I think the earpieces in these just place the drivers too far away from your ears. If I press the earpieces hard against my ears while I'm playing them, the sound is a little better. I can actually hear some bass doing it this way. Still not great, but better, although still not tolerable...

Well, from reading about them on here they sounded like they would be a decent set of budget phones... I spent about 20 minutes trying to EQ these things out to where they didn't make me want to throw up, and could not do it. They are just so hollow and tinny sounding. No matter what I EQ...

Alright, these sennheiser HD-205's are THE CRAPPIEST headphones I've ever heard in my life. No kidding, one of my Ipod earbuds held 3 inches away from my ear sounds a million times better than this set of headphones. These have NO bass at all, and when I boost 50hz by about 2db I can hear the...

I ended up going with a pair of Sennheiser HD-205's and a fiio E3 amplifier. Managed to find both new on ebay for under 30$ shipped!

Ahhhh, thanks you two. I don't know if I'm rich enough for some denons right now, but I've always been a fan (had a Denon Z1 deck in my iasca car). Derek, are your sennheisers musical in addition to being bass heavy? Those are one of the models I looked at, but read alot of bad reviews. I...

Hi, thanks.. what does d1001 and FWIR mean?

I used to be big into car audio (competed in usaci outlaw spl and iasca sq) and went to college to become a recording studio engineer, but I got burnt out big time and realized that sound/music is just a hobby. I thought I had it all figured out with regular speakers until a friend gave me a...

I used to be big into car audio (competed in usaci outlaw spl and iasca sq) and went to college to become a recording studio engineer, but I got burnt out big time and realized that sound/music is just a hobby. I thought I had it all figured out until a friend gave me a pair of Stanton DJ pro...