bangraman
Headphoneus Supremus
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I remember the wars XD... And I remember making a few pointed comments in particular about the flagship cable of a maker who's still around that some people got *really* defensive about.Well, it's actually gotten better, 20 years ago there is no measurements here and (almost)everyone believed in cable burn in.
Though I think one of the problems now of equipment to measure with being much more readily available is that while you can generate charts using the kit and slap them on a website, it's not a guarantee you have the methodology right... so it just becomes a different (and maybe worse, since it's backed up by charts) kind of subjectivity: Bad data is worse than no data.
It's sort of telling that many of the enthusiast focused sites use the same sort of language that was evident 20 years ago in the better produced (and still completely BS in terms of subjectivity) blogs, while serving up often questionably objective measurements.
But what's making Head-Fi itself more niche is pretty evident: Forums are no longer relevant. Back when it started forums were pretty much the only usable way to join an interest group. Now it's probably the last thing people think of.