Heheheh... I didn't want to mention the flaws of the MDR-V600's again, but those V600's have WAY overboosted upper bass and lower midrange, with little (if any) low bass response to speak of. The upper midrange is VERY depressed, making vocals sound REALLY distant. And the treble... TREMENDOUSLY grainy, to say the least!!
And they produce all sorts of echoing, ringing and honking resonances, to boot!
Now for a rant that I had known all along, and "preached" by Gluegun...
[RANT]
When I first heard the name Sony, in the 1970's, its portable black-and-white TVs were WAY better in quality than comparable sets from RCA and Panasonic. That tradition continued when the first headphones in the MDR-V###DJ line were introduced (in 1985, with the MDR-V6, which was/is GOOD). But sometime in the late 1980's, Sony's advertisers coined the term "Sony Quality" - and that's when the downfall of Sony began. That downfall accelerated in 1992 and 1993, when the value of the Japanese yen became very high versus the value of the U.S. dollar - and that's when Sony began cheapening (or decontenting) the quality of its consumer electronics (hence, the introduction of the MDR-V600 and the MDR-V900 - those headphones didn't compete at all well with comparably-priced closed headphones from most other brands). A few years later, the value of the U.S. dollar rose against the value of the Japanese yen - but that came at a time when Japan itself was suffering from SEVERE economic troubles. So those crappy, overpriced Sonys remain crappy and overpriced. And at about the same time Sony has introduced a whole slew of cheaply-designed, cheaply-made, highly stylish and mediocre-performing consumer electronics at VERY high prices. And as the years passed, Sony has made each successive new product even cooler-looking, even higher-priced, and even more mediocre-performing - until we get to the mess that we're in now: people thinking that Street Styles and w.ears sound good, people thinking that the MDR-VCRAPDJ series sounds good, and people thinking that a higher price equals a better-quality product. (Gyah!
I hate that!!) However, there is a bit of good news here: Some models of the CURRENT G-Protection Sony CD Walkman (formerly Discman) line perform
better than last year's versions of those same models, so all is not lost.
[/RANT]
TIA
Randall
