hakunamakaka
1000+ Head-Fier
This is a good explanation. It helps me understand the different ways we hear the same headphone.
I am quite sensitive to elevations in the upper midrange, and still feel very lucky to find the D8000, one of the few headphones I've heard that is very detailed and accurate, but doesn't give me a headache in the process...
My ears are not young anymore and I do come from reference sounding HP's so stock form of D8000 was a bit too polite. With stock form D8000 goes alive only if I increase volume quite a bit but I want to save my remaining hearing as I'm aging.