See the thing is with headphones to the inexperienced ear you don't hear much of a difference when listening to better headphones. Ill be honest. When I first got my m50s, I couldn't hear a difference between them and my m6. Only after a while, a few hours maybe, then I started to hear the difference when moving back to the m6. Same thing goes for HD TVs. When you first use a component cable and then switch to HDMI you don't really see a difference but after a while when you switch back, the difference is huge. Listening to headphones for a few minutes isn't enough to truly judge a headphone unless you have a "golden ear". You have to get accustomed to how it sounds,its strengths and weaknesses and then you can judge it. That's why I barely ever let my friends try out my headphones anymore and if I ever do I just turn up the bass on the eq because that really the only difference most people look for. At least with the bass turned up you get compliments like "the bass on this is sick just like beats" instead of "lol these suck there's like no bass, you should have gotten beats, you got ripped off bro."