MiffyRabbit
New Head-Fier
On my search for a affordable bluetooth headphone, I've noticed people on Head-Fi peer pressuring others to jump up to a $1,300 bluetooth headphone that is the best headphone ever.
I saw posts that Dali was advertising that their expensive headphone sounds just like an electrostatic headphone and with the lowest distortion in a headphone.
I've attached a video below.
@2:36 - 6:08
The Dali employee here is saying almost all headphone drivers on the market are "cost effective, commoditized, no focus on the driver" they have the solution that no one else has, with the lowest distortion possible.
I felt like Sound Science was the best place to inquire about this.
I sent a message to Gregorio about this topic, and he gave me really good insight of his thoughts! There are some red flags in their marketing material such as not fully publishing evidence that their driver is actually audible in reducing distortion. Greg also mentioned that Dali's marketing is "in this case Eddy Currents and Magnetic Hysteresis but more commonly something like jitter or skin effect and then make some claim about your product being better because it reduces or removes the effect but the consumer can’t verify the claim because it’s a complex effect that only scientists/engineers specializing in those specific areas will fully understand."
I wanted to post in the Sound Science to get more thoughts on this style of Audiophile marketing that utilizes Scientific Concepts.
Is this a way just to squeeze money out of people? Creating a problem and then selling the solution?
https://www.dali-speakers.com/en-us/sound-academy/tech/patented-soft-magnetic-composite-smc/
I've attached a link to Dali's webpage about the patent for the Soft Magnetic Composite driver.
I wanted to add pricepoints for a couple of products.
Dali IO-12 Bluetooth Headphone cost $1,300 USD
Dali Kore Flagship speaker utilizing SMC driver costing $120,000 USD
I definitely am not interested in purchasing a headphone for $1,300 USD.
I am worried that people are being squeezed out of their money due to peer pressure or having to fit into a crowd to have the best headphone.
I saw posts that Dali was advertising that their expensive headphone sounds just like an electrostatic headphone and with the lowest distortion in a headphone.
I've attached a video below.
@2:36 - 6:08
The Dali employee here is saying almost all headphone drivers on the market are "cost effective, commoditized, no focus on the driver" they have the solution that no one else has, with the lowest distortion possible.
I felt like Sound Science was the best place to inquire about this.
I sent a message to Gregorio about this topic, and he gave me really good insight of his thoughts! There are some red flags in their marketing material such as not fully publishing evidence that their driver is actually audible in reducing distortion. Greg also mentioned that Dali's marketing is "in this case Eddy Currents and Magnetic Hysteresis but more commonly something like jitter or skin effect and then make some claim about your product being better because it reduces or removes the effect but the consumer can’t verify the claim because it’s a complex effect that only scientists/engineers specializing in those specific areas will fully understand."
I wanted to post in the Sound Science to get more thoughts on this style of Audiophile marketing that utilizes Scientific Concepts.
Is this a way just to squeeze money out of people? Creating a problem and then selling the solution?
https://www.dali-speakers.com/en-us/sound-academy/tech/patented-soft-magnetic-composite-smc/
I've attached a link to Dali's webpage about the patent for the Soft Magnetic Composite driver.
I wanted to add pricepoints for a couple of products.
Dali IO-12 Bluetooth Headphone cost $1,300 USD
Dali Kore Flagship speaker utilizing SMC driver costing $120,000 USD
I definitely am not interested in purchasing a headphone for $1,300 USD.
I am worried that people are being squeezed out of their money due to peer pressure or having to fit into a crowd to have the best headphone.