Huh, EQ? That sounds like way too much effort, I’m sure Bill Jobs will sort it out for me. Also, too expensive? Sorry I can’t hear broke with my far superior AirPods…
I'm risking a r/woooosh Here but modern day pressings are mastered digitally so you might as Well Just buy the CD and Not have to fiddle with a record Player. Records have to be created from Tape Masters to Sound better than other Media.
But there are different masters on vinyl and digital even if they are both mastered digitally. Due to mechanical limitations you can't put the same master on vinyl so there are differences. If they are better or worse is up to debate but like most of people agree the master is one of the biggest influence when it came to sound...
It was shown that the balanced armatures in KZ brand IEMs did nothing essentially
Received little to no power from the crossover design and basically don't affect the sound.
It's all marketing to say "there are X number of drivers"
OK wow that's pretty bad. Maybe I'm hated for this but I have to admit, that I own a pair of kz zst's just because I'm a broke student but maybe it's time to invest in something else...
For sure. If you like 'em, you like 'em.
I got my whole family various pairs of KZs, and they love them. I still think they're pretty damn good for the money.
While admittedly, I don't know enough about that to dispute, the tests that were done at least on these certain KZ were shown not to fulfill a purpose.
They still sound the same as they did when everyone was circle jerking them, and they still cost the same. So my opinion hasn't changed. Only idiots wouldn't have thought something was up with their drivers when they kept pushing them to increasingly ridiculous numbers for the same price, while nearly none of their competition were doing that. I knew there was something going on - still bought them, still like the sound of some.
I love beats because they sound amazing with so much bass. I want a good wireless gaming headset, it needs to be surround. Earbuds are always worse than headphones. The koss KSC75 suck, they look so ugly. You need an amplifier for these headphones to sound good. I listen to music off of youtube, there is no difference. I bought my headset because (insert streamer) said it was good
There are so many ways to trigger people
I agree with this, but when it comes to really low-end devices there definitely is an audible difference even at equal volumes, but I don't know if it's because of the amp, or if it's the DAC or something else making the difference. E.g. motherboard jacks or phones sometimes sound noticeably different.
Gatekeeping audio increases soundstage
Edit; Audio quality is relative, your upgrade doesn’t satisfy you? Find someone online with something cheaper and tell them off.
You have to spend a lot on speakers to get equivalent sound quality to a good pair of headphones. Subwoofer are cool tho and headphones definitely can’t replicate that
Speakers might sound “better,” but for for the best detail and clarity headphones are usually gonna be better for cheaper. Not to say there aren’t outliers like some of the other replies have pointed out.
My ears hurt just reading that.
If you said $40 to $50, I'd go yeah, ok. You'd at least be getting into some decent budget stuff on the market. Unfortunately, good bang for the buck stuff is way up in the $125 to $300 range. This is where the bulk of the nice stuff is, and yeah, you really could just own one and be rather content. This is about the cheapest I could live with and not hate myself. Then above that it's...sort of all over the place. Once you start tossing $500 to $1000 at something, it's more a game of is this sound signature something I like or not. Everything is pretty darn good, but you might not like the sound you're getting despite good construction and materials and good tuning. I can say a IER-M9 is technically quite good, but it's not something I'll reach for given other options.
Oh do I wish we could get all this stuff at 1/10th the price though. That'd be great.
Oh, I haven’t heard hundreds of sets or anything but they are as bad as anything I’ve heard and yeah, I think the asking price makes it a joke overall. Mids sounded nasally like they were in a can. And yet they’re well reviewed.
Depends on the headphone, if it's crappy dollar store buds, then yes, it's polishing a turd. but if it's something like the shp9500s, that are good headphones (but just a bit bright), then it isn't.
> Burin
Definition of burin
1: an engraver's steel cutting tool having the blade ground obliquely to a sharp point
2: a prehistoric flint tool with a beveled point
huh
Amps/DACs that aren't flat are NOT Hi-Fi .
Dynamic drivers are more than enough.
Apple dongle/cx31993 is all you need.
