Thanks for the reply. I used to have the Grado SR-60's, so I've experienced open before. I'm hoping these will be good for jazz. I guess I'll open them up and give them a shot, I'm just hoping I don't regret the (admittedly minor) loss of cash that could've gone towards the K701 or 990.

I ordered these today, but I'm already feeling buyer's remorse. I was sold on these by reading through this thread, but it seems like peoples' opinion of these have fallen off a bit. I was hoping to get a nice alternative to my MDR-V6's, and these seemed like a good deal, but do these come...