[sgrossklass]

Imagine you went into a large electronics store and discovered a wall with a good two dozen cans hanging there, most of them playing - HD580, HD600 and HD650 included (along with HD497, MDR-CD480, DJX1 and more). The curious headphone geek will naturally approach and take a listen - only to be greeted by totally overdriven bass, shrill highs, in other words: sound as crappy as it gets, on all cans. Too bad, I never heard any of these before. I don't know what they were fed with (reminded me of a crappy PCDP with the bass boost jacked up), but I doubt a lot of headphones are sold there...

 

[Jahn]

Sounds like the "Wall of Shame" at J&R Music World here in New York City. Most of those places have the most horrible setups you can imagine. It's far better to go to a store which lets you set up a can the way you want, or even hook in stuff you bring in.