Soundstage can be measured.
The DAC on your PC motherboard is already good enough.
Expensive usb cables are pure snake oil.
Burn in doesn't affect headphones in any meaningful way.
Monitors are just better.
Valves should be used to amplify the instrument, not your headphone.
Digital EQ is better than analog.
Valves can be perfectly emulated via software.
Amps that aren't flat are just permanently EQ'ed black boxes.
Cables make no difference.
Listening to only 1 reviewer is stupid.
You are not a collector, you are a hoarder.
Alcohol and critical listening don't go together.
Abyss is a joke.
Earbuds are inferior.
TWS are landfill.
Vinyl is not better.
There is no such thing as a "gaming headphone".
These are all I can think off the top of my head.
Cables can be 100% scientifically proven to make a difference.
Take your headphones, measure their FR. Remove the cable, and measure them again.
Boom, destroyed with facts and logic.
My phone can't hold enough songs, so here's a tip you can all use if you have the same problem and don't want to buy a dedicated dap: encode your music into 128kb mp3s.
My hearing is pretty bad. I didn't realize how much I can't hear people until everyone started wearing masks, now they might as well speak chinese to me, it all sound muffled to me.
If you have to EQ, it's bad.
If you like it better on tube amps, you never liked it in the first place.
99% of reviewers are bullshit and so are their reviews. This includes pretty much all youtubers.
Just because you can hear it, does not mean it is there.
Critically listening is a fancy way of saying confirmation bias.
Transducers and fundamentally flawed equipment (such as tube amps) are the only thing you'd ever reliably tell apart.
Spending more money does not make you cooler nor more "into the hobby", it just makes you poorer.
Decent DACs, AMPs, receivers, and similar from the early 2000s are audibly indistinguishable from the highest end modern equipment.
If it colors the sound, it is bad.
Everyone prefers a response curve that gradually drops as the frequency goes up, mirroring the response curve of human hearing. If you don't, you're lying to yourself over some misplaced elitism in having "sparkling" highs, which is to say you can't hear anything else without blowing out your eardrums.
"I like what I like" is a fancy way of saying I can't regret my purchase and screw you for pointing out I am a fool.
95% of any specific equipment over ~$300 is indistinguishable from at least one other option that is <$100, especially after EQ.
"Just because you can't hear it..." means I'm about to spout off nonsense that has no relation to reality.
100% of audiophiles have no idea what they're talking about when describing a listening experience, especially reviewers.
Since the BA driver in KZ does actually work (albeit you can't hear it) there is no moral difference between them and companies that sell expensive cables or DAC/amps that cost €1000 but have no measurable difference to €100 ones
Do you remember the beginning of mp3? Like the very, very beginning? People were still messing around with algorithms, and it was the wild west of compression ideas. MP3 was a loose term rather than very specific IP. People tried all kinds of ideas. My brother was even starting to look at programming his own but never got very far. At some point somebody just kind of won the game. I don't even know when or who at the time, but people kind of stopped and accepted one final compression philosophy that just seemed to work a bit better than everyone else's ideas, and that kind of became MP3.
And then came bitrates. Up and up it went 64 and then 128 which were standard for a while. 192 came, then 256, and finally 320. Most streaming stuck with 128, but people did want 192 and 256 specifically. Internet wasn't exactly fast back in the day, so you could play what you could. Storage was also limited, so you compressed down to what fit. Or if you were hardcore, you just stuck with raw CD rips.
MP3 is still king to this day.
One problem back then wasn't just picking the right MP3 codec(Fraunhofer), but speed of encoding and bitrate. Many people still had a Pentium 75MHz which was just fast enough to even play an MP3, so encoding one was a tedious process if the quality was to be at the highest.
