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post #1 of 14
1/3/05 at 5:48am
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If I was considering spending more than $1000 on headphones which pair should I buy?
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post #2 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:00am
Is this a curiosity thread or a "I'm actually considering spending 1k" thread?

Sony R10
Sony Qualia 010
Sennheiser Orpheus
Stax Omega II
Grado PS1/HP-1/2

are some high-priced bastards.

If anyone even considers buying a >1k phone for their ipod, well . . . baby, I think it's time to kill again.
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post #3 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:03am
Audio Technica ATH-L3000 / ATH-W2002
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post #4 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:21am
Heh heh - i've just been playing with a function on my website which might help answer this question
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post #5 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:36am
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Yeah, well, were is the MSRP Commando? Hmmm, Hmmm, where is it? Oh, thats right, its not there. NO biggie. You might want to try an algorythem for the value colum so everything is between say 10 and 0.
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post #6 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:39am
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Originally Posted by P The D
Yeah, well, were is the MSRP Commando? Hmmm, Hmmm, where is it? Oh, thats right, its not there. NO biggie. You might want to try an algorythem for the value colum so everything is between say 10 and 0.
Price on there - not MSRP, street price, which I think is more useful.

An algorithm that would normalise the value from 0 to 10 would be difficult, as very cheap headphones that sound good would compress the scale so much it'd be very hard to use. As it is now it's not too bad.
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post #7 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:41am
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Isn't that the point of an algorythm, to get rid of compression and expansion to normalise the resulting values a little?
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post #8 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:45am
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Originally Posted by P The D
Isn't that the point of an algorythm, to get rid of compression and expansion to normalise the resulting values a little?
The point of "an algorythm" is to do whatever the programmer wants it to do. I could come up with an algorithm that puts the value of most headphones between 0 and 10 easily enough, but right now it typical values go between 0 and 20, which is good enough for me.
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post #9 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:50am
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Alrighty, seems reasonable to me 0-20 it is then. So anyway, nobody pay any atention to all that stuff and post only about the threads title please.
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post #10 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:55am
You could try this page too. Sennheiser HE90s seem to review well.
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post #11 of 14
1/3/05 at 6:59am
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The Senns don't do that bad huh? Well NOOOOOOO, don't tell me that, I thought they would suck? I Like that compare feature too. I'm a little surprised at how many reviews and how much knowledge there is on cans that cost over $1000. I mean there are as many reviews on the SE90s as there are on a bunch of sub-$100 cans.
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post #12 of 14
1/3/05 at 7:04am
I'm kinda suprised too. The most reviews are for reasonably priced cans, A900 to Senn 650 type priceranges. There's quite a few for cheaper cans too.
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post #13 of 14
1/3/05 at 7:08am
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What like 7 for HD650s; 6 for A900s & 4 for K501s & K271S. Quite surprising the number of over $1000 reviews when you think about how many people have sub-$1000 cans and the number that have over $1000 cans (what is the opposite prefix to sub?) How many active members are there on the site?
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post #14 of 14
1/3/05 at 7:10am
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Looks like 106 reviews over what two months, three months?
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