It might help convince if you have some objective reasons why..
As I actually also don't agree with the not recommend status:
Here are some (mostly subjective reasons) why (and some STAX comparison):
- Generally those headphones have a full response (not a super fan of Harman +6db, personally I would do +3db <100Hz above flat)
- with the bass being (for me) like 3db too low and the treble around 1-2db to low (I would not complain about the trebble part)
- but generally it is well extended (actually they EQ quite well)
- only it is kind of reversed slightly 'V' signature
- they are also very clean (not artificially clean)
- it is easy to extract (even some sub-bass) information [with the difference with STAX Lambdas, where there is for me like boost around 50 db, but there is no 20=30-40Hz? content completly; the linear bass shown sometimes for Lambdas is a theoretical concept for: probably when the angled drivers are being forced to be parallel? ]
- no distortion in the bass and very smooth treble
- in summary both treble and bass are not in your face but it is easy to extract information
- the mids are pushed in a way that is very hard to describe, like very wide but small boost above fundamental frequencies: some people might actually like/love that
- it is kind of if you had a coloring book and mids would be precolored by laser print/marker, and rest of spectrum would be colored by pencil crayons [bit different what STAX does, when the boost in the mids can by described by "honky" or something similar, and might be more annoying]
- generally lightweight, not offending sound
- additionally those have large but rather 2d headspace (compared with smaller and 3D space of Lambdas: angled drivers?) with fairly sized instruments
- which basically adds on to the fact that it is really easy to extract information (I used this phrase for the 3rd time
) from this headphone, even though noting is really in your face
- this headphone kind of grows on you (generally such statement is indicative of problems, but here it has more to do with the relaxed character and some mid-focus, where some parts might feel like missing, espacially if you expect something out of ordinary)
- not much of a wow-factor (maybe withthe exception of a large feeling for freedom/expanse in the headspace) so I do understand people which are underwhelm by it [by comparison with STAX 307 you get that bass boost, at least with pop music, and the 3D/holographic soundstaging + that boost near 1kHz which make the voices stand up from the rest: somewhat artificial? clearness of sound]
- very light weight on your head: you almost don't feel them [contrary to stax, where at minimum the pads are too shallow]