I'm still leaning toward the Superlux, even if the SR850 is available from a local brick-and-mortar retailer albeit with a nasty sting in the tail:
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/headphones-dj/microphones/samson/samson-sr850-c01-microphone-headphones-pack/69130/
Of all the voices that dont bear the addition of a mike. mine would be in the top 10%
Also stumbled upon this:
to k
http://www.head-fi.org/t/575504/samson-sr-850-what-in-the-bloody-hell
Dovetails nicely with my earlier assertion that many of us are bassheads, pure and simple, and have no business messing with cans that dont have that bass thump. I've also been here long enough to know that unhappy campers seem to generate a lot more keystrokes than their happier comrades, esp with an FOTM, and the prospect that they have a defective pair of cans rarely seems to occur to said campers.