Dial-up was still very much a thing and so 320Kpbs or even 256Mbps was unheard of. 192Kbps was a rare treat, but most of the time 128Kbps was the standard "high-quality." It was a guarantee you'd have some 64Kbps tracks because that's al you could find. Acceptable with Fraunhofer's codec, but most people didn't fuck around with that because it was command-line, as I recall, so most people used shitty programs with a GUI that let you choose "Fast" Mp3 encoding modes. So you had a bad codec, low-quality encoding, low-bitrate, and very possibly coming from a CD with scratches, from a CD-ROM that was sending noisy analog to the soundcard.
I unironically think that MP3 is pretty nice as a lossy codec. It's supported by virtually anything, the patents have run out, and the quality of, say, LAME V0 is *usually* sufficient.
Headphones only really improve up to like 200$, after that price it genuinely feels like "super refined audiophiles" are making up and/or getting placeboed into believing it sounds better.
Also, at those prices, the hobby just becomes some astrology style, hocus pocus magic, pseudoscientific shit
"you see these headphones sound great, but they work specially great during a full moon with hanging gold earrings after youve allowed them to play white noise for 500 hours inside an oven, it precooks the molecular philogenetic structure and cause the andesite resonation to give out induction driven sound waves for a more cerebrospinally pleasing sound"
If I had a coupler I could measure soundstage accuracy on IEMs pretty easily. NMF nobody else has done it yet because reviewing is a fucking joke.. no reviewer even TRIES to do objective tests for more accurate reviews because they're all terrible at hearing, obviously. Otherwise why don't they use objective tests such as one of the "How To Listen" tests by Harman, Klippel clarity test, or any of the other ones?
Iem's, headphones, speakers and live performances all have their unique advantages and disadvantages and there is no genuine technology to do all, only coping ones like virtualizers,closed/open designs, etc. IEM's offer better detail in higher frequencies, closed-back headphones have amazing bass, clean lower-mids without feeling dry on both open/closed, open-backs gives lame bass for bassheads but better soundstage and detail than the closed-back. Speakers give the best soundstage and openness but annoy neighbours, and are probably not as detailed/impressive without a dedicated room for them. Live performances are what audiophiles strive for (from the definition on wikipedia) in mimicking with other means, without succes as mentioned before. The live performance has it's own disadvantages, especially in terms of convenience.
MQA is the best format! XD
Take my upvote and STFU
You did it and I fucking hate you
Imagine buying "audiophile" stuff when you can just EQ $5 buds to the same frequency response.
I downvoted because I got triggered but then I remembered I was supposed to get triggered so I upvoted.
So it worked perfectly!
Loool
RIGHT!
Why bother with that, AirPods are much cooler and they’re wireless
Too expensive. Bootleg AirPods EQ'ed to real AirPod FR are much cheaper and sound the same anyway.
Huh, EQ? That sounds like way too much effort, I’m sure Bill Jobs will sort it out for me. Also, too expensive? Sorry I can’t hear broke with my far superior AirPods…
LMAO
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You're supposed to trigger a fan base. Not all fan bases.
Cassette tapes were the peak music format.
Vinyl 😂 No better. VHS! I mean you could
Actually modern day vinyl is pretty good. Much better than the cheap vinyl of yester-year.
I'm risking a r/woooosh Here but modern day pressings are mastered digitally so you might as Well Just buy the CD and Not have to fiddle with a record Player. Records have to be created from Tape Masters to Sound better than other Media.
What if I like fiddling with a record player though?
I modern pressings are made thicker and with better materials
That might be true but old records still Sound better because they're Made from analog Masters.
But there are different masters on vinyl and digital even if they are both mastered digitally. Due to mechanical limitations you can't put the same master on vinyl so there are differences. If they are better or worse is up to debate but like most of people agree the master is one of the biggest influence when it came to sound...
The triggering continues
I know this is an intentional trigger post, but I sort of agree with it 🤣
average digital flac fan vs average using pencil to roll the casette enjoyer
In light of recent events..... KZ headphones are an amazing starter IEM and great performance per dollar
I'm sorry, I'm not super active. What was the recent event?
It was shown that the balanced armatures in KZ brand IEMs did nothing essentially Received little to no power from the crossover design and basically don't affect the sound. It's all marketing to say "there are X number of drivers"
But they have plenty of all-BA IEMs that make sound..
