Non-audiophile reactions to high-end headphones Part II
Jul 24, 2014 at 9:39 AM Post #3,601 of 4,655
I'm sure there are people who honestly feel their gear is superior to that of some expensive audiophile setup. I know people who enjoy their Razer gear above all else even after they went to a Headfi meet. Sounds crazy, but it's true.
 
Jul 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM Post #3,602 of 4,655
I'm sure there are people who honestly feel their gear is superior to that of some expensive audiophile setup. I know people who enjoy their Razer gear above all else even after they went to a Headfi meet. Sounds crazy, but it's true.

Well, sound is subjective... :p
 
Jul 24, 2014 at 1:15 PM Post #3,603 of 4,655
   
Plenty of reasons for this. It may not be worth the money to them despite hearing the audio quality. They are probably not that enthusiastic about music and audio as the most of us on Head-fi. Etc, etc.


Yes, can be. But I often get into situation when I show them that thing, they like it and they also often buy it. They just didn´t have the right impulse or somehow didn´t know about it - didn´t go for it, even when all objective requirements are met. Somehow passive people.
 
Jul 24, 2014 at 1:35 PM Post #3,604 of 4,655
So I've had a pair of Q701s for a fair while, and like to let my family listen to it. My mother was pretty impressed with it when I first demoed them with an E17. She could tell they were better, but the cost probably still wasn't worth it to her.
 
Fast forward to more recently: I had just purchased a Schiit Vali, and had her try again with Carry On Wayward Son... she didn't realize she'd started singing along.
 
Jul 24, 2014 at 5:04 PM Post #3,605 of 4,655
  Guys, I´m hopeless.
Got some automatic subscriptions e-mail, so ran trough its topics, and found this one. Started to read very good and funny things at first page, one poster mentioning about 10 pages. Then went down and saw 240 pages of utterly nonsense geeks trolling - in which I fit pefectly and which is so funny! I dare you guys, who do you think will read 240 pages of text in dark evenings? :-D Okay, I´ll do that.
 
And here´s mine:
I´m not really audiophile, but I like healthy quality, power and ranges of every kind of device. Just like to have that usefull quality, power and headroom for emergencies, unlike that crap which when you "put that thing(some torture)", it will catch fire :) I believe many of you are that way.
 
It´s some time when I bought Emgeton E5 Cult MP3 player and Sennheiser PX 100s. Total cost was about $400 these days if memory serves me well. I took it eveywhere and listened everywhere, so people finally started to ask why do I do that all the time, and what do I see on just MP3 player and tinny headphones? I said "well, it´s just good quality and powerfull setup I like". Many people wanted to listen it, and all of those (usually bassheads) always freaked out when they listened it, with those headphones literally jumping on their heads (yes, PX can have powerfull bass).Then I really had people coming to listen it and then buy their own set of E5 and PX100. :)
I have the same with moderately cheap cam - Canon EOS M. People say something like "you took just this compact cam? If I knew it, I could take that shot with my phone instead". And when they see/feel that result, they go OMG, and I go laughing "TROLLFACE".
It´s funny, how people understand to qualities, like it very much, but very small percentage of people goes for it. Why is that?....


I am much the same I think. I don't consider myself an audiophile by any means. I just have two things that constantly bug me. I love good quality, and I really hate buyers remorse.
 
Making a good buy is hard, often you get sidetracked by a lot of useless stats or irrelevant requirements instead of just trying stuff out.
 
Jul 24, 2014 at 10:32 PM Post #3,607 of 4,655
 
I am much the same I think. I don't consider myself an audiophile by any means. I just have two things that constantly bug me. I love good quality, and I really hate buyers remorse.
 
Making a good buy is hard, often you get sidetracked by a lot of useless stats or irrelevant requirements instead of just trying stuff out.

Paradox of choice! Choices are suppose to give me the means to pick what we want most, but often we end up leaving a store thinking we could have made a better choice... exhausted thinking about every possibility... And we end up less happy and less willing to participate. 
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Even being able to try stuff out is difficult for most people though.
 
Jul 26, 2014 at 1:22 PM Post #3,608 of 4,655
I'm offended, I'm 15 too you know!

