QUOTE=Philco;4462215]I think you didn't understand what I was trying to tell you. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
What I was trying to say is that I don't think you really have to compare Ultrasone to Beyer (or any other headphone) with such a great passion. It's not like it's a competition between headphones and I agree to disagree, as I said, I'm fine with my Beyers and I don't want to try the Ultrasone. It's just that you always seem to imply your Ultrasone are WAY better than anything else out there (i.e. "the others were second place to my Ultrasone Proline 750") and this attitude is what I question.
In my mind, there is no doubt that a DT990-2005 will TROUNCE my DT770 and that's why I'm looking to upgrate. I never felt like I held up the DT770 as the best headphone in the world, but for presenting me the audio as it is, I think they are much better than other cans and they do it for me.
About the fact that your want to compare the models and inform the community, what you could do, maybe, is try all models, take some notes and then write a good detailed review of your findings in a new thread. When writing this review, try to be objective. You sound a lot like you are partial to Ultrasone to me. It's like "yeah I love Ultrasone so I'm going to push them all the way in my review" but I don't think the world is as black and white as that.
Also, what I said in the other thread concerns that particular thread and not this one. I'm not angry in any other way except some technical aspects of audio that many don't seem to grasp.[/QUOTE]
Philco, Here is my reply:
I actually like the sound of the 770 Pro. I have always said that all of this is simply a matter of personal taste. And, all I was saying was that I, speaking solely for myself, preferred the sound of the Pro 750's. Indeed, if I would have not discovered them, I probably would have purchased the 770's. And, even at that, I preferred the sound of the 990's to the 770's but I had more of a need for a closed headphone.
You will notice in my posts when I write about Ultrasone headphones that the only ones I write about in regards to their sound and their performance are the Pro (Proline) 750's, 2500's and 650's. I do not write about the other Ultrasone headphones because I have never heard them, unless, of course, if I'm asking a question about them. And, of the three Ultrasones I've heard, I like them in varying degrees.
Sometime I will do a review, comparing a number of headphones. And, I promise to be impartial. I have one challenge to that impartiality: I like the Pro 750's sound stage. I will want to go beyond that to judge other areas of the sounds of the different headphones. I've done this once but I have come to realize that there were factors that I did not take into consideration such as "burn-in" time (I find no reference to it in my notes).
There certainly is a lot of differing opinions about the Pro 750. Another headphone that has strong differing opinions is the AKG K701. My opinion is that I like it's accurate sound. The only minor dislike I have for it is the sound of it's low end which has never seemed strong enough to me. Where the opinions of others is concerned, I have seen comments on the K701 which varied from comments such as "great, my favorite..." to a comment contained in a PM from another Head-Fi member recently where the K701's sound was described as "lack luster". My point here goes back to the idea that, it's all a matter of personal taste and what causes people to be so different in their tastes is a very interesting question.