I am sad because their soundstage outperforms the Denon D1001 as well as the Shure 440: Two of the best closed backs money can buy for around $100.00.
They are not nearly as nice as the Sennheiser HD 485 or 555 which are similarly priced, though, open backs are vastly superior to closed in really every way >.> I am not saying they are GODLY, but look at it from this point of view. A set of stock earbuds performs equally as good as $100.00 over the ears. Their sound source location ( meaning where the sound seems to originate, like in bad sets they seem very distant like a guy with a megaphone down the street, to high on your ears like expensive sets offer) flat out cream the D1k and 440. The location is ideal, like two speakers right next to your ears, up close sounding. That is what I am looking for.
The detail and sound produced is absolutely a gamers dream. Not one set of my over the ears can achieve this, not even the HD 600. When there is a player to my right behind a corner moving, I can hear those footsteps on both sides of my HD 600. A lot on the side it came from and a little from the totally opposite side, which caused massive confusion and i cant even tell you how many times ive died because of this, when music plays or something else is happening, i cant tell where that sound came from...In these Sansa buds, they are always precise, I can tell exactly where that sound just came from. Its a dream. This is something I would have to pay many Hundreds of $ to get in over the ears.
As I said the sansa bud sound quality is meh, pretty dang good for buds but nothing special. However its soundstage is freaking fantastic. This upsets me a lot, but as I said also makes me happy.