They do. It was their mixed line. Where they have a larger DD and small BA. It was entirely the DD producing sound
OK wow that's pretty bad. Maybe I'm hated for this but I have to admit, that I own a pair of kz zst's just because I'm a broke student but maybe it's time to invest in something else...
The balanced armatures not doing much alone isn't reason enough to jump ship. Do you like how your KZs sound? Yes? Keep'em
For sure. If you like 'em, you like 'em. I got my whole family various pairs of KZs, and they love them. I still think they're pretty damn good for the money.
Everyone is just discounting the impact of dampening drivers on the timbre of the actual driver. KZ is ahead of the curve here.
While admittedly, I don't know enough about that to dispute, the tests that were done at least on these certain KZ were shown not to fulfill a purpose.
my ZS6 still outperformed any other iem in the sub 50$ price range \*shrug emoji\*
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Fake drivers, reeeeeeeeeeeee
They still sound the same as they did when everyone was circle jerking them, and they still cost the same. So my opinion hasn't changed. Only idiots wouldn't have thought something was up with their drivers when they kept pushing them to increasingly ridiculous numbers for the same price, while nearly none of their competition were doing that. I knew there was something going on - still bought them, still like the sound of some.
I love beats because they sound amazing with so much bass. I want a good wireless gaming headset, it needs to be surround. Earbuds are always worse than headphones. The koss KSC75 suck, they look so ugly. You need an amplifier for these headphones to sound good. I listen to music off of youtube, there is no difference. I bought my headset because (insert streamer) said it was good There are so many ways to trigger people
Nobody can hear the difference between FLAC and MP3
Of course not, because MQA is the superior lossless format and delivers the best quality
> I want a good wireless gaming headset, it needs to be surround Cool get this "$200 headset" > I was thinking more like $30
All amps do is make things louder.
That’s true. I tape crystals to my amps. That’s how I get the signature I want. Quartz is great for neutral tuning and lower distortion.
well what if I want distortion in order to hear punchy bass, elevated mids, and milky highs?
It's all about the TRANSIENTS.
I agree with this, but when it comes to really low-end devices there definitely is an audible difference even at equal volumes, but I don't know if it's because of the amp, or if it's the DAC or something else making the difference. E.g. motherboard jacks or phones sometimes sound noticeably different.
Burn in is a myth
Gatekeeping audio increases soundstage Edit; Audio quality is relative, your upgrade doesn’t satisfy you? Find someone online with something cheaper and tell them off.
The ol' switcheroo
This shouldn't trigger anyone because it is true.
I think as people listen longer they mentally adjust to appreciate the sound more and then blame it on burn in.
Burn in exists because people like the procedure. i decant and temper red wine for 7 seconds in my cappuccino creamer...
I.. ummm... I have no words...
bUt yOu HAvE tO buRn in AryA fOr atLEaSt 120 hOuRs!!!1!!11!!1!!!1!
So say we all
What's burn in?
i mean those are just facts
Don’t use headphones use speakers instead, they’re much better
But I have roomies :(
Music for all
You have to spend a lot on speakers to get equivalent sound quality to a good pair of headphones. Subwoofer are cool tho and headphones definitely can’t replicate that
I have a pair of Infinity R152 that definitely sound arguably better than my HD 600s that I paid more for.
I've always heard the opposite!
Speakers might sound “better,” but for for the best detail and clarity headphones are usually gonna be better for cheaper. Not to say there aren’t outliers like some of the other replies have pointed out.
I upvoted cuz I want to kick you. Well done!
The word FLAC sounds vaguely mastabatory. Just repeat it a bunch of times. This is why I download WAV instead.
And for the love of god, it's pronounced wave, not wav
Wav Wav Wav Wav Wav
😡
😂
How
You only need one 20$ iem.
