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hmmm interesting stuff indeed. pp312, can you be more specific when you say they occupy different stratospheres? does it mean LCD 2 is everything hd 650 has, but way way better? because i've always thought that each headphones (to some extent) have their unique way of presenting (sound signature), and hence where the complementing each other idea comes from.
Actually I find the idea of "complementing" rather odd, as it belongs to that philosophy that says there's no really accurate or "best" sound; it's just what you happen to prefer. My own philosophy is that of hi-fi--high fidelity to the original sound, so the "best" sound is that which most closely approximates the sound as heard at the performance, whether it be live or recorded (we won't get into the vagaries of mic positioning etc; that's entirely another subject). So I don't even subscribe to the idea of having more than one headphone--why would you want more than one? For different kinds of music? A truly accurate headphone should reproduce all kinds of music equally well, since it's accurately reproducing the original performance (unless of course you don't want the original performance but something more exciting). Of course one might want open and closed headphones, or full-sized and earbud, for different purposes, but why would you want two full-sized open phones? Inevitable one will be more accurate than the other, in which case why would you be using the less accurate one?
OK, I listen entirely to classical/orchestral music, so my goal is to accurately reproduce the sound of a symphony orchestra. I know others listen to rap, electronica or whatever and possibly want exaggerated bass, treble etc. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do to help those people (just kidding). In any case that's not "hi-fi", and this is after all Head-Fi, so one presumes the goal here is accuracy.
Which brings me the long way round to the comparison of HD650 and LCD-2. As I said in the other post, and can't really expand on, the LCD-2 simple sounds more like live instruments. Go from one to the other and the sound just seems to open up; you get far more of a feel for the timbre and tone of instruments; it's just more like they're really there. I'm not a believer in dissecting sound, dividing it into bass, mid, treble (let alone deep bass, mid bass, upper bass etc), so my review of any headphone would probably consist of one line having to do with how realistic it sounds--and maybe how comfortable it is. (Oh, and in that regard the HD650 wins hands down. The LCD-2 is comfortable enough but you never forget the weight). So rather than reviews, my advice to anyone and everyone is to compare the headphone in question with live music of their choice and buy accordingly. That way you're less likely to get caught up in forum BS, of which there's no shortage.
You think the LCD-2 is a lot better than the HD650? Why is that? I'm not disagreeing, just asking the question 
