So, I have always been one of those people that listened to music to have background sound while working on something.

However, now... Now I am sitting here just listening to music. Why?

I was out, wanted to replace my crappy $15 in-ear headphones because they were just so bad sounding. I knew Sennheiser was a good brand, but didn't know if they had anything in my price-range. Poor college kid, just having moved to NYC, I didn't want to spend too much. I was at a Guitar Center with my roommates, and saw a pair of $30 Sennheisers (Sennheiser HD201). I asked if I could try them out, I plugged them in. Was impressed. They weren't fantastic sounding, but they were better than what I had. Mind you, my higher quality headset (Razer Megalodon, still not high quality in your eyes. Not in mine either anymore) was damaged and was getting RMAed and was sitting in Texas, back home at this point.

Anyways, I brought my Sennheisers home, loaded up foobar, and started listening to music. A few days later, I messed with the equalizer which fixed my major problem with them. They sounded flat. Like there was no variation in the ranges of sound (or so how I thought). The equalization gave them a bit of a kick, but I also heard a few pops in my 320kbps music. I got some FLAC versions of a few of my favorite songs, and listened to them. They sounded by far better than what I was listening to before.

So now, here I am on Thanksgiving break, sitting in my room in Texas, listening. Listening to music like I hadn't listened to it before. My Razer headset? Sitting on the ground.

It is amazing, how even low quality headphones from a high quality brand can sound so much better than headphones from every other brand I have tried (Skullcandy, Beats by Dre, Monster, Razer).

I am astounded. I finally see (hear?) clearly now. I want to get more into listening to music now with proper gear. It is amazing. I know that it can only go up from here.

Anyways, I was just wanting to say, I lurked in this sub from time to time, but now I think I am one to stay.