[Trevor]

"Frank Stearns" wrote in message
acquisition...
Ty's probably hit it on the head with these phones -- they will alert you
to
distortion elsewhere in the system; they might even exaggerate such
distortion if
they themselves are already at the threshold of audible distortion.
Doesn't take
much more to make distortion clearly audible.

I'd prefer to know I've got a distortion problem I can fix, rather than a
distortion problem in the headphones that I can't fix though. Combining the
two simply makes the job harder IMO.

Trevor.