Check Out The Head-Fi Summer 2012 Buying Guide! - Page 2

I love these professionally done guides.

Its become a mini collection for me//

Thanks Jude for giving back to the family//

Constructive criticism I can offer is font, font size and layouts that challenge legibility, especially on-screen reading. Looking modern is apt for the product lines shown, but perhaps not at the expense of easy reading. The pdf format, with no printing costs, allows long documents. Information can sprawl out a little more and not be as compressed. The present layout requires a large screen, something that not everyone has.

As a corollary, I do signage as a profession and I see signs all the time that look like they cost a lot of money, but do the owner a disservice. There's no bang for the buck when the expensive, beautifully made sign is hard to read, or it's message too copious for the typical gait of the passing audience.

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Originally Posted by jude 

 

Regarding user-friendliness of the format: We'll await more feedback, but can reevaluate how its laid out and formatted.

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I like the separation of different headphone categories similar to how Tyll from InnerFidelity organized his "Wall of Fame" article (e.g. open-back and closed-back circumaurals, open-back and closed-back supra-aurals, in-ear earphones and custom IEM's, etc.). I was honestly looking for LCD-3 under the "Headphones Over-Ear" section when it was actually near the very end in the Summit-Fi section.

As of right now, the guide is pretty good if one is just browsing for new gear in general (such as myself), but I think it can be made better with more, better defined, categories. The one/two-page ads were also a bit confusing when they were put right next to category-changing page, but it's an ad, I can't expect too much change since it's standard in nearly all magazines.

Also, I think the featured articles/gear should be mentioned in consistent places in the guide (e.g. at the beginning or end of each category, all at the beginning, all at the end). It was confusing to see a black featured article page at the end of the "Headphones Over-Ear" category (over-ear as in circumaural? that's what comes to mind when I see over-ear, as opposed to on-ear) and another black page immediately following for the featured headphone in the "Gaming Headsets" category.

More feedback, I like the creativity with colours and fonts, but some fonts are hard to read. For example, it took me a good 20 seconds (or more) to figure out what the wording was on page 44 in the guide. I thought it said "rahlpc"....and yes...I did type that in Google because I had no idea what "rahlpc" was.

I'm probably the only one who thought this though. I'm not much of a cabling guy. >.>

On page 45, underneath the page number, I misread "headphone cables" as "headphone gooies"

I found this something really enjoyable to read, but not extremely helpful.
hope you could include the genres of music you think the headphones might perform best in.

I am only a few months into personal audio and I think this guide is very newbie friendly!

Great job! Jude 

great read. thanks!

Read the sections that interest me. Good work on the whole article. Some of the font bugged me though but otherwise, it was well produced. :)

Looks great, noted a couple of typos, was writing them and... power went out, deleted my post! LOL. Anyway, well done Jude!

P.S. just noted a pricing typo for the NuForce DAC-100... it shows the price of the Icon HDP.

Could have put in some budget-fi. But still a good read. Thanks!

That's excellent work Jude! Love it.

Thanks Jude, whenever someone asks tor a headphone recommendation, I'll show them this.

miam...thanks guys!

Oh no i have seen something else to buy!! Cheers