I like image the best of them all. Nothing like hearing music being reproduced as it was intended by the artist.
You know, this brings up an interesting point.
What does everyone like in terms of the equalization or 'shape' of their sound? Do they like it a bit bass heavy, or sharped highs, or flat, or neutral, or naturalized?
Personally, I've been spoiled by working with a great sound engineer friend of mine. He taught me to hear for things during mixdown and live productions--it's not easy. But then again, we had great equipment as our tools--Sennheiser headphones, Mackie monitors, among the regular stuff like Shure sm58s.
My friend has a set of Mackie powering studio monitors at home for mixdown and that sound has become the reference by which I judge everything else now because of it 'untainted' and very 'true' sound. My AKGs do the same. But now everything else sounds so badly in comparison.
