Excellent exposure, dismaying content.
I'm glad that Head-fi got press in the NYT and even more glad the author linked to this site and mentioned Headroom prominently.
On the nether hind, I thought this a wretched intro to headphones by a journalistic anachronism who would have been at the forefront of the neophyte zeitgest in 2001 but is culturally inexcusable in 2012. If I'd been her editor, I would have insisted the writer do far more research and resubmit the article, since the NYT is the kind of newspaper that pulled its Circuits Section after deciding that gadget obsessions were no longer "cutting-edge." Whether you agree with their column writers or not, the NYT tries not to publish the profoundly uninformed.
I'm also surprised and pleased you're a fan of The New York Times, Jude. Almost no one who lives in NYC is, which makes that old eroding stonehenge, Scrypt, feel a tad isolated in his enjoyment of same. Marxist and indy leftist friends dismiss the editors as fascist tools, and some of my conservative friends notch their noses skyward at the paper's supposedly "leftist" orientation (really centrist democrat according to the classic definition, as certain of our British members might confirm).
All of which overlooks the fact the NYT is fun to read when the individual contributors are good, which happens to be often.
Head-fi's getting into the NYT signals the right cultural forces are paying attention, which is why I clink glasses with my grillfiend whenever I merit a tiny photo and/or mention in their Metro blog. Far easier than breaking into the real paper, let alone, a featured section, as Head-fi has done here.
You've every right to be pleased and to call for a virtual celebration.