Quote below gave me a chuckle.
Anyway, I don't understand why people think that HD650 is not detailed or have resolution. Is it because of it lack of sparkle, and people think the sharp treble results in higher resolution? I have yet to hear anything with such great detail. I have listened to HD800 at a meet, but it was too sparkly for my taste as my ears have adjusted to my HD650, and it is indeed detailed.
People that believe that HD800 has more resolution or details, can you back up your statements with any sort of reasons or evidence? I would really like to hear you out. As for accuracy of tones, I think HD650 is accurate sound wise, but not accurate to recordings because most recordings are flawed, its not natural sounding. If you hear sibilance, its the result of recording, its recording is not true in my opinion. True recording is when outputted by a neutral source, it doesn't add or delete from nature of real sound. HD650 hide the sibilance, yet it doesn't hide details. If you listen to it at first, it sounds veiled because people are so used to sparkly sound when produced from an electrical source, but if you listen to it long enough, your ears adjust to the sound and I can say everything sounds natural and detailed. Not to mention that it needs to be properly amped for its potential.
As for the post about expensive cars vs economical cars. Come on... you should know better than to use such a cheap analogy. To me, it sounds like a personal justfication for buying a simple electrical equipment that cost above 1.5K.