Alright I'm back, got myself an amp and moderate hearing loss. The ear/face massage does compensate it though.
After these first few weeks I find I can't really use it for gaming, because I'm often on voicecall when I'm playing and it isolates sound so much it gets weird to talk when I have them on my ears (it's like talking with my ears plugged in, I don't like that), so for gaming I usually switch back to my EVOs.
It's fantastic for my electronic music, but it's not cooperating well with my metal too much. It kind of turns most metals I listen to into live performances - you know, when your favourite little metal band can only afford to book gigs in ****ty venues with ****ty sound systems, and so basically all you can hear all night is the drums. That's what it sounds like to me. My favourite metal album sounds like a swamp. If I didn't know what it sounds like, I wouldn't be able to tell what I'm hearing.
I still have to experiment with it though, because I really haven't listened to all that much metal lately. I have to further tweak my EQ settings too.
I'm about to get new earpads on it, because I still haven't got them which is actually a huge pain. Which ones should I go for? The Brainwavz or the 55X or something else?