Headphones are a completely different way of listening to music. Believe it or not, you can easily spend as much money on a good headphone system as on a good 2-channel stereo system. Of course, there are as many snake-oil products available for headphone enthusiasts (headphiles) as there are for speaker enthusiasts. One product that I have yet to see (but am expecting any minute) is a specially shaped q-tip that contours your ear wax just so....