good review....'closet basshead'.....lol...that was the term I have been using in my mind all along to describe some of you guys and others in the headfi community. It's ok, you can wear the badge. Come out and let us all know where you stand so we can determine whether your advice or how your impressions can be used to inform our purchase decisions. By keeping it hidden, it just makes things harder. If it helps ease the shame, just call yourself an audiophile basshead. But either way the unconscious sense of shame is there for a reason, and that is because bass is addictive like crack or heroin. That's why I often refer to bassheads as addicted to the rush like a crackwhore. It's hard to go back to a leaner more natural sound the same way it's hard to go back to a life with the aches and pains associated with opiate free living. Natural sound doesn't punch as hard or as tight as even audiophile basshead sounds or at least it is often overdone in some subtle ways. Ever played drums, bass or seen live music? The natural bass drum is not super tight unless it is processed by effects. In any case closet basshead is one of the most usefull terms i've come accross on this forum and descriptive of current trends in the early 21st century. It's ruining the taste for natural sound and there may be no going back !
