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What exactly does bass quantity mean? It's interesting you also own the much more expensive D2000's. Would you say compared to the FA-011's they earn their price tag? What equipment did you try it with and which genre of music/activities such as games, movies etc? D2000's should obviously sound better in every aspect but it'd put a smile on my face if a potential purchase was able to get close to something that's not really in it's class.
Bass quantity for me could be interpreted as more of a midbass hump I guess - the bass notes are louder, but you don't feel them quite as much (less impact).
For what I paid ($200), the D2000 was worth the extra. At the normal retail price these days ($350-400), I would say no though. I'm running them just off my E10 right now, which works ok - I've used them for games (pretty good, better bass rumble than the FA-011s, more comfortable, but smaller soundstage), rock, pop, electronic, and indy/alternative. They do really, really well with electronic - bass resolution is excellent and they go really deep. The D2000s do well with the others, but the difference over the FA-011s isn't as big. As I said earlier, the one thing that the FA-011s really win on for me is the mids, especially vocals. On the D2000, they feel recessed, like the singer is standing behind the rest of the band. It's not bad and after a while, you stop noticing it, but after listening to the FA-011 for 3 months, I noticed it right away. The FA-011 mids, in comparison are fairly up-front and very, very smooth.
The D2000 in general has more clarity, better bass extension and impact, better comfort, and better isolation. The FA-011 has better mids and a larger soundstage. However, the only thing that it gets truly spanked in by the D2000 is the bass extension and impact - the others are relatively minor differences. I think that's pretty amazing considering the price differential. Some of that is probably due to the law of diminishing returns, which is especially noticeable in headphones - I think that $200 is pretty much the sweet spot in price/performance. I've heard some higher-end headphones, and while I could tell that they were better, they weren't multiple hundreds to $1000+ better.
