Non-audiophile reactions to high-end headphones - Page 364  

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Originally Posted by hifimanrookie 


Hahaha... And u still consider mr xxx as ur friend

Bad choice.. My friend loves Grado's so its all good.

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Originally Posted by hifimanrookie 

His brother has 225i's, he wants my sr80i's since I'm getting new headphones. But, I have to mod my Grado's!

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Originally Posted by wolfetan44 

His brother has 225i's, he wants my sr80i's since I'm getting new headphones. But, I have to mod my Grado's!

Two of my buddies love Grados too. One of my other close friends has a pair of Denons.

I mean I sold headphones to two out of the three, but still, proud of them. 

No one I know really well owns Beats actually.

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Originally Posted by HeroicPenguin 

 

Two of my buddies love Grados too. One of my other close friends has a pair of Denons.

 

I mean I sold headphones to two out of the three, but still, proud of them. 

 

No one I know really well owns Beats actually.

People walk around my school with Beats on the necks with no cables in them

I honestly think non-audiophiles don't care about your expensive headphone systems because it takes a long time to adjust your brain (and ears) to a particular sound; spend a week listening to Beats by Dre and then go to your Audeze LCD-2 or Sennheiser HD800 or HiFiMan HE-6 and you will think the Beats are better... I'm serious, you will! Then spend a week listening to nothing but those latter headphones and when you try out your Beats again you will think "how in the hell did I ever actually think these crappy things were better".

People often talk about headphone "burn-in" and I actually believe it is NOT a myth (there's actually scientific proof); however, brain burn-in plays a far more significant role in how we experience sound. Hearing is a sense like any other -- walk into a stinky room and soon you will no longer smell anything, but it isn't because the smell is gone. Once you get used to peaks in a frequency spectrum, those peaks lower to be more in line with the trophs... this makes sound more natural.

Unfortunately, your friends don't hear what the fuss is about; they just think you wasted $1000

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Originally Posted by wolfetan44 

People walk around my school with Beats on the necks with no cables in them

While playing music off the speaker of their iphone...

Showed my friend my px100-ii streaming through the e17 and his jaw dropped. He said it sounded better than the system in his dads Benz, haha :P

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Originally Posted by olsenn 

 

People often talk about headphone "burn-in" and I actually believe it is NOT a myth (there's actually scientific proof); however, brain burn-in plays a far more significant role in how we experience sound. Hearing is a sense like any other -- walk into a stinky room and soon you will no longer smell anything, but it isn't because the smell is gone. Once you get used to peaks in a frequency spectrum, those peaks lower to be more in line with the trophs... this makes sound more natural.

 

Unfortunately, your friends don't hear what the fuss is about; they just think you wasted $1000

Great post +1.

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Originally Posted by Hooster 

 

Great post +1.

I think that's one of the best I've seen from a non-number ranked member.

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Originally Posted by Armaegis 

While playing music off the speaker of their iphone...

Its so annoying..

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Originally Posted by hifimanrookie 


+1 i totally agree on the burn brain in thingie..if u check some of my posts through headfi u will read that i think a listening experience is a sum up of the following ingredients
Ur headphone and rest of ur rig
Ur emotional state
Ur physical state
And ur thoughts about HOW good the headphone will sound (expectations)
And even where u are sometimes
But i know a person or two in my personal life who can really be objective about hearing pure differences in 2 phones..without being influenced by expectations and what they read about it..
Am sure here on headfi there are others..
me? No..i am not an objective listener at all..
Sometimes i have a feeling my rig sounds not on his best..but yesterday i didnt sleep at all while listening to some high quality queen recordings..those guys were magicians! OMG As if i was totally emerged into beautiful music..a song even gave me goosebumps..but i think because my day went perfect and i was all relaxed before listening..that i could be in the flow to enjoy all what my sweet rig could give me..and see..i didnt sleep all night..
Just wanted to say..buying higher end phones do give u better listening experience..no doubt about it..thats why i have the rig that i have now ..but it alse depends on the other ingredients of the mix..but hey..its how i feel it..so u can have a different opinion..

I have said many times in many threads that we all hear diffrently, we all have different sound system and musical tastes. so when someone says a pair of headphone sounds too bright, what it really means to me is, according to this person, and  based on all the factors stated before, the same headphones might sound just right on a sound system with a roled off treble.

I find you're point of view very interesting, because you are taking this even further by factoring in our mental and physical state, i tend to agree that both these things can play a significant role in our appreciation of music on our sound systems, or any sound system for that matter, definately food for toughts