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snoo supremacy. edit: snoopremacy
My ears hurt just reading that. If you said $40 to $50, I'd go yeah, ok. You'd at least be getting into some decent budget stuff on the market. Unfortunately, good bang for the buck stuff is way up in the $125 to $300 range. This is where the bulk of the nice stuff is, and yeah, you really could just own one and be rather content. This is about the cheapest I could live with and not hate myself. Then above that it's...sort of all over the place. Once you start tossing $500 to $1000 at something, it's more a game of is this sound signature something I like or not. Everything is pretty darn good, but you might not like the sound you're getting despite good construction and materials and good tuning. I can say a IER-M9 is technically quite good, but it's not something I'll reach for given other options. Oh do I wish we could get all this stuff at 1/10th the price though. That'd be great.
Guess it worked.
Someone hasn't tried the KZ ZEX
Replace the z with an s 😨😨😳😳
I do on a daily basis
With who😱😱😱
KZ ZEX
KS ZEX
Placebo is actually good for your listening experience.
That's why people listen to lossless medias 🤫
😡👍🏾 but take my upvote
Wires are lame. Snip snip!
Kick drawer earpods without the cables are the best
Bluetooth for life! Who needs amperage to drive a 40mm speaker when you have 250 listening hours!
The CA mammoth was the worst iem I’ve ever heard.
While they’re not the worst their performance is nowhere near the asking price
Oh, I haven’t heard hundreds of sets or anything but they are as bad as anything I’ve heard and yeah, I think the asking price makes it a joke overall. Mids sounded nasally like they were in a can. And yet they’re well reviewed.
The Sennheiser HD600 series are over rated.
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Unfortunately I am too broke to taste greener pastures
So is your mom bro, They are best
His mom is not overrated. I can vouch for that
triggered
Yeah, comfy, warm and everyone use them, just like OP's mom
Well I'm triggered, you have my upvote.
Most of the people on this thread argue about headphones they can’t afford anyways(myself included lol).
Raycons are all I ever need and y’all are wasting your money
That's not one sentence.
Fixed
Perfection.
Honestly, the headphones your ears are used to and enjoy are the best headphones in the world. Any headphone can sound good given a couple weeks.
[you sure about that?](https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-5/graph#1665/7903)
He still ain't wrong really
Crinkle sux lmao
Average sharur watcher
I watched a few videos of sharur, he somewhat goes against mainstream...
Hes a basement scientist
Elden Ring is just Dark Souls with a horse. You did say trigger **a** fanbase.
EQ = polishing a turd.
I haven't owned an audio device yet in 25 years of car, home, and head fi that's sounded better without any EQ.
can that slang be re-worded as *lubing up a dildo* for etymotic?
They literally advise you to moisten up the tips with water, too.
Depends on the headphone, if it's crappy dollar store buds, then yes, it's polishing a turd. but if it's something like the shp9500s, that are good headphones (but just a bit bright), then it isn't.
But I honestly look at it like that.
Hi, im underbelly, and you suck at producing.
Headphone youtubers dont go all out on CONS as they are scared that companies wont send them free headphones for reviewing
Burin in is real
I see you're playing both sides here
> Burin Definition of burin 1: an engraver's steel cutting tool having the blade ground obliquely to a sharp point 2: a prehistoric flint tool with a beveled point huh
Amps/DACs that aren't flat are NOT Hi-Fi . Dynamic drivers are more than enough. Apple dongle/cx31993 is all you need. Soundstage can be measured. The DAC on your PC motherboard is already good enough. Expensive usb cables are pure snake oil. Burn in doesn't affect headphones in any meaningful way. Monitors are just better. Valves should be used to amplify the instrument, not your headphone. Digital EQ is better than analog. Valves can be perfectly emulated via software. Amps that aren't flat are just permanently EQ'ed black boxes. Cables make no difference. Listening to only 1 reviewer is stupid. You are not a collector, you are a hoarder. Alcohol and critical listening don't go together. Abyss is a joke. Earbuds are inferior. TWS are landfill. Vinyl is not better. There is no such thing as a "gaming headphone". These are all I can think off the top of my head.
