same here.  a little too warm/mid-centric, poor bass extension, and light but cheap feeling cabling.  at $100 its still a good buy if you want something thats really non-fatiguing and comfortable.   Quote:  

Creative has dropped the price of the aurvana in ear 3 dual-BA earphones to around $100.  They were $150 last week and on sale for $130 before that.  Just ordered a pair from amazon so i should be able to check them out by friday.  Joker's review compares them favorably to the klipsch custom 3...

as much as i hate to say it, i just couldn't get along with akg k240s.  they sounded awesome, but for me they just always pressed too hard around my ears and the pads were hot and irritating.  in retrospect i should have tried them with different pads.  oh well, i got a pair of k702s which are...

  not a great photo, but dave chappelle as MC Fisticuffs in "Turn my headphones UP." he must have had the 600 ohm version.

i would look at sony MDv6/mdr7506 and sennheiser hd280s.  those are two great closed back headphones.  The sennheisers have better bass, but the sonys are more comfortable and have a slightly more pleasing top end i find.

Quote:   I think the EQ and mixing was done really well on that album, its just that they smashed the album with so much compression in the mastering stage.  The dynamic range really suffers as a result and i think that's why the bass frequencies (which would have been physically louder...

IMO there are two kinds of well-produced hip hop albums:     the albums that have great fidelity, clarity, detail, etc.   Jay-Z - Blueprint Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Tupac - All eyes on Me The D.O.C. - No one can do it Better The Fugees and some of Kanye's albums (though i...

Faithfully by Journey.   it wasn't from the 80s.  it was the 80s.

*raises hand sheepishly* - pitchfork.   i don't really put a lot of stock in their reviews though.  usually when i discover bands on pitchfork i look them up on allmusic and then sample some of their stuff.

the beatles were less than the sum of their parts (i.e. three excellent songwriters and an incredible producer) and benefited greatly from the cultural climate their effervescent marketability.  consequently, they are the "safest" band to ever like and everything beatles-related will continue to...

also there's this girl named adele who i hear is pretty good, but i haven't heard her on the radio or seen her on tv in the last 3 or 4 minutes

Quote: suggested albums (assuming you are just into rock/pop and not hip hop at all)   m83 - hurry up we're dreaming beach house - teen dream sigur ros - ( ) radiohead's entire catalog st. vincent - strange mercy deerhunter - halcyon digest yeasayer - odd blood youth...

The Fountain (Clint Mansell) Inception (Hans Zimmer) Meet Joe Black (Thomas Newman)      probably my three favorite.

i'm trying to pick up a pair with a damaged outer shell right now in the for sale section.  if  i like the sound sig i will consider converting them to customs.   Quote:  

    Quote:   i hope you don't consider this proof positive of your supposition.   1. everybody already knows beggars banquet and back in black and dark side of the moon are great albums.  there is an accessibility to them because of that.  we are all exposed to them, and either...