http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stor...552921665089914
I'm looking at the Sony MDR-V6s right now. It's a good, proven design with a lot of features that I like. They don't break and they last people for decades. Both consumer and professional reviews are really excellent, too. I can get them for about $65.00 shipped free from amazon. Their Frequency response chart looks really good, too.
To answer some of your questions:
I don't think I saw any Bose products there because if they had included a Bose product all of these "Audiophile" people would have discredited the site. It would be like Bitog taking on Fram as a sponsor.
I don't have good sources because there is background noise in both of my computer line-outs (not much, but it is there). Now my two Sony Walkmen and the Ipod (1st gen shuffle) I have are another story, but that's where the media comes into play. I'm usually playing MP3s which don't have the same quality and fidelity as a proper format like a CD or something like a .FLAC file. I'd like to get better quality recordings, but sometimes they don't exist and even if they did we're talking about 35,000+ MP3s. I listen to a lot of stuff that's old or poorly recorded like Jimmie Rodgers, DJ Screw, Townes Van Zandt, and other stuff that was recorded haphazardly, live, or before good equipment was available. Even some of my favorite classical performances include noise in the recordings that comes to light on even a cheap set of headphones.
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However, if you keep saying "and I don't care what anybody says..." don't research, because that's what you will be doing, if you research on boards like headphone.com, and it's kinda rude, esp. 'cause you asked why Bose might be not so good compared to others, and after i provided all that info, and took time to type all that.
OK, here's where you need to understand something. I said I don't care what anybody thinks because this wasn't supposed to be a thread where everybody comes through and [censored] on my choice of headphones and takes it off topic by doing so. I knew people would do that and I tried to avoid taking the subject off topic before it ever went that way. So don't look at me like I made a bad decision by saying that, and don't tell me I'm rude. Nobody ever asked for your opinion. It's rude to come into somebody's thread and do what you did. It was supposed to be a thread about a pleasant Customer Service experience. And, you know what? I STILL have not seen anything from anybody who said the Bose were bad headphones. A lot of these nerds don't like them and I still don't care. I only discovered that there is a known design flaw, and I'm grateful that I did. At the same time, I will continue to tell people that Bose customer service is stellar.
Again, thanks for helping me see that there are better ways to spend my money, but it would be wrong to say that the Bose headphones don't sound good. They do. And I don't care what anybody thinks about that.
