I have a few myths that i recall off, but I preffer to keep them for myself, the most remarkable one is while people say that the heapdhones offer more value for the sound than speakers, I have literally spent almost three times more in heapdhones, so go an figure...and my speakers, nothing fancy a pair of axioms, still hold the candle pretty tight in front of them...

Some components burn in, as switches, jacks, cables, power cords, etc...Even components that need time to stablize their operation as filters and tubes, are sometimes a way too into the voodoo, IMO 200 hours for a filter is killer, there is no filter that need 200 hours for stabilization, unless defective...and less to fully charge, as sometimes I read...others include some cables manufacturers which cables we have analized, tubes sound better than SS, analog sounds better than digital, power cords, power conditioning...etc...Some of those myths as usual for some of us, are true and for others are only that, myths...

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Night and day differences.
Headphones are totally different.
Recording/mastering quality counts.
Amps are far less different unless it's a mismatch or a weird tube amp.
Sources? Subtle.
Decent cables? Even more subtle.
IMO.
Most probably I'm just tone-deaf .......

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He is referring to the copy protection on certain audio CD's that can be defeated if you outline the edge of the CD with a sharpie (the last track is a dummy track that contains no data and most CD-ROM drives get confused and end up not being able to rip the CD; outlining the CD with sharpie makes this track unreadable and then the CD-ROM drive thinks its just a normal audio CD again.).

However this is very old news and I am pretty sure that software can now take care of this protection (*cough* alcohol 120% *cough*) instead of manually outlining the CD with a sharpie.

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Are you suggesting that it doesn't???

1. That you will ever really be happy with the sound you hear
2. That you will stop spending money on this "hobby"
3. That you do not believe the first two statements.

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Yeah, your right, that one definitely seems off. Mastering is one of the biggest influences in sound.

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Definitely, starting with the microphones, and then continuing through the engineer's equipment and knowledge of sound. There are lots of opportunities on the front end to mess up a recording.

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And then of course there's also the myth #2: That it's okay to give advice on how something sounds based on something you read on Head-Fi.

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No, he's probably refering to this ...

http://www.snopes.com/music/media/marker.htm

Apparently the green marker catches stray laser light that could distort the sound inside the cd player. He was joking

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How did you ever get the 'blue" marker off the CDs ???

nOOb question, I know , sorry

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I am about to fight you.

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That anything you read on an internet forum is worth fighting over

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headphones are similar they have subtle differences for the most part. these differences are not night and day they need to be used for a good amount of time to really notice them.

good recordings will always sound better

amps have different characteristics that either work with the headphone or they don't.

source is key always most important IMO. If you amplify crap you will always get crap.

cables just get decent ones. I don't see the point of most of them such as power cables considering the plug your using has the same cables as before changing a simple power cable isn't going to help unless you re-wire your plug with this "higher quality" power cables. not to mention these cables are the size of your arm that's really needed

... the first myth at Head-Fi IS Head-Fi; in other words, that this is a place to go for useful audio advice.

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Ouch!