I've been seeing them in the wild (Microsoft is local), but I still haven't had the opportunity to try one.

Yes, most ANC headphones can be. Sony and Bose, for example, both allow users to turn the ANC down or off. But their sound quality is still bad compared to non-ANC headphones at a similar price point. That's the sad reality of ANC. If it weren't, mid-fi, high-fi, and summit-fi...

My reference for everything tends to be my Etymōtic Research ER4XR, because they're reference, except with bass ramped up, up to 6dB worth. Listening to Angel Eyes (artist listed as "Bass and Saxophone" on Mirantz Hi-End Audiophile Test Demo CD 7), I hear the Shozy hit all of the notes the...

Sometimes I think that the difference between Ety owners who don't own better sounding headphones and Ety owners who do own better sounding headphones mostly comes down to whether or not they've got the Ety seal figured out for their particular ear canal. There's a good seal, similar to a good...

Wrong. Counterexamples have been given upthread. If two displays, with the same dimensions and pixel count, take up the same steradians of your field of view, you will not be able to determine their size without knowing their distance, or the distance without knowing their size. At the correct...

These sorts of minor factors are already taken care of with the statistical methods used. In particular, we use an alpha value much closer to zero than one-half. That helps prevent erroneously rejecting the null hypothesis. There's no need to concern ourselves with an inability to hear...

Don't feel bad I can't either, and the science side of this is my wheelhouse. Best I can tell is he's trying to rationalize why perfectly valid methods shouldn't be used.

My Shozy BK (Stardust) arrived yesterday. Oh my! This sounds fantastic! I had pretty high expectations, and they've been met (and exceeded). The sound signature sits comfortably between my two favorite headphones, HD650 and SR325e, with favored sound characteristics from each of them. I'm not...

As explained, just one classification is needed: Isolating or passive. The level of isolation is the primary factor determining whether a 'phone is appropriate. You see exactly such earbuds these days. Like me, you must have missed the emergence of premium earbuds. The Shozy BK I just picked...

Unfortunately, none of those classifiers can determine for me whether or not a particular 'phone is well-suited for the task. Isolation level does just that. Sounds good vs like ass: In the wrong listening environment, phenomenal headphones sound like ass. Try using an HD800 on transit. You'd...

Who claimed numbers are equivalent to data? Even with meaningful units, having a number does not imply having a datum, nor has anyone claimed as such.

"Data without a context of theory isn't [sic] really even data." Data without the context of theory aren't really even data. Well, what are they, because you declared that they are data in the subject of your sentence. So they are data, while simultaneously being not-data? What, exactly, are...

In the case of the 58x vs 6xx, maybe, maybe not. In general, cognitive biases are a major driver for high-end audio (and non-audio) sales.

Since what you wrote contradicted itself, we can safely dismiss it as nonsense. :)

The numbers and stats are not easily removed from science, as anyone familiar with science would tell you. Mathematics is the language of science, and statistics is the language of scientific research. The part of your post that I quoted was nonsensical, self-inconsistent gibberish.