Because there was bass, yes, but the vocals sounded as if they came from a harsh tweeter.

Voices sounded thin/ again the mids were missing, it sounded more like a subwoofer with a harsher tweeter.

But here, it sounds like a subwoofer merged with a harsh tweeter.

Personally, I prefer "warm", natural sounding headphones, like a warm tone of a warm voice in an acoustic room with wood floors...not bright headphones that sound like there is a cheap turbo-charged tweeter in them.

n’t sound like a “high-end” headphone because of that

n’t sound like a “high-end” headphone because of that