« Doesn't hold a candle to other headphones »

I was comparing these to a pair of Shure SRH440's and AKG K240 Studios and these came in dead last. While they weren't awful or even exceptionally bad I feel they weren't even in the running compared to the AKG's. The high end on these was ice picky so I couldn't wear them too long without ear fatigue. The low end was flubbier so at higher volumes everything just started to mush together. These also aren't very natural sounding. They're more like audiophile headphones, EQ'ed to sound better so everything sounds good but doesn't give you a good representation of what something really sounds like. And since these are studio headphones that's a big problem. I prefer very natural sounding speakers so the heavy EQ'ed audiophile sound is a big turnoff to me. The problem with audiophile headphones vs flat response heads is that when mixing if the speakers are heavily EQ’ed to make things sound better then once you take your mix and put them through less than ideal speakers it’ll sound awful. If you have flat response headphones it’ll give you a true representation of what your mix really sounds like. So if you put it on a bad system it’ll sound fine, but on a great system it’ll sound even better. Another example would be, if you use EQ’ed speakers, made to have heavy bass, low mids, and heavy treble then in a car stereo it’ll have ice picky highs, muddy bass, and be so hard to understand from the lack of mids. If you use flat response headphones it’ll sound normal cause your reference tone with the headphones wasn’t EQ’ed heavily.

Also these had a pretty bad clamp feeling on my head. They press together crushing your ears so I got a headache pretty fast as well as my ears stung. These may be great for just listening but that's not what I was looking for, these were to be strictly studio headphones. I sometimes wear headphones for hours on end so they need to be very comfortable. All headphones will start to hurt eventually but these were within minutes. I don’t have a big head so that wasn’t the problem, these just squeeze too much for me.