Short answer: at some point you will run into diminishing returns with how much $$ you spend on a pair of headphones and the performance the headphones. With this in mind, I think having 2 $200 headphones is better because then you can get 2 headphones that do different things, such as have one...

I don't own either of these headphones, but one note for your consideration - the d2k are not fully closed - they are sort of semi-closed, and do not provide as much isolation as a purely closed-back headphone. The 550 is a closed-back headphone and isolates as such. As you mentioned, and from...

Quote: Yep...disappointing. Every time I came back to head-fi and saw there were 50+ new posts in this thread, I would come in and the same earphonesolutions coupon was being talked about. Lame. Cyber monday perhaps??

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Quote:   Completely agree with this. I love my e10 and only downside is the plug. I have to exchange mine b.c it is distorting a lot..hopefully new one wont have plug problem.   

Quote: Hmm, you'd think they would of fixed the issue b/c I read people had this issue with 1st batch. Is yours (or anyone elses) headphone jack loose though? I agree it seems they messed up in having such a loose/wobley headphone jack. Really annoying 

Had the 2nd batch E10 for about 2 weeks now and had been loving it but today started having the distortion problem. The jack seems really loose, and now anything played through the E10 is really distorted. I am pretty positive it is a jack problem b/c messing with the jack can solve the...

im using same setup, its awesome...hd-25's and e10 with bass boost = saweeeeet   Quote:  

Quote: Yeah its damn powerful. I have yet to turn it past 1 hahah. granted im using hd25-1's which are pretty easy to drive, but still, impressive

I just got mine also, I am really happy that the slight hiss that came from my Macbook pro's audio jack is finally gone thanks to the E10. I am also still shocked by how small it is...really doesn't look that small in photos, hard to tell how small it is until you see one in person

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Ears-TripleFi-Isolating-Earphones/dp/B0019RBJOE

The pleather are nice when walking in cold weather also  Conversely, not that much fun to wear when it is hot outside...

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Quote: Yeah, there were a lot of words I had definitely heard or read before, but couldn't remember or never learned their meaning