Validation

..., except that nothing comes up on my computer.

The notion that I require validation from someone else is beyond the pail.

  My audiophile circle consists of one person, that being myself.  Every one else that I know feels just fine with those buds that Apple use to give away with iPods.  If my acquaintances knew what I spent on my system that would seriously begin talking with my wife about an intervention 

Irrelevant. Everybody has subjective and objective differences in hearing. Everybody. If you like it, that's all that matters.

I don't have many friends and the ones that are into music ,like my setup....and  I like it and that's all that matters to me...