1. I frequently listen to music in an anechoic chamber; e.g. headphones. Due to living in an apartment I share with little children, and a career as an academic in which I spend a good deal of my life in libraries. In fact, a big part of my choice to build a schoeps m/s rig was because of the ability to create dedicated headphone mixes. Also, most engineers use multiple playback rigs to judge how eq affects the sound.
2. There is a good reason that you don't see any LD hypers on the poll which is the impetus for this thread. Most tapers (and recording engineers) think that SD hypers work better for what we do.
3. Plenty of classical singers (male and female) are spot mic'ed with schoeps capsules in live and studio recordings. Can you guess why? Also The mk41 is universally acclaimed by those who record film dialog. Name your favorite movie, I bet Schoeps microphones were used. Can you guess why?
My point is this: it is all well and good for you to claim that you don't like way schoeps sound, Good for you! Don't buy them. Know that many, many people disagree (look at the poll results above!) Good for them! This is all subjective.
But to suggest that whereas *you* are using your superior ears to determine things, whereas all the rest of us (by implication with inferior hearing or discerning ability) are somehow seduced by a popularity contest to like Schoeps, well that is offensive to many folks on this board who have run all kinds of gear before settling on what they like best.