for me it is a win win. I bought them as a second reference for mastering since they resembled the sound signature of my paradigm studio reference 80s startlingly well...

Edit: wrong thread. My apologies.