thanks for posting these comparisons! Just listened to them (on sony mdr7506 headphones), and my pref in each shootout was the 480 w/bodies. in the actives vs bodies comparison, I found a more natural sounding sense of depth or air or space in the bodies version, which was preferable to my ears. And against the 460's, I found the high end of the 480's to be smoother, and the low end to be more extended, and the overall recording to be a little more 3-dimensional. But I would listen to any of these sources any day of the week, I was always Team AKG back when I was taping 20+ years ago.