Tested them side by side with a pair of 800 euro audiophile headphones and I Hated the audiophile ones, whilst after adjusting these with the Sony app and Wavelet (an EQ app I love to use on my phone), these are my favorite headphones, period. You need to understand that for the majority of people those sound amazing, I am one of them. Tried to enjoy audiophile stuff, I hated it, because it was too serious. I want to have fun with sound. That's my opinion, but I never went out of my way to call the said audiophile headphones "trash" - cause they ain't. We all just have different tastes.