besides all the quality/cost and intimacy things,
there is a 'viscious-circle' thing that goes on here becomming self-perpetuating.
[begin cycle]
you realise how good it sounds . . .
a smile comes to your face
. . . . .
you then realize what you have been missing . . .
you then learn how to listen and hear . . .
and you find that there is 'better' available . . .
so you wonder what else you are still missing . . . .
someone tells of how much better it
could sound . . . .
so you upgrade . . . .
you realise how great it sounds . . .
a smile comes to your face
. . . . .
[/repeat cycle]
a few months later your venture out to buy 'a pair of headphones' has turned into an obsession, you have more phones than ears and other orifaces combines, a bunch of amps, and you are on the constant prowl for
eargasms
that's it, blame the eargasms