I find that people around the age 13-15, with good audio equipment or not often have a bad music taste (no offense! definetly doesnt apply to everybody
I've only got a few friends with good music taste but they're all rap
They usually go for shallow, bassy catchy stuff or whatever with little artistic depth, like pop, big rewm haus, trap, junk rap
I absolutely love psychedelic rock, but i still find myself coming back to electronic often because it's just so much easier to, it's the current music so thats what the people around you listening and plus, the artists are still alive lol
only four or five bands i like are still making music
frown.gif

 
also at such a young age there are more important things to buy than a desk full of headphones...
im sitting here with 3 headphones and 5 iems when i could be saving up to finally get a phone... or car... or house
mad.gif

 
Anyway
Last month I lost my clip+, poor guy, but a friend who wasn't using their ipod nano gave hers to me,
later my mummy's new!! iPhone 4 GS broke so she went over to the apple store, i was playing around with my nano and the guy helping my mummy asked me if the sound quality was good... lol
 
(it wasn't the sound quality is pretty bad)
(prefer my $40 clip any day)
(hell i even prefer the hardware more, this scroll wheel must be made out of recycled t-shirts or something)
 
Jul 26, 2014 at 1:28 PM Post #3,609 of 4,655
  I find that people around the age 13-15, with good audio equipment or not often have a bad music taste (no offense! definetly doesnt apply to everybody
I've only got a few friends with good music taste but they're all rap
They usually go for shallow, bassy catchy stuff or whatever with little artistic depth, like pop, big rewm haus, trap, junk rap
I absolutely love psychedelic rock, but i still find myself coming back to electronic often because it's just so much easier to, it's the current music so thats what the people around you listening and plus, the artists are still alive lol
only four or five bands i like are still making music
frown.gif

 
also at such a young age there are more important things to buy than a desk full of headphones...
im sitting here with 3 headphones and 5 iems when i could be saving up to finally get a phone... or car... or house
mad.gif

 
Anyway
Last month I lost my clip+, poor guy, but a friend who wasn't using their ipod nano gave hers to me,
later my mummy's new!! iPhone 4 GS broke so she went over to the apple store, i was playing around with my nano and the guy helping my mummy asked me if the sound quality was good... lol
 
(it wasn't the sound quality is pretty bad)
(prefer my $40 clip any day)
(hell i even prefer the hardware more, this scroll wheel must be made out of recycled t-shirts or something)

Taste develops as you go up the ladder I suppose.
 
My dt990s resolve so well that songs that are brickwalled sounds fatiguing to the ear.
Needless to say, I've started listening to oldies because most of them aren't brickwalled.
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Jul 26, 2014 at 2:32 PM Post #3,610 of 4,655
  I find that people around the age 13-15, with good audio equipment or not often have a bad music taste (no offense! definetly doesnt apply to everybody
I've only got a few friends with good music taste but they're all rap
They usually go for shallow, bassy catchy stuff or whatever with little artistic depth, like pop, big rewm haus, trap, junk rap
I absolutely love psychedelic rock, but i still find myself coming back to electronic often because it's just so much easier to, it's the current music so thats what the people around you listening and plus, the artists are still alive lol
only four or five bands i like are still making music
frown.gif

 
also at such a young age there are more important things to buy than a desk full of headphones...
im sitting here with 3 headphones and 5 iems when i could be saving up to finally get a phone... or car... or house
mad.gif

 
Anyway
Last month I lost my clip+, poor guy, but a friend who wasn't using their ipod nano gave hers to me,
later my mummy's new!! iPhone 4 GS broke so she went over to the apple store, i was playing around with my nano and the guy helping my mummy asked me if the sound quality was good... lol
 
(it wasn't the sound quality is pretty bad)
(prefer my $40 clip any day)
(hell i even prefer the hardware more, this scroll wheel must be made out of recycled t-shirts or something)

 
Be honest with you, I don't hear a difference between the , both set to flat at least.
This is basically what I listen to.

 

 

 

 

 

 
Jul 26, 2014 at 5:49 PM Post #3,611 of 4,655
 
I'm offended, I'm 15 too you know!

