Headphones vs speakers

I should add that I like to preserve my hearing which is actually still pretty decent......

No- speakers to headphones is a sonic step backwards. I view headphones as a solid choice for those on a tight budget.  I own both.

However, I have a portable DAP I plan to get running sometime.

It is possible to design an headphone  which can rival most speakers... Even giving you bass in the chest...

but the cost of research and portable necessity and low cost perhaps makes it less urgent if your crowd buy any simple  headphones anyway at any price...

@larsman    I can't imagine that, but then, I have a really good headphone system. 

No worries. I was being hyperbolic for sure, but the thread was headphones VERSUS speakers.

I have Sennheiser HD580 with their own amp, and while I like them, the notion that this kind of interaction with music could replace being-in-actual-space with music is, to me, deserving of hyperbole. It's so far from what it's like to listen to music, or anything else, that it couldn't possibly replace speakers.

Comments above about having to downsize change the original issue. That's different.

Now that my living situation has no "need" for headphones, i almost never use them anymore...