I'm busy responding to this idiot's "review." I'd rather not ban him right now, but first prefer to expose him for the fool he is:
Daniel, I've heard good things about the ES5s, and hope they are as good as everyone says. Your "review," however, is just another example of why you're not welcome anywhere. You just make shit up to support whatever you're liking at the moment, from the 530 to the 13 to whatever else. I'm not going to pick apart every bit of your writing here, because it's too easy, and I have better things to do, but on first glance:
Seriously. You don't know what you're talking about here. I'm going to suggest the drum and bass music you listen to might have something to do with your experience. It's also evident by your comment that you've never been in a top-notch professional recording studio, and have limited experience, if any, with home theater subwoofers. You're just trying to make your words sound true, but you're writing bullshit.
WTF? I've heard lots of headphones with recessed and/or bumped midranges when listening to music. No midrange anything is responsible for introducing sibilance, and I've not experienced what you're talking about at all with stating that the 13s midrange is recessed, which to me means recessed to the point of altering the sound of the recording.
My memory may be failing, but 3-7khz is the sibilance range, and also the range that gets a slight bump in much popular music so as to make things sound louder. Since I've listening to my JH13s near daily for well over a year, and had no issue with sibilance (and I had my hearing tested at the audiologist last year, and my hearing is perfect in this range), either you're making things up again to make a point, or it's the music you listen to bringing it about.
As far as I know, you have never owned the HD800s. Why would you make this comparison? More bullshit.
Glad you like the ES5, but your writing doesn't tell us anything other than that you continue to say anything to support your FOTM. You then troll the forums with this bullshit, and since your writing isn't about the headphones, but about trying to make yourself sound important when you don't know fuck all about the things you're saying, you piss people off.