Posts by machoboy

For diverse genres and good "seperation" (really, no headphone has good separation, but I know what you mean), the Shure 440s are probably your safest bet.

I don't think it's so much that audiophiles "hate" rap/hip hop (and punk, and grindcore, etc.) so much as that they listen to music for reasons that don't mesh with those genres.   Those genres tend to be heavily bound to...

Subtracting the obvious Beats etc junk, I think Beyerdynamic's house sound annoys me the most because they make some very nice headphones that have everything going for them except a mysteriously absent mid range. I love their build...

The graphs are flawed - but they usually vary less than human opinions.   Look up any headphone on head-fi and read 20 threads about it and you will come out knowing it is:   "A bass-shy anemic basshead can with...

Quote: This.     Oh. Well if it was posted in a forum...

Hearing damage is caused by sound pressure levels. We say "hurts our ears" when we hear a sound frequency we don't like and might even get a headache from straining our hearing around it, but I seriously doubt any specific headphone is...

Quote: wearing a fake makes you fake lol   I can see that scene too, when his friends come to school and decide to test the authenticity of everyone's as-seen-on-TV gangster rapper headphones and his are deemed...

Quote: Originally Posted by niten  Passive aggressive much? I don't think Christmas is the time to pull something like that. Though I still find it incredibly hard to tell you that you should go buy beats for your...

Quote: Originally Posted by Han Bao Quan  The KNS as recommended by Mal is a nice choice. Although, what I've seen so far from the recording studios I've been to is the Sony V6 and its brother M7506. I owned both of...

http://recording.de/Magazin/Testberichte/2621/Vergleichstest__Studiokopfh%C3%B6rer_abgeh%C3%B6rt.html#article   In so many words: SRH840 scores the highest overall but he likes the HD 380 the most because they were not...