Trust me, I’m still very much tempted to use the silicone ears as Halloween decor and just slap foam and felt discs on to turn these into a flat plate coupler— at least then I might be able to generate useful impulse responses, CSDs, spectrograms etc. The fact that this EARS set was generously gifted to me by someone on a different forum (gee, wonder which one :P) means that I’ve no real compunctions about mutilating these XD
Back on topic, the sub-bass tilt definitely lends itself to movies! The middle-midrange hump also helps with vocal clarity, making it easy to follow dialogue; as for the mid-treble zing, it only ever really bothers me on music with loads of air to begin with, so it’s largely a non-issue. There’s definitely enough “space” in the headstage, but while the reverb does seem to improve sound localisation it does bollix things when there’s a lot going on. Just a limitation of the form factor I suppose.
Quick aside: I’m too much of a wimp (and frankly, not rich enough) to buy and play many horror games myself so I usually watch other people go through them on YouTube (shush, I know it’s a stupid interest, haha). I was watching someone play a relatively new horror game called Visage using the TH-X00s and there was an instant when I felt my eyeballs rattle in my head during a particular scene where the game was establishing a sense of tension via loads of low-frequency rumbles. It was memorable, to say the least.
Actual bass quality isn’t great on the X00s, but it’s not something you’d notice unless you were directly comparing to better, usually pricier headphones, given you’re driving them properly. I know they’re not for everyone, but I genuinely love the hell out of the X00 series and would probably still be using mine regularly if I hadn’t found another headphone that I largely (not categorically) prefer.