Disenchanted with head-fi (a rant) - Page 7  

Have you heard the Balancing Act yet?  Bad recordings sound bad on the SR007A and SR009.  Stuff I consider a bit bland suddenly sounded catchy on the BA.  The BA and a HD800 with balanced cables is the most interesting rig I've heard in awhile, and it made bad stuff sound interesting, and good stuff sound great.  I find the stats make great stuff sound exceptional, but stats don't do much with poor recordings (which, unfortunately, goes for a lot of synth-heavy stuff).

I'd like to keep an electrostat rig around for the exceptional detail, but the BA is making me give serious consideration to the dynamics again.  I'm pretty meh on the LCD-2 (R1 and R2), but the BA is a pretty awesome piece of kit.

Oh my god that Avison Ensemble is horrible. 

Compared to many people here i am quite new. Joining at the end of 2010. But i have to say that many of the people i remember being here in the beginning just aren't here anymore. I feel this place has become a breeding ground for new people with few people staying longer then a few months to a year. I also have a lot i am skeptical on the credibility of what a lot of members say on here. Dacs, everyone told me to get a Fiio E7 instead of Grado sr60s. Now that i own both Alessandro MS1 and a Fiio E7 i can claim that the fiio e7 is not worth it. I hear no difference between any of my onboard audio. In fact my acer laptops realtek onboard sounds better then any of the others i have tested. The Alessandro MS1 may be good but i still feel it is very scratchy and sounds like it is full of distortion. Luckily i enjoy that. I am also getting kind of annoyed how a lot of this website is starting to feel like some places on 4chan. My original displeasure with the shure srh750dj was for no reason other then the fact the recordings sounded bad. Same thing stood true for the srh840s. I now know that if i TURN DOWN MY MUSIC the sound quality on any pair of headphones increases exponentially. I enjoy these forums but i mostly hang around the members lounge area and the music forums. I also comment on headphone sightings in the headphones sightings thread. I feel i have also noticed that the beast bashing has also decreased lately with a lot of members voicing opinions in favor of beats to their target audience. I agree but even for the target audience you can get better for the price. One more thing which annoys me is the audio snobbery shown on these forums. Audiophiles claiming flat is the only way to go and colored ruins the music, or audio elitists claiming there music is always going to be better then everyone elses and think they are more of a music fan because they listen to classical. I find the attitude here as gone from positive when i first joined in 2010 to negative where it is now. Maybe i am looking to much into things but i feel all these things are dragging down my experience on the forums and don't make me want to get better gear. What i have experienced is headphones no matter the price break easier then speakers. Do to this i still wouldn't spend more then $300 on decent headphones. Even $200 is pushing it. Well bobsayshi a lot has changed since the earlier days when you had link as your avatar. But i am willing to stick around this forum for a while more. Maybe i can educate people on what i know from someone who is subjective with money. My rant is over.

Nope, but I'd sure like to one day. I don't even know if we have any BA's here in Australia.

An O2 and T50RP sounds pretty awesome to me, you need a quality DAC in that chain too though.

Not sure about Sydney, but there's at least one in Melb.
 

One in Brissy. (Jeff)

I should give up eventually, but fist I have to try the objective desktop amp and thunderpants. :)

idk, it's such a weird/niche thing to obsess about - SQ, but then again my abnormality never ceases to amaze me, and I would never want to be normal.