i've got some cash, so i'd like to buy some new phones to replace my beat up 201s, which i like precisely because they don't have an exaggerated bass response. i don't listen to bass-heavy music and don't want bass-heavy phones. it just ruins the mids, mostly - which is where most of the detail in the music i like is.
maybe i can try to find some 201s for now, but i understand what the problem is - people listen to everything on mp3, so the phones are designed to compensate. and, that's the market, now. if you want to listen to a flat signal, you need to pay for it.
