silentservices,
i accept your admited apology and am thankful that you now see what was done wrong. not only did you unintentionally stir up sh@!, but you continued to do so by posting more of the same mumbo jumbo in order to again unintentionally stir up sh@#. just know in the future that we head-fiers require that in order to make sound judgments of headphones, one must have at least average, or above average listening environments...meaning adequate equipment to do the task at hand. you can't judge a 20k speaker by running it off of a cheap, 100$ Sony receiver, can you? i didn't think so! it just doesn't make any sense. it would be like me judging your particular Yamaha headphones after running them off of just a crappy pcdp alone. it doesn't hold true to the said headphones true capability. i hope you can understand this, and will hopefully learn to give any future headphones you audition a fair shot by running them off of adequate audio equipment. even more, just because you assume that most of Sony's and Sennheiser's budget line of headphones all sound equally crappy, doesn't mean it is true. many companies such as Sony and Sennheiser have their one of two headphones in their budget line that have such a quality that matches headphones costing twice as much as they are sold for. phones such as the Sony CD1700, or Sennheiser HD280 (or some of their PX series...not sure which model it was) have very nice sound that i'm sure rivals your precious Yamahas. oand one more thing, which is probably the most important thing you couldlearn from this. whe opinion is at all involved in a situation, such as the one we're in, nothing can EVER be regarded as fact or set in stone. what you might think is crappy sounding, or not worth the money in any way, might be another story for another. i for one most likely consider some of the Sennheiser phones you consider as unworthy, as great headphones for their type of sound and rice range. so again, anything that has to do with opinion is never fact...only in your own mind should it be considered anywhere near fact, which even then you should leave open to possibility, opinion, and an open-mind type of thought.