[Regarding Gecko's post] Part of what I like about headphones is I need not worry about room acoustic alterations, so the bass I hear should be better in that regard. One might worry about how closely their personal HRTF matches the averaged one used in the design of their particular 'phones, true, but that usually has nothing to do with the bass response, it is usually a response compensation only applied at 2 kHz, or so, and up.
Although probably every single recording studio in the world has at least one if not several different headphones at hand to listen to mixes, my understanding is that the final mixes and the overall tonal balance is almost always determined by the sound through speakers, not headphones. [Although this fad of preferring over emphasized bass may apply to the speakers they typically use as well, I don't know]
Although probably every single recording studio in the world has at least one if not several different headphones at hand to listen to mixes, my understanding is that the final mixes and the overall tonal balance is almost always determined by the sound through speakers, not headphones. [Although this fad of preferring over emphasized bass may apply to the speakers they typically use as well, I don't know]