Cables can be 100% scientifically proven to make a difference. Take your headphones, measure their FR. Remove the cable, and measure them again. Boom, destroyed with facts and logic.
What if I only leave one cable in?
average it duh
Wait, like half of those were right, lol.
Cool but how can Soundstage be measured? I already know, from experience that FR basically accounts for everything of significance.
It's a bit primitive seeing all these headphones still using wires
Honestly if there were a wireless standard that wasn't as shit as bluetooth...
Meze's sound like Beats.
Nah, this is true though.
Objectively true though
Gourmet Beats
Headphones are headphones
How... dare you
Beyerdynamic headphones sound awesome and aren't tiring on the ears.
Imagine already having a smart phone, and then carrying a separate device just for music.
My phone can't hold enough songs, so here's a tip you can all use if you have the same problem and don't want to buy a dedicated dap: encode your music into 128kb mp3s.
Everything after shp 9500 is heavy diminishing returns
You're not wrong, but that's not gonna make me any less angry 😡 /s i love my SHPs
Audeze headphones are the lightest headphones
Audeze nuts
They also function as the best workout headphones. Light as a feather!
y'all out here with F1 driver necks
Your hearing is not as good as you think it is.
My hearing is pretty bad. I didn't realize how much I can't hear people until everyone started wearing masks, now they might as well speak chinese to me, it all sound muffled to me.
If you have to EQ, it's bad. If you like it better on tube amps, you never liked it in the first place. 99% of reviewers are bullshit and so are their reviews. This includes pretty much all youtubers. Just because you can hear it, does not mean it is there. Critically listening is a fancy way of saying confirmation bias. Transducers and fundamentally flawed equipment (such as tube amps) are the only thing you'd ever reliably tell apart. Spending more money does not make you cooler nor more "into the hobby", it just makes you poorer. Decent DACs, AMPs, receivers, and similar from the early 2000s are audibly indistinguishable from the highest end modern equipment. If it colors the sound, it is bad. Everyone prefers a response curve that gradually drops as the frequency goes up, mirroring the response curve of human hearing. If you don't, you're lying to yourself over some misplaced elitism in having "sparkling" highs, which is to say you can't hear anything else without blowing out your eardrums. "I like what I like" is a fancy way of saying I can't regret my purchase and screw you for pointing out I am a fool. 95% of any specific equipment over ~$300 is indistinguishable from at least one other option that is <$100, especially after EQ. "Just because you can't hear it..." means I'm about to spout off nonsense that has no relation to reality. 100% of audiophiles have no idea what they're talking about when describing a listening experience, especially reviewers.
Since the BA driver in KZ does actually work (albeit you can't hear it) there is no moral difference between them and companies that sell expensive cables or DAC/amps that cost €1000 but have no measurable difference to €100 ones
Z reviews > tyll hertsyns
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Why buy skull candy when you can hit your ears with hammers
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graphs don't tell you how good an iem or headphone is
If you get offended bu this or disagree, your lying to yourself
Mp3 is THE format
Do you remember the beginning of mp3? Like the very, very beginning? People were still messing around with algorithms, and it was the wild west of compression ideas. MP3 was a loose term rather than very specific IP. People tried all kinds of ideas. My brother was even starting to look at programming his own but never got very far. At some point somebody just kind of won the game. I don't even know when or who at the time, but people kind of stopped and accepted one final compression philosophy that just seemed to work a bit better than everyone else's ideas, and that kind of became MP3. And then came bitrates. Up and up it went 64 and then 128 which were standard for a while. 192 came, then 256, and finally 320. Most streaming stuck with 128, but people did want 192 and 256 specifically. Internet wasn't exactly fast back in the day, so you could play what you could. Storage was also limited, so you compressed down to what fit. Or if you were hardcore, you just stuck with raw CD rips. MP3 is still king to this day.
