Getting Bloggish

[Tyll Hertsens]

Hi Y'all.

Website writing is winding down finally, and we're into refining and polishing mode. So, over the past week I've started to blog in earnest, and I'd like to invite you all over to peruse and comment.

Right Between Your Ears

I think you'll get a kick out of my latest post on a very cool little audio acoustics tester and building a cheap headphone measurement capability.

There are only two types of articles that I'm certain will be appearing regularly for the first year or so:

• In depth comparative headphone reviews. This will be a review of the best cans of a certain type and price point. The current post is about $100 sealed headphones.
• In depth reviews of HeadRoom products; possibly called "The Anatomy of an AirHead" or Micro Amp, or Ultra Desktop. Basically, this is a series of in-depth reviews of our products.

This thread is an opportunity for you to suggest or criticize posts in the semi-privacy of this forum area. But I'd love for you to comment in the blog as you feel moved to do so.

So, here's your chance to speak up and help me refine the posting that will show up Right Between Your Ears.

I'm listening.




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[violeta88]

I think you're on the right track with the headphone comparison reviews. A lot of people on the forums have lots of questions about how does headphone X compare to headphone Y, etc. I linked to your blog when someone had a question recently about how the HD448 compares to the D1001, as you expressed my thoughts exactly (in a better way too) on how the two compare to each other in your first comparison post. Also the technical oriented customers (like myself) will greatly appreciate the "Anatomy of..." articles, since I for one, never buy any component without having an idea of what's inside it. Anyway, good luck with the blog, and your honesty is greatly appreciated, as is that of all of the people at HeadRoom. Have fun!!!

-Eric

[Born2bwire]

Originally Posted by Tyll Hertsens

Getting Bloggish

There are medicines that you can get to help you with that.

[Tyll Hertsens]

Originally Posted by Born2bwire

There are medicines that you can get to help you with that.

I think it's terminal, dood.




I wanted to mention I just posted on Noise cancelling cans. We did a lot of stuff internally to make this review happen including some upgrades in the formality of our internal review process, it was a very interesting undertaking.

I think the thing everyone walked away with was the feeling that they had a significantly stronger grasp on the relative merits of the various products performance after comprehensive and comparative formal subjecive evaluation.

In other words: it helps a LOT to directly compare headphones. Listening to one headphone by itself and then attempting to describe how it compares with another headphone you've heard in the past is almost impossible ... or maybe I should say very unreliable.

Anyway, the new post is here. Enjoy!

[Eagle_Driver]

Originally Posted by Tyll Hertsens

I wanted to mention I just posted on Noise cancelling cans. We did a lot of stuff internally to make this review happen including some upgrades in the formality of our internal review process, it was a very interesting undertaking.

I think the thing everyone walked away with was the feeling that they had a significantly stronger grasp on the relative merits of the various products performance after comprehensive and comparative formal subjecive evaluation.

In other words: it helps a LOT to directly compare headphones. Listening to one headphone by itself and then attempting to describe how it compares with another headphone you've heard in the past is almost impossible ... or maybe I should say very unreliable.

Anyway, the new post is here. Enjoy!

That comparison review is of the active noise cancelling headphones which retail for well over $200. Of those, I was somewhat surprised that you ranked a model from Bose (the Quiet Comfort 15) to be among the top overall performers in their class. (Granted, not even the best active noise cancellation headphones deliver any better sound quality than conventional closed headphones selling for half the price as these noise cancellers when they're run through a dedicated headphone amp. But they can be useful for specific purposes. In this class of headphones, usability is more important. After all, what good is an ANC headphone which offers only marginal noise-cancelling performance and sounds nearly as bad as a mediocre-sounding pair of cheap on-ear headphones?)

In other words, all things are relative here.