Well personally I'm not a fan of the LP2 but I haven't tried LP1 either, I like the build quality but in the end it's sound quality what I want to pay for where LP2 didn't fair well at all to me. Since I only use headphones at home I wouldn't mind if headphones were some pink colored hello kitty headphones as long as the sound would be good.
My issues:
- Highs way too recessed (EQd up 8kHz by 3.5dB an 16kHz by 5.5dB)
- Mids too unbalanced => peaky 1kHz and 4kHz area that makes especially female vocals sound a bit off
- Bass somewhat overhelming the mids and not the most textured kind
- Soundstage fairly average, the semi-closed design doesn't seem to help much on this headphone
- Pads not completely over-the-ear, too narrow inner-circumference
Soundwise to me they are worth aprox ~$75 without EQing, up to maybe $125 or so with optimal EQ settings. I thought for example the $35 Panasonic HTF600 to sound better, aprox 90~$100 worth sound quality without EQ and maybe $135 with EQing (still has tiny bit better soundstage than the LP2s). So while they are bass monsters, I would only get them if you just want to hear strong bass and like the design, otherwise go M80, you won't be missing the bigger bass response...
Worst thing is that I can't seem to get these buggers sold here in Finland and shipping costs is too high to send them abroad why I don't put up a FS here on this forums.
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