No headphones can ever compete with a big tower or subwoofer for bass punch or impact. Crank up the volume to cover the noise and you'll risk damaging your hearing over the long-term. The only way to get around that is to listen at a very loud volume to cover the noise. Midrange and treble noise also intrudes, so it was an ear-opening experience to hear how much different a given set of noise-canceling or noise-isolating set of headphones sounded on the NYC subway vs. They reduce but can't eliminate noise the very low-frequency rumble of a plane, train, bus, or car is always there, covering a lot of your music. That's true even with noise-canceling or isolating headphones. So headphones' biggest advantage is taking the variables of room acoustics completely out of the picture, and that's great, but unless you listen to headphones in very quiet places, environmental noise will mask some of your headphones' sound.
But room acoustics and reflections always diminish the accuracy of speakers' stereo imaging.
Stereo over headphones never sounds as realistic as it does over speakers.
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