Right out of the gate he opened up with Audiophool Nonsense Excuse #0001: "You just don't have golden ears!" so I disregarded the rest.
So... Right out of the Gate... you failed due to your Butthurt Bias.
What do you think about a Chef that smokes often? Do you think they have the same palette as someone whom does not smoke?!
NOPE!
The Truth does not care about what you FEEL. Its merely is or is Not.
If you have a low level of tastebud receptors... you can eat almost anything... and consider it absolutely wonderful... as your depth of sense
would be limited in such a way... as potentially to not be able to taste something that is "Off ". I have met several people like this... whom
have recommended certain estamblishments to eat at... with RAVING positive reviews. I take one bite... and I am instantly regretting it. >_<
The same of true for the Eyes. Many people on this site... took an Online color Test. There were like 120 colored boxes, and you had to
arrange them perfectly, in spectrum shade and order. This was not an easy test... as many of the colors looked so close to each other... that
it was hard to tell them apart. It took me a good amount of time to complete the test... but I actually scored 100%. However... I was
quite shocked to see that many other people were getting 60% or far lower. It turns out... that many people lack the ability to sense
certain color hues. They are not color blind... but simply, see less shades of each color. To them... them may see 10 shades of Red... and
all of them look 100% the same... where as I... and many others... can see all 10 different shades, very clearly and easily.
Sound is no different. Some people have different hearing abilities. Part of this is due to different shapes of the ears. Part is due to limited
sensory ability. Part is due to actual hearing damages. I have met many people whom experience audio very differently. I tend to turn up
treble and bass... lowering the midrange. Yet... I had a friend whom could not stand high treble... and had to blast the midrange spectrum...
because he clearly could not hear it on the same level as me. Another guy I met, liked my Sennheiser headphones... but chose to order some
AKG headphones. I tried them on... and the midrange was way too over-powering. I tried everything I could to reduce it... but they were so
over-blasted... that no amount of EQ could regulate them to an acceptable level. He found them to be perfectly awesome... and so obviously,
his mid-range reception ability... was not very good.
This is why you see so many headphone reviews all over the map. Part of this is because people are using poor under-powered amps.
Part is because people are not using High-Quality audio sources. Some of it is because people are not properly EQ-ing the audio to
make the most of their headphones. Some is due to poor quality Amps. And finally... some is due to everyone's different Audio Sensory
abilities.
I placed that FACT up front... to denote the reality. Just because "I", and maybe 85% of the rest of the world can hear the differences
between an Audiophile headphone... and a POS generic headphone... does not mean that YOU will be able to experience the same thing...
should you decide to invest in better, and sometimes more expensive... equipment.
But... if You DO have a decent set of ears... then you Should read on... in that you may be lead to a whole other level of
experience. Something so radical... that you still do not even know exists / is possible. Something that will turn your
current idea of an audio experience of "7 out of 10"... into a 2. Something so profound... that you will find that you end
up having a pair of HD Headphones on your head... for over 10hrs out of every day... as you can not accept anything beneath
this experience, anymore. That is how much Difference there is. It will literally change your life.