I talked to this guy.
He has a very sad story.
You see, he HAD the ER6's....
He HAS the MX500's.....
he recently started buying cd's, and has about 30 of them.
He bought a 20 gig Rio Riot mp3 jukebox player.
He uses MusicMatch to make his CD's into mp3's...
He returned the ER6's after they didn't blow him away.
See a few problems here?
1. He doesnt have a good portable cd player
2. He spent $400 on a MP3 Jukebox that he DID NOT NEED, ESPECIALLY with so few CD's, and for school use... and refuses to sell this monstrous POS that is horrendous for his needs.
3. He rips and encodes mp3's with a very low sound quality program
4. He judged --and returned-- the ER6's because they didn't sound good, when they were showing how much his source sucks. Doesn't EVERYONE know the saying, "Garbage in, Garbage out", how even the highest fidelity headphone will sound mediocre at best with a source like his??
5. He sent the Ety's back after ten days. I don't even know if he tried them with a different source. He says he put them in real deep, and assumed he was getting a good seal..
5. Even after knowing all of this, he refuses to cut his losses, sell the Rio, go to CD, buy the Ety's, and have a good sounding systemm...
This is very, very sad...
Now, my nitpicks here are not "oohhh, he didn't go and buy a CD-based system!" I wouldn't mind if he didn't go and buy CD. It would SUIT HIS NEEDS, as he only has 30 CD's, but he, for some reason, got enamored with the '20 gigs! WOAH!' of the Riot... Even though I doubt he will ever use that much. Now, what he COULD have done, if he wanted to spend that much $$, is gotten an iPod or a PJB100, both of which would have provided better music quality. Also, he isn't *creating quality mp3's!* There is no Exact Audio Copy ripping them, and there is no LAME encoder encoding them! How can you judge the quality of headphones through garbage musicmatch mp3's? If he wants to make mp3's, he should check out the guides at
www.r3mix.net.
If there is anything that is a pet peeve with me, it's seeing someone waste money.... and getting wooed by useless features...