JiggaD369
500+ Head-Fier
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I haven't made the order yet but if someone wants to split the shipping cost with me, please PM me!
I hate you guys. Made me get both the XBA-40 and Ckn70.
Curious to see if you think double the price ends up yielding double the sound quality.
What is lacking in the ckn50s SQ? In comparison. Just curious what the 70s would need to make up.
Kelly Clarkson HA! Double HA!!! Just joking.
Meng and i thought i be trolling, these namebrands and their micro driver iems be trollin' like a felon. I guess its true that there can never be a "perfect" iem or headphone cuz these companies always like to troll us with something. Guess that's how they make their dough.$$$$$
Hmmm, you learn something new everyday, never knew that about dogs. Well i guess now you have a even better excuse to keep them new audio gears rolling in so you can make that lil' "sniffer" boss of yours happy.
Great to hear that harshness/ sibilance goes away after such a short amount of burn-in. Man ATH is heading at the right direction in sonic speed this year. Crazy!!!
You know what's up ghost, the micro sonic showdown, JVC vs. ATH. vs. Sony. FIGHT!!! Dat triple sonic onslaught.
What is lacking in the ckn50s SQ? In comparison. Just curious what the 70s would need to make up.
Hey guys, here is a word of wisdom: $200+ audio gear beats the stuff out of $50+ audio gear. Skip the $50+ gear and save up for the $200+ gear if you don't have the money right now. It pays. If you have the money, don't feel sorry for your wallet and stop reading this post and go and get some dream gear right away, be it $200+ or higher ($1000+!) if you can afford it without dishonoring money obligations. Every minute that you wait, is a wasted minute of enjoyment. Money is a renewable resource. Time isn't. We have been blessed with audio technology and we only live once. Money is your servant, not your master. HA, HA.
Alberto01 said:. Hey guys, here is a word of wisdom: $200+ audio gear beats the stuff out of $50+ audio gear. Skip the $50+ gear and save up for the $200+ gear if you don't have the money right now. It pays. If you have the money, don't feel sorry for your wallet and stop reading this post and go and get some dream gear right away, be it $200+ or higher ($1000+!) if you can afford it without dishonoring money obligations. Every minute that you wait, is a wasted minute of enjoyment. Money is a renewable resource. Time isn't. We have been blessed with audio technology and we only live once. Money is your servant, not your master.
Quote:Hey guys, here is a word of wisdom: $200+ audio gear beats the stuff out of $50+ audio gear. Skip the $50+ gear and save up for the $200+ gear if you don't have the money right now. It pays. If you have the money, don't feel sorry for your wallet and stop reading this post and go and get some dream gear right away, be it $200+ or higher ($1000+!) if you can afford it without dishonoring money obligations. Every minute that you wait, is a wasted minute of enjoyment. Money is a renewable resource. Time isn't. We have been blessed with audio technology and we only live once. Money is your servant, not your master. HA, HA.
Well i agree with you to a certain degree that playing around in the budget-fi arena is a "waste of money and time," but isn't the journey not the destination is what counts??? How can you know or discover your ideal/ fav sound siggy if you just go straight to the top and end it there? A lot of head-fiers are noobs like me, so many have no idea what great sounding gears are or what the proper terms that are use to describe sound are. Playing around with budget-fi gives you lots of opportunities to learn mods/ discover what you truly want out of you audio gears. So when you finally do get that shiny $$$ set of dream cans, you will appreciate them that much more, no??? Where's the fun in going straight to the top from the start, if you don't learn/ pick up some tricks along the journey youknowhatimeng! Well that was just my cheap @ss talking so don't mind me, just trying to make excuses for myself to stay cheap.
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Hey guys, here is a word of wisdom: $200+ audio gear beats the stuff out of $50+ audio gear. Skip the $50+ gear and save up for the $200+ gear if you don't have the money right now. It pays. If you have the money, don't feel sorry for your wallet and stop reading this post and go and get some dream gear right away, be it $200+ or higher ($1000+!) if you can afford it without dishonoring money obligations. Every minute that you wait, is a wasted minute of enjoyment. Money is a renewable resource. Time isn't. We have been blessed with audio technology and we only live once. Money is your servant, not your master.
Here's where I'm going to have to disagree.
In this crazy world of OEMs, new and emerging companies, MSRPs, liquidation, marketing and price gouging, cost cannot be equated to quality anymore.
I'll give you an example. An OEM called Yoga made a headphone called the CD-880 a while back. Many companies bought this headphone and rebranded it. Fischer called it the FA-003 and charged about $200 for it. Brainwavz called it the HM5 and charged about $120 for it. Jaycar Electronics called it the DigiTech Pro Monitor and charged $60 for it. With this many links in the chain, we really don't know what we're getting anymore.
While there may be $200 equipment, there is no such thing as a $200 sound. People pay $200 for everything from M50s to M80s to AD900Xs to DT770s to SR225s to HM5s to 840s to HD 580s. Certainly, these headphones cannot be lumped together as having one homogeneous $200 sound, as they all sound incredibly different.
It even occurs at the high end. Many people report favoring the HD600 to the HD700. Are they wasting their time for not saving up for the $1000 gear?
Is there a correlation between spending more and getting more? Certainly. If there wasn't, this industry would be very broken. But, correlation does not equal causation, and as such, spending $200 on a piece of equipment doesn't immediately make it better than a piece of $50 equipment.
In confusing the economic value of equipment with the sonic value of equipment, a very important question is raised.
Are we here to spend the most money, or are we here to experience the best sound?
If the later option is our true goal, we will have a much easier time achieving this if we disenthrall ourselves from the illusion that spending more money is the easiest way to reach fulfillment.