Non-audiophile reactions to high-end headphones - Page 360  

i used to be a casual listener like you, until i took a sennheiser to my head.
*bad dam tuss*

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Originally Posted by IGarrettS 

I let my friends try out my AKG K3003i and they nearly **** a brick, then one of them looked them up to buy a pair and now I'm ridiculed constantly for having a $1,500 pair of earbuds as I continue to buy more and more headphones. Afterwards I let them have another go but with FLAC files through my Fiio E17 Alpen and they loved that. No one ever realizes what they are missing until they trade up for a nicer rig.

I would **** a brick too, but I've just totaled up my overall spend on audio gear and it's rather a lot, especially if I convert to $$$. Man that £1800 sounds good though. I think I'll refrain from telling anyone how much my stuff costs.

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Originally Posted by IGarrettS 

Solid idea and my total is to ridiculous to say. I'm kinda ashamed... Although I have restrained myself to spending only 7% of my total savings so I don't go bankrupt .

I'm thinking of getting a pair of customs next spring if my exams go well. Almost makes me wonder if I should try and fail them.

This was my experience with the introduction to the world of audiophilia...

Never before had I ever really looked or researched audio equipment. For me, the standard for hearing things was always just whatever I was hearing through traditional, low end electronics. Sure I had attended concerts and loud stages before but it wasnt ever anything quite like the first time I put on some high end cans, high end file quality, and power to dish it out. In fact, I didn't even know those things played a factor at all. To me, sound was just sound...

Then came my interest in music...perhaps it was happenstance, maybe even a bit of luck...but the timing was most definitely right. Been a long time fan of trance, and electronica...and sadly I never really knew just how much more visceral the experience could get with a simply adjustment to one's equipment...I dont want to bring drugs into the discussion to violate rules or anything, so Ill just say theres a certain one out there that seems to (in my experience) enhance the audio. In retrospect its almost like the combination of the two act as some imprint on the brain, which would make sense seeing how tones and frequencies can trigger reactions...but anyways i digress...

I happened to do a little bit of research, keep in mind I was (and STILL AM) a noob  with audio products, but I ended up going with the Sennheisers, found a decent starter set of cans and picked up the HD558's at a reasonable price (sale was like 130 dollars)...took em home I remember how excited I was, but hesitant to expect anything great...I mean, how could sound be better than sound right? I was sooo wrong, and it was awesome to be in this case. I popped them open set up my rig, and got my music rollin'...and I was blown away. It was a memorable experience, for a variety of reasons, but simply the audio the noise...it just penetrated my soul...its hard to explain really...but god damn.

I remember feeling like, "this is what Ive been missing?!" it seemed to open up noises I'd never heard before, sounds and beats, rythym it all sort of flowed through me with the sennys. And it was from that day one, nothing ever really sounded the same. Sort of cliche, whatever...but it was truly like awakening in a world of color after years of black and white...just strange and euphoric.

Flash forwards to the present, and I now cringe everytime I have to listen to things through inferior audio products. It makes me laugh when I hear my friends talkin about their turtle beaches, their dre beats, their pieces of ****...hehehe...Thats my story I guess.

TL:DR

I'm the same actually.

well i started with sennheiser cx200

then upgraded (???) to some bose in ears

heard some Grado's as i was looking up brands like sennheiser and i must admit.. bose.. <.< on Tottenham court road.

got myself hooked... bought some... and then bought some more... and now here i am

I'm also considerably poorer

Happier

But poorer.

i used to listen to sonic gear headphones (they were so cheap, like $10 and up till maybe $50) like this.... ah darn i can't find the picture, its too old and thus out of stock i guess.

anyway some of the products they made there

HS2000
and

HP800

do they look familiar to you....?

maybe cause they copied this:

Sennheiser HD435
and this

Poineer HDJ 1000

I find particularly curious that those HP800 copy design elements from Audio Technica, Ultrasone and Pioneer

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Originally Posted by Roller 

I find particularly curious that those HP800 copy design elements from Audio Technica, Ultrasone and Pioneer

well technically if only one part is copied its not so bad, but only if its a significant copy where someone immediately recognizes it as the object it copied than its a red flag,
which part is taken from ultrasone and audiotechnica btw? headband? hindge? pading?

@ hifimanrookie
this is a malaysian brand, well malaysia is famous for ripoffs (or at least selling them) 
for one there is a camera bag company called Steinzeiser see how close it sounds to Sennheiser?