I find that people around the age 13-15, with good audio equipment or not often have a bad music taste (no offense! definetly doesnt apply to everybody
I've only got a few friends with good music taste but they're all rap
They usually go for shallow, bassy catchy stuff or whatever with little artistic depth, like pop, big rewm haus, trap, junk rap
I absolutely love psychedelic rock, but i still find myself coming back to electronic often because it's just so much easier to, it's the current music so thats what the people around you listening and plus, the artists are still alive lol
only four or five bands i like are still making music
frown.gif

 
also at such a young age there are more important things to buy than a desk full of headphones...
im sitting here with 3 headphones and 5 iems when i could be saving up to finally get a phone... or car... or house
mad.gif

 
Anyway
Last month I lost my clip+, poor guy, but a friend who wasn't using their ipod nano gave hers to me,
later my mummy's new!! iPhone 4 GS broke so she went over to the apple store, i was playing around with my nano and the guy helping my mummy asked me if the sound quality was good... lol
 
(it wasn't the sound quality is pretty bad)
(prefer my $40 clip any day)
(hell i even prefer the hardware more, this scroll wheel must be made out of recycled t-shirts or something)

I am 17 but my Last.FM pretty much reflects what I listen to. I guess you can say my most played artists are crap but there are some few good ones. 
 
Jul 26, 2014 at 7:42 PM Post #3,613 of 4,655
Headphones broadened my taste immensely from rock and metal to just about any genre. Among others, folk, classic, jazz, acoustic, singer-song writer, blues, a little electronic so on so forth. Good music isn't really genre dependent, though I have my preferences.
 
Jul 26, 2014 at 8:58 PM Post #3,614 of 4,655
I find that people around the age 13-15, with good audio equipment or not often have a bad music taste (no offense! definetly doesnt apply to everybody
I've only got a few friends with good music taste but they're all rap
They usually go for shallow, bassy catchy stuff or whatever with little artistic depth, like pop, big rewm haus, trap, junk rap

I absolutely love psychedelic rock, but i still find myself coming back to electronic often because it's just so much easier to, it's the current music so thats what the people around you listening and plus, the artists are still alive lol
only four or five bands i like are still making music :frowning2:

also at such a young age there are more important things to buy than a desk full of headphones...
im sitting here with 3 headphones and 5 iems when i could be saving up to finally get a phone... or car... or house :mad:

Anyway
Last month I lost my clip+, poor guy, but a friend who wasn't using their ipod nano gave hers to me,
later my mummy's new!! iPhone 4 GS broke so she went over to the apple store, i was playing around with my nano and the guy helping my mummy asked me if the sound quality was good... lol

(it wasn't the sound quality is pretty bad)
(prefer my $40 clip any day)
(hell i even prefer the hardware more, this scroll wheel must be made out of recycled t-shirts or something)
yeah, I like sansa's much more than ipods too. You don't have any dedicated home headphones that I can see in your sig, so I'm guessing you usually used your sansa? That sucks. Good thing they are fairly cheap. :wink: I think ill be getting a Fuze, or a Fuze+ and rockboxing it. (fuze+ sucks without rockbox according to the mainly 1 star amazon reviews. And according to some users on here, all the problems go away with rockbox.) anyways, I listen to mainly non-mainstream electronic, like this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3nuHcW6SXk I also listen to 70's-80's pop and rock, j-pop, big band, orchestra, etc... Interestingly, with each headphone I've gotten, I found a genre I liked that I didn't before. My mom actually just recently listened to my cans, and I played "Take It To The Limit" by The Eagles... She started to tear up.
 
Jul 26, 2014 at 9:07 PM Post #3,615 of 4,655
I listen to a lot of electronic genres, from ambient to trap and pretty much everything in between (speedcore, glitch hop, dubstep, and my personal fave, electro haus). Though I do, I still find myself listening to orchestral soundtracks from time to time, especially my recently-acquired Child of Light OST. Simply beautiful music that doesn't feel too "classical" or "traditional." Then there's jazz, some R&B, The Carpenters, rock & roll, pop rock, solo piano, and some fingerstyle (guitar).
 
Like @davidsh, good music isn't genre dependent. In my opinion, it's more artist dependent. I mean, sure, there are a lot of bad dubstep artists (*ahem* Skrillex *ahem*), but there are better ones. Then again, the pop genre is beyond saving now, so I wouldn't dabble into all the trash the recent artists have turned it into. Pop's pretty much a catch-all genre by now.
 

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