I just won a pair of aviators, and I have put them up to my Senn Hd595s. The aviators lost badly. In fact, they performed so poorly I'm trying to determine if my unit is defective or they just sound this way. As to members on head fi being narrow minded, have you actually read some of the epic...

So I just won these headphones (video game trivia finally paying off), and I'm having a hard time deciding if I got a bum unit or these phones actually sound this way. Mind you, I haven't burned them in, and this is an initial impression after 3 hours of listening to various electronica...