Damn, I just bought an Audioengine D3. Oh well, the D3 is a great product nonetheless.

I recently bought an Energy ESW-C8 for my small room in the apartment I'm currently living in. It's plenty powerful and the volume output level only needs to be a little over half to blend with my speakers. I can faintly hear a 30Hz tone through it and at 40Hz it has plenty of volume, so it...

Sorry . I'm not really sure what else it could be. Maybe your positioning the headphones too far back on your head. What is your source? Does it have any digital signal processing enabled? I honestly think this is just a fault of headphones, perhaps if you get a really well programmed cross-feed...

Most audio recordings are mixed and mastered using stereo speakers, so when we listen to them on headphones the sound seems to have a different orientation. I almost guarantee that is why you feel this way. Sometimes I put my headphones on and I think there is something wrong with the imaging...

I have a feeling you'll like the XB500, it's similar to Beats in bass quantity and has better quality bass in my opinion. The mid-range isn't as smeared from the mid-bass hump as with Beats, so vocals should be more prominent and full-bodied.

Data loss in digital conversion only occurs when lossy codecs are used, since they each have their own form of compressing and removing data from an audio file. Since lossless is ripped bit-for-bit and no data loss occurs during the compression, they can be converted with the exact same condition.