It's funny. I mean, I love the HD800 and it's been my primary headphone for the longest time. But I am in total agreement with its detractors. Everything that say which is bad about it is true!

"Shove it in! More! More! Harder!" 

Lulz...

You're still being too direct.  They want you to dance around the shortcomings and only talk about what it's good for.

IMO there are basically two good ways to write a review.  One is is short, to the point, and judged against a predefined standard like you wrote.  The other type of good review is something that's in depth, fun to read, and discusses strengths and weakness of the product in a more abstract way that will better allow those with different tastes to get a feel for it.

Some people just want a word salad Headfonia/6moons style review though.

BTW, I love how you compared it to a cheap ML speaker with 'stats up top and normal woofers down low without even knowing that it's a 3 way with BAs for the mids and treble and a DD for the bass.  You totally called it...

IMO there are basically two good ways to write a review.  One is is short, to the point, and judged against a predefined standard like you wrote.  The other type of good review is something that's in depth, fun to read, and discusses strengths and weakness of the product in a more abstract way that will better allow those with different tastes to get a feel for it.

Some people just want a word salad Headfonia/6moons style review though.

+1

I can't stand reviewers who feel like "more is more" and are verbose just for the sake of being verbose. 90% of reviews I see are long without anything meaningful being said.

Not to say all long reviews are bad though. I quite enjoy LFF's reviews, for example, and they are pretty lengthy IIRC.

Shame about the K3003 though. The BA+DD sounds intriguing. Is it the first universal to use both?

Is there something difficult about bass response for BA's?  What was their rational for a dynamic bass driver, especially if it wound up sounding bloated and disjointed?  The JH13 seemed to have awesome bass from what I remember of the universals I heard. 

I agree with you Maverick.  I think the people reacting negatively towards Purrin's review are people who arent familiar with him and don't know what his reference is, or sonic goals are.  Which is kind of understandable.  If you know his reference and ideal, than Purrin's review is great, because you get it straight and quick and don't have to skim through millions of adjectives.  But if I read a review like that and didn't know the person or what they were comparing to or what they wanted out of a rig, it would mean absolutely nothing to me.   Basically, you're trusting the reviewer's judgement.  So if someone's favorite phones were the GS1000, then it wouldn't work at all (for me)