No offense, it's a valid question (maybe I should be flattered that anybody even bothered to research anything I have had to say). I've covered some of this history earlier in this thread. I was a big 650 fan from the first day they came out but gradually started dabbling with the more expensive phones and eventually let the 650's go. Over the next few years, I went from the HD800's to Stax 007's to LCD-2R2's (2 years), then the LCD3 for a year. During that time, the Sennheiser amp became a favorite of mine with the LCD-3's. In November, my favorite dealer Music Direct had a very good deal on 650's and the balanced cable, so just for the heck of it I got it to go along with my Sennheiser amp. As I've said before, I never expected the 650's to sound better than the LCD-3's but they absolutely did. I always suspected it was due to the great synergy between the Sennheiser amp and headphones but it sounded way better than I ever remembered it. As time has passed over the past couple months, my enthusiasm for the 650's has not diminished at all. My statement in the post you quoted was based on an old and incorrect memory of how the 650's sounded relative the flagships and I should not have made it so definitively. However, I did a lot of actual comparison between the LCD-3 and the 650 and there was no doubt at the time I sold the LCD-3's.
and it wasn't my first time (4th).
