After I'd had my MS-1 for a few months I realized that I really wanted something a bit better, so I did a search on everything I could find here, and wherever else I could find stuff about the MS2 and RS2(I called it my "Battle of the Twos"!)Yup; after a bunch of study, the two twos were the top two.
So anyway; I went all the way back to day one for both of these two twos and read everything I could set my eyes on and what I learned was that the MS2 and MS2i were right from day one about the only model from most any manufacturer that had almost no negatives written about it. About the only reason they were sold was when folks wanted something quite similar, only better, and usually with wooden housings, not because they had any complaint about the MS2/MS2i, they just wanted to move up. Some folks had a problem with the weight of course, and about comfort, but almost, or very very few, complaints at all about SQ. The impression I got from comparing the MS2i to the MS-Pro and RS-1 through as many comments as I could get my monitor around, was that the MS2i SQ was like 85-90% of its wooden brethrin.
This couple of month MS2i Dry Spell really is quite unusual for the breed, ain't never happened before in the history of this forum. I guess if people can afford to move on and have a higher quality system that will support a higher quality set of cans; they will, and that's cool.
Where's the MS2i Fan Club these days? Shucks; I dunno.
But in my estimation, the MS2i is in about the same class as the Sennheiser HD600 in materials, build quality, and SQ, and I find that the MS2i and HD600 are a perfect compliment to each other at the opposite ends(but with bunches of overlap in the middle)of the musical spectrum. So that puts in it very good company all by itself.
