You want too much, but you don't think that you do, nor do you have the life experience to understand that you want too much.
You are bass obsessed as most young people are.
More bass==better sound quality, less bass==poor sound quality.
This is an age-related value, and nothing will fix it.
You don't appreciate subtley, soundstage, nuance, or fine detail - I don't even think you understand what those concepts mean and how they manifest when comparing audio components. Certainly your review displayed no awareness of them. Those qualities are ones that the 500 has.
*clears throat* ehrm, on a more serious and mature note, here is my reply:
This is not an age-related value, but more of a era or generation related value. I am 17, so I wasn't born in the time when music was still clean, well mastered, and not overloaded with bass. I am growing up in the time of the Loudness Wars, brick wall mastering, and a time of much misconception of what is good quality sound.
As with most stereotypes, while the stereotype may be correct, a stereotype is still a generalization and not all fall under it. That is where I come in. If you read the beginning of my original post I begin by saying, "I'm not an '
audiophile'. Let's start off by making that clear. I just like music, like most people. However, unlike the majority of people nowadays, the
quality of my music listening experience matters to me." It's not really my fault that I grew up becoming accustomed to overly bassy sound and whatnot. It's what I grew up with, and it was all that was around me. So excuse me if that is what I tend to prefer, but do acknowledge that I have realized that kind of sound is not really good and that I am looking for an alternative.
This review that I wrote was me making an observation and forming an opinion that this was not what I expected of this headphone, and based on what I read in reviews and what I was expecting I was disappointed by what I heard. Also, because this was a significantly large investment for me as a student, maybe I have set my expectations too high.
I actually do have an appreciation for subtlety, soundstage, nuance, and fine detail, or at least I am trying to. If you read my review and my responses to other posts, you would find that I talk about how I am having trouble finding that in this headphone, and I am having trouble finding all the things that people say about this headphone when I am listening to it, if that makes any sense. I am not saying that those qualities are not there, or that I don't care for them. I
want those qualities in a headphone, it's what I was looking for. I don't like a lot of bass and I don't like the large amount of bass the M50s have, but I felt that the HE-500s were really anemic. Also, I said that I really enjoyed the speed and quality of the bass on the HE-500 but it's the small quantity of that bass that I didn't like.
I feel like I am just repeating myself so I will stop.