The diary entries of a little girl nearing 30! - Page 995  

 

No probably not, but we shouldn't encourage them.  They might cite you and think that they should go about doing something equally non-sensical.

 

Oh BTW, you were cited recently...  http://www.head-fi.org/t/583950/shure-srh1840-and-srh1440-unveiled/1755#post_8685494

 

 

Hmm, that memorable huh?  I never actually had a Solo, only a Studio and a SoloHD.  For me, at the end of the day, I found them unredeemable in just about every category.  And when a pair of cans make me work that hard to enjoy them, I usually end up putting them down (for good).  They were good for that street cred urban brand cache thing, but as I ususally don't hang with hipsters I found that "feature" to be of somewhat limited usefulness. 

 

Oh I assure you, it took a period of ownership to work up the ire that I have for Beats Studios and SoloHDs. 

I grew up watching Capt Harlock. I remember being 10 years old and getting up every Sunday to watch it at 10AM. It was my first exposure to Manga.

 

 

I noticed the absence of a certain individual and thought either he/she had gotten banned or had stopped coming back here because most of the regs had stopped answering his/her posts. Considering I've run across him/her posting in other threads I now know better as to why said user doesn't come here anymore. Can't say I'm surprised he/she was booted from this thread.

 

 

I wonder if all of us regs requesting the custom title of The Team Diary Audio Tribe or something to that effect would be to far fetched?

 

 

Tut tut tut i beg to differ, you may not post on the thread as most of us but when you do it's usually very insightful and entertaining. I think most of us on here consider you one of the bro's.

 

 

 

I think most of the people who work and run Ultrasone are hipsters

 

 

I hear you man I hear ya

Edited by DigitalFreak - 9/9/12 at 8:22pm

I think with cameras you have to get into the higher reaches of the hobby before people get sneery, though there's a bit of a purist element in the digital/film and Lomo/everyone else divides.

(I say this purely as an observer.)

http://cosmicears.com/

Custom IEMs... for pretty damn cheap (I saw 65 pounds for the cheapest one).

Interdasting!

There's always the SLR vs P&S arguments that periodically spring up on camera forums. In the earlier days of digital, there was quite a lot of hate for the non-traditional camera makers that came from the consumer electronics or video camera world instead of the photography world, for example: Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, etc. I haven't followed the world in several years so I really don't know if that is still the case. I doubt it - they are all simply electronics companies now.

I actually think it is not so much the "brand" that triggers the hatred - I think the trendy fanbois often do more to cause the backlash from the hobbyist community. "Trendy" tends to mean popular, and that means a high number of purchasers. With a higher number of owners, there is a MUCH broader set of the population, including a ton of people that don't know a headphone driver from golf club. That's unlike the more audiophile brands which tend to be known and bought by "knowledgeable" hobbyists. (But I suppose that was probably more true before all the brands decided they needed to be trendy!)

I think this is pretty true. With audio in general I would say Bose is the more popular brand to hate, but I've noticed Beats has taken a lot of that ire at least on Head-Fi.

Regarding cameras or cars - tough to say. They have much larger fanbases, and they're much less "conspicuous consumption" kinds of objects. I mean, sure, there's jokes about British cars in general ("if there ain't oil under it, there ain't oil in it" ; "you buy two, so you have one to drive while the other's in the shop" etc), and long-standing "rivalries" like Ford or Chevy, but I don't think there's any universally despised or hated automobile marquee. The same goes for cameras - sure there's a lot of film v digital back and forth (as barley alluded to), at least a few years ago (anymore though, just because of market proliferation, film is pretty rare). And then the age-old Nikon vs Canon thing, but because Nikon has changed so much in the last decade, again, it changes the tone of the debate.

I'm not sure it's so much about "hipster gene" though - I think it's more of an identity formation act. In other words, "oh I'm an enthusiast, I can't like the mainstream, because then I can't demonstrate that I'm an enthusiast." Like people who refuse to drink Starbucks and prefer whatever the newest "obscure" brand is, just so they can act/feel cultured or enlightened for going against the grain. I don't see hipsters (at least in the American sense of the word) as being in that alignment - most of them are quite content to go with the grain.

And that's where I think it's a difference in enthusiasm or whatever - between actual gearheads and mere consumers (this isn't meant to turn into a true scotsman argument).

 

Actually, PC enthusiasts have quite a bit of self-loathing because they also hate Windows.

 

 

Ahh, I see.

 

 

They offer a self-impressions kit?  What if I screw that up and get gunk in my ear?

 

 

Yugo.

That's still cool to do? I mean I know years and years ago it was the edgy 13 year old thing to do, but that's still "hip" these days?

I would bet you that you could find a Yugo Enthusiasts Community if you looked hard enough. The other response to that is "I said cars..."

 

Don't know about hip, but Microsoft never lets people forget the wretchedness from whence Windows 7 came.  It may be prettier.  But better?  Meh.

 

 

Okay but I would argue that such a membership list reads more like an organ donation list...  It's likely more of a survival tactic than an appreciation list.  Besides, there would be, what 19 people on that list?  Might not qualify as universal hatred in a literal sense, but on a practical level...

 

DeLoreans are pretty vile too (sans a Flex Capacitor that is).

Pacer, Edsel - and for me personally - Prius!

Oh - and don't forget the Molotov Cocktail of cars - the Pinto...

What's weird is that the Isuzu Trooper has the same exact fault, and has more documented in-field explosions, and yet does not have anywhere near the same derision associated with the Pinto. There was a recall and everything on this issue. Actually I would say it's not even limited to those two - the Ford Panther platform with the PI package or as an unfinished coach-body is notorious for the same exact explosion hazard (but that's usually due to your coach-builder being DUMB and just drilling wherever the hell they feel like it, seriously do people not understand "look before you dig" and why we have it?).

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Even on HERE I can't seem to get away from such people. Ten bones on the table says the guy who posted that comment is a Android fanatic and needs to get a real girlfriend. It's people like that that made me stop posting on mobile handset sites and lose all respect for the gadget enthusiast.

Edited by DigitalFreak - 9/9/12 at 9:41pm

Lol.

But haven't you heard, ADdroid is the best thing ever, because I heard Apple has this evil sensor in their products that can tell if you've submerged them, because they don't want to honor their warranties when you're just using the product in a normal manner - I mean, who doesn't need to text and update their Facebook status while windsurfing or heli-skiing?

I'll play devil's advocate and say that there are good reasons to dislike Beats, Starbucks, and Apple. We're getting very meta, but to criticize people for disliking those things because it's cool to dislike them is just as bad as criticizing those things in the first place, no? You're just jumping on the hate bandwagon either way.

I don't like Beats because I think they don't sound good for the price, they don't look very good, and they're popular because of a dumb endorsement and fashion. I actually do kinda like Starbucks, but local coffee shops usually are way better and cheaper. And Apple supports a closed-environment approach to computing which I loathe.

On the other hand, I have drank starbucks and may do so again in the near future, have owned and enjoyed an ipod, and have listened to Beats before.

I suppose disliking something just because it's popular is pretty dumb, but just because people dislike something that's popular doesn't mean they dislike it BECAUSE it's popular...
Edited by compoopers - 9/9/12 at 9:55pm