I'm sure that most people who are regulars around here know that I really preach about how much I don'ti like the B&O A8's. I don't mind some of B&O's products; they're cool,
some of the products sound semi-decent, though you will never get what you pay for. There is a monstrous premium paid for ALL Bang and Olufsen products, whether you like it or not.
I actually came into this forum raving (embarrassingly now) about the A8's and their "silky midband" and "clear sound," and I REFUSED to believe the bad comments that people were saying about them. I thought, "They haven't heard them long enough," or ,"they just don't think B&O can make a good product." But the fact of the matter is, that when I got my W100's and compared them to the A8's, I was SO suprised that I practically jumped out of my seat. Then I listened to my A8's compared to the cheapie Sony buds that came bundled with my PCDP, and then I probably could have cried. The Sony buds delivered very close performance (besides boosted bass) and it was very dissapointing.
GET RID OF THEM NOW! Sell them on ebay now! Sell them "AS NEW!" Chances are your opportunity to return them to Bang and Olufsen are expired, so DO sell them on Ebay and DON'T sell them here or on HeadWize for the reason that everyone knows how bad they are. Sorry to be harsh, but is the truth; I LOVED the B&O A8's until I heard better products; it's all about your reference point.
See these threads:
--In this thread, I come into Head-Fi raving about the A8's and what I thought to be great sound.
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showth...2&highlight=A8
--In this thread, I made a rapid transition to from liking them to coming to my senses as to how bad they were. (For the record, I was Tuki-Tuki at the beginning of the tread and changed back to my original name, The Quality Guru, after realizing how fruity Tuki-Tuki actuallly was).
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showth...6&highlight=A8
--In this thread, I started telling newbies that A8's SUCK. In very lengthy replies, I could write gobs about the a8's horribleness.
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showth...7&highlight=A8
--Actually, Blighty did a review on these; and boy was he being subtle about the whole thing. Most people wouldn't be subtle about a $160 headphone that sounds equivalent to a $30 one.
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showth...&threadid=8856
Well, sell these earphones, because you can get MUCH better headphones for much less!