Some people just want to have their ears tickled by that boom boom. Hence why Beats are so popular with the general public.
I partially agree.
Partially because there are people (like me) who like that little more bass because of the genres that are liked.
In my case i listen a lot of hard/heavy edm genres which are pumped and compressed till distortion many times, plenty of 808s basses, many subs and much power out of the sub-bass themselves.
So having a linear bass earphone just puts me nervous because i don't feel the rumble i need to push the rumble around me.
That is a just a point of view obviously, and that's again obvious a prefer a linear bass (maybe pushed by covering the vents or using foam tips, or equalizing) than a overwhelming bass that puts everything behind and rudely hot, knocking down the natural feel of the voices and so on.
An example can be the AKG 321, to me they sound a lot harsh, sibilant and piercing in the upper region, too much boost on the lower frequencies ans mids that sound artificial and behind everything. The treble even knock down the bass making the listening not enough satisfying and coherent.
My memt x5 has a stellar bass with a good amount of detail in the treble region, and even if mids are MUCH recessed, they sound clear and natural. I have to be sincere, as soon as i get a tinaudio t2 on my hands, first thing will be putting blue tack on the vents or a piece of black tape, except if i would use them for monitoring and tracking purposes.
Beats anyway are a great company if we have to speak about how they work.
They found a big market when they can sell low res headphones and make very big money just pushing the products to people who really care about status symbols and tendences.
Well... It's not easy to state 'what is better' because I know of a headfier that prefers the tin audio T2 (£25) over everything he has, including a lot more costly iems he has tried. It's not about price but about the actual sound quality and sound tuning (for me atleast). I went into my local headphone store with the ostrys as reference and can safely say that it swept out most of the competition clean and even alot more expensive iems for my tastes. I don't care about what anyone else says, but I even preferred it more than the Andromeda's!!! But maybe a completely different outcome for someone else's ears. Everyone has different expectations bro, it's not an easy hobby to just go and recommend something but a very costly hobby indeed!!!
In your case I have to say a little thing. Like we've already said many other times on the thread, the problem is not what is better and what can be compared in terms of costing.
The curious thing is how the technology pushed us forward: now we're able to make stellar earphones for a few bucks.
The problem is not so which headphones is better between a 10$ one and a 1k$ one, but how much money are you gonna spend to have enthusiast gear and how much do you gain in terms of coherence, detail, general quality..
This world is freakin incredible, time ago i would never thought we could reach this level of quality/price ratio but then, we're here babies.
