I am so tired of people thinking that they need more than boomy mid-"bass" and piercing, Banshee-like treble. The nice man at the Bose store told me that Bose hand-designs all their headphones to have the best sound in the frequency ranges that people actually hear. He explained that Bose uses the SAL 9000 supercomputer, designed by Dr. Chandra, to calculate the ranges where most people like their music to be loud and exaggerated. At one point, the original computer, HAL 9000 went insane and started to design headphones with flat response curves. However, the heroic engineers of Bose shut him off before people heard these headphones. When I got confused and started to cry, he explained that the midrange is actually where the mind-control signals are encoded. Bose manages to protect its customers with its sound. Also, computer design has to make everything better. I dried my tears, but found I was still crying! Then I realized that these weren't tears of anger and confusion, but tears of joy. Truly, when I plugged them into my unamped bookshelf stereo combo, I was in headphone Elysium. As the choral section of Beethoven's 9th barked at me with shrieking highs and muddy lows, I realized that it was me and my Bose those shrill and boomy singers were caterwauling about.