No need to give a backhanded compliment to one company by trashing another.
Yes, that's been your opinion from the beginning, but that opinion seems based as much on preconceptions about "datedness" and modern sound as on facts. The fact is that the HD-25 is used widely for reference purposes and that makes it more useful for me (for one) than the M-80 and, by extension, possibly the M-100. Sound quality isn't fashion, so I'm not sure how "datedness" applies. Most DJs spin vinyl and vinyl is a pre-digital medium. Is it dated?
Profiles can be incomplete, but if yours is up to date, it looks as though you've never owned a pair of V-Moda headphones. Personally, I've owned two different models so far and I'm not as quick to condemn Sennheiser as you. Of the various Sennheiser models I've owned over the years -- HD270, HD280 Pro, HD580 and HD600 -- only one proved to be disappointing and the rest ranged from good to excellent. Of the two V-Modas I've owned so far, one was incredibly disappointing and the other (which I still own) is good. Likewise, the HD-25s are a better fit sonically for my personal use (though not necessarily others') than the M-80.
Of course, this is only my opinion.
If you're basing your idea of a good house sound on the history of each company -- Sennheiser vs. V-Moda -- then I'd have to say that Sennheiser has the better track record.
It's the extra aspects of the M-80 -- the craftsmanship, the case, the design, the extras, the customization aspect -- that make it a fun headphone to own in combination with its quite good but not stellar sound signature.
I appreciate the fact you didn't like the sound of your Amperiors enough to keep them. But why presume the Momentum is beneath everyone's interest just because you personally didn't like the Amperiors? And why repeat the mantra that the HD-25s and the Amperiors lack detail? Doing a quick search on Head-fi, I find that you seem to be one of the only people who feels that way. |Joker| doesn't agree with you at all. In fact, most evaluations I've read do not agree. That doesn't mean you're wrong, but it also shows you're not necessarily right.
Here's |Joker| on the HD25's level of detail (and he's an engineer who's heard a lot more headphones than either of us):
In your favor, he does say this:
You have every right to assert your feelings about what you perceive as a lack of detail, but why treat it as a fact, especially when so many variables are in play (amp, source, sound files, hearing, tastes, potentially misleading contrasts, personal definitions of detail)? There's a reason most of us qualify our opinions as such:
Personal taste is the wrong reason to talk someone else out of buying the headphones that will make them the happiest.
In the interests of sincere enterprise, effort, integrity and Valiant intentions, I'd like to believe that the M-100s will lay waste to everything in their price range. But historically, the most reliable company of the two in terms of sound is still Sennheiser -- not just twenty years ago, but two years ago as well.
Go and listen to the HD580, 600 and 650 and HD800. Then listen to the LP and M-80. Then come back and tell us what a disappointing company Sennheiser is in comparison to V-Moda. If V-Moda is the company we both think it is, then it doesn't need backhanded compliments. It needs practical feedback and brutal honesty.
After all, without the reaction against the LPs, we might not have had the M-80s, which means we wouldn't be expecting the M-100s.
(which do you think I spend more time on anyway, eh?)
