The sad part about the headphone market - especially over the ear models - is that the sound they produce is so far from natural, that no one knows what thinks actually sound like anymore.  Beats headphones are a perfect example and are probably the worst offender of them all.  This ends up affecting everyone - even those of us who choose a pair of headphones that are &quot;flat&quot; or better at being acoustically transparent.  Just as recording and mastering engineers learned to change the sound of their albums to sound better on small little &quot;boom boxes&quot; in the 80&#x27;s and early 90&#x27;s, today they alter the sound so they work on these grossly inaccurate headphones.