I bought these and they are much worse if you compare them with any Sennheiser HD500 range and above.   However, because the bass is heavily exaggerated they do very well with a laptop without any external amplifier. In this case the sound becomes like if you had an amplifier (a bad one). If...

Quote: Originally Posted by pp312 There's a couple of points here. First. how do you know this "dull and boring" sound simply isn't more accurate. Many people after switching to better gear have this reaction, that there's a lack of what they took to be sparkle but what was actually a...

Hello My old amplifier that originates from the 80s is starting to fail which forced me to buy a new amplifier. Without any better knowledge I bought a Yamaha AV receiver Yamaha RX-V365 and to my surprise the headphone sound from it sounded dull and boring, not as vibrant as with the old...