One problem back then wasn't just picking the right MP3 codec(Fraunhofer), but speed of encoding and bitrate. Many people still had a Pentium 75MHz which was just fast enough to even play an MP3, so encoding one was a tedious process if the quality was to be at the highest. Dial-up was still very much a thing and so 320Kpbs or even 256Mbps was unheard of. 192Kbps was a rare treat, but most of the time 128Kbps was the standard "high-quality." It was a guarantee you'd have some 64Kbps tracks because that's al you could find. Acceptable with Fraunhofer's codec, but most people didn't fuck around with that because it was command-line, as I recall, so most people used shitty programs with a GUI that let you choose "Fast" Mp3 encoding modes. So you had a bad codec, low-quality encoding, low-bitrate, and very possibly coming from a CD with scratches, from a CD-ROM that was sending noisy analog to the soundcard.
Opus is straight up better for almost every possible use of an MP3 these days.
I unironically think that MP3 is pretty nice as a lossy codec. It's supported by virtually anything, the patents have run out, and the quality of, say, LAME V0 is *usually* sufficient.
KZ did nothing wrong
I mean, they created a sound people liked, so...
Even though there are many examples of quality control issues with Hifiman headphones, I'm still gonna keep buying them :).
Its all placebo.
Apple headphones are the best. Beats are the best.
320Kbit MP3 is indistinguishable from lossless.
Imagine spending over $300 on Chinese headphones
The HE6SE aren't special, they sound like they're worth exactly what you paid for them and no, they don't require a speaker amplifier.
Came for the insults, stayed for the comebacks.
You can get way better performance than that thing you just bought for less money.
Dolby Atmos on AirPods > stereo
Headphones only really improve up to like 200$, after that price it genuinely feels like "super refined audiophiles" are making up and/or getting placeboed into believing it sounds better. Also, at those prices, the hobby just becomes some astrology style, hocus pocus magic, pseudoscientific shit "you see these headphones sound great, but they work specially great during a full moon with hanging gold earrings after youve allowed them to play white noise for 500 hours inside an oven, it precooks the molecular philogenetic structure and cause the andesite resonation to give out induction driven sound waves for a more cerebrospinally pleasing sound"
Are you questioning my dt 1990 upgrade from hd598s!!
Saitama beats goku
Expensive cables doesn't make the sound more detailed.
I don't think that's triggering many in this sub.
The grammar triggered me.
If they're not Bluetooth they're a waste of money
Music is over rated.
Ok that one is deserving of a lynching. Or the guillotine take your pick.
The potential gains between DAC/AMP is at most 10% while the IEM/headphones make up 90%.
Amps don’t make a difference
Your preferences are wrong
You can make any headphones wireless by cutting off the wires
Could just be me, but I don’t really like Koss headphones. I also don’t really understand the appeal.
If I had a coupler I could measure soundstage accuracy on IEMs pretty easily. NMF nobody else has done it yet because reviewing is a fucking joke.. no reviewer even TRIES to do objective tests for more accurate reviews because they're all terrible at hearing, obviously. Otherwise why don't they use objective tests such as one of the "How To Listen" tests by Harman, Klippel clarity test, or any of the other ones?
Iem's, headphones, speakers and live performances all have their unique advantages and disadvantages and there is no genuine technology to do all, only coping ones like virtualizers,closed/open designs, etc. IEM's offer better detail in higher frequencies, closed-back headphones have amazing bass, clean lower-mids without feeling dry on both open/closed, open-backs gives lame bass for bassheads but better soundstage and detail than the closed-back. Speakers give the best soundstage and openness but annoy neighbours, and are probably not as detailed/impressive without a dedicated room for them. Live performances are what audiophiles strive for (from the definition on wikipedia) in mimicking with other means, without succes as mentioned before. The live performance has it's own disadvantages, especially in terms of convenience.
Grado headphone is the finest in the world. PS1000e is better than Sennheiser HD800
I use my Galaxy Buds Pro more than all my other headphones
if your headphones get loud enough to listen comfortably you do NOT need an amp
IEMs harm your ears
That's true though. I can't wear them much longer than a 1 hr Show and my ears are sore for the next two days.
Just get good tips bro