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Originally Posted by DGriff0400 

You know your in an audiophile forum when the thread can never stick to its original intent lol

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Originally Posted by kazaakas 

When you're not willing to eat your crisps/cookies/snacks in front of the computer simply because you don't want to disturb your listening session with your own munching sounds or pause your music for a few seconds, even though you've been listening to it all day :)

Originally Posted by Argyris 

 

"Mid-fi" is a term invented by those wealthy enough (or foolish enough, depending on the model) to buy super top tier headphones and who need to feel that this somehow puts them in a class above everybody else. It's a nonsense term, especially when things like the HD6x0/K70x/DT880, which were once unimpeachably hi-fi, have now been "demoted" a rung. Nobody with a straight face can tell you that any of the $1,000+ headphones are fully >$1,000 better than the best models in the so-called mid-fi range, and most people are very honest about that and admit that they're not. Not saying it's not worth it to eke out that last bit of performance or to buy something well made and stylish, but audio is always a slippery slope. The distance between "mid-fi" and hi-fi is far smaller than the distance between lo-fi and "mid-fi."

 

The way most people seem to use the term these days it's more to delineate price range than quality, but you'll get the occasional snobiophile (as Doc likes to put it  ) who will say that mid-fi is crap. Haven't actually seen one of those in a while, though, so maybe that attitude is waning.

 

EDIT: Clarity

Originally Posted by PanamaHat 

When while on vacation what you miss the most from home is your desktop rig 

Originally Posted by Argyris 

My ideal sound is between all extremes. Given the choice between neutrality and just about any other aspect of the sonic presentation I'll take neutrality every time. Probably because I have eclectic taste, so straying too far in one sonic direction starts messing up the reproduction of one genre or another. Too much bass (especially uncontrolled) messes up classical; too much treble makes a lot of mainstream stuff painful to listen to, and weird midrange coloration is just bad all around.

Originally Posted by Malevolent 

When you're about to drop 2-3 k on your wedding rings, and it hurts your wallet so bad, but you're still trying to proportion a bit of cash for more headphones.

 

True story. 

Originally Posted by Argyris 

I've always liked the idea of really simple wedding rings. Like, just a matching pair of gold rings without any diamonds or any of that crap on them. The whole point is that it's symbolic and that the true value of the marriage is the love each person has for each other, which is priceless. Why does it have to be symbolized with an expensive and largely useless piece of jewelry? Why should anything material compete with the value of the union itself?

In other news, I'm single. Can't imagine why...

Originally Posted by Argyris 

I've always liked the idea of really simple wedding rings. Like, just a matching pair of gold rings without any diamonds or any of that crap on them. The whole point is that it's symbolic and that the true value of the marriage is the love each person has for each other, which is priceless. Why does it have to be symbolized with an expensive and largely useless piece of jewelry? Why should anything material compete with the value of the union itself?

 

In other news, I'm single. Can't imagine why...