Related to this, I don't think that I've been around for about a month. I got my brother a pair of Sennheiser 800S for his birthday. He seems very happy with them (and was using them with the amp today). He had a pair of the 600's, and he put those into "retirement" after we both got a pair of 598's last Black Friday because his 15-year-old 600's were getting pretty worn. He really liked the 600's, but he didn't want to ruin them, so he stopped using them. When I was browsing Amazon a couple of weeks before his birthday and saw the new 800S model, I just knew it was the right gift for him. Way more than I'd ever spend on headphones for myself, but that's what gifts are all about, right?