It's a nice idea that the Sound Science section of head-fi should actually utilize scientific method, but I think you'll find it a lost cause. Go to hydrogenaudio.org, where moderators will actually warn users for making unverifiable claims.

Uh, I guess you only download music since it seems you've never heard of transcoding your music... There are a tonne of programs that will let you transcode flac to mp3... Foobar2000 to name just one. If you want to have flac on your mp3 player because you think it sounds better... Well...

Well you know, Sennhieser has been around a really long time, have a huge loyal customer base, and isn't disappearing anytime soon. This item is really a collectable, and for some people that has a sentimental value worth this price tag. The true value of an item is what a person is willing to...

I've had my earphones for about a year and a half and there is no problem. Old earphones still work. I considered writing a guide on how to take care of earphones, but it seems way too pretentious. What it boils down to is that people need to stop wrapping the drat wire around their mp3...

On this forum, with the advice people give, many are doing themselves hearing damage. There is no headphone (CONTROVERSY =P) that requires an amplifier to make it loud enough. The driver is never more than an inch from your ear, it doesn't need that much power even if your headphone says '300...

Well, the strato is something that helps them sell CDs and tickets to their performances. It's really not as insane a price to pay as you might think it would be, when it increases profit.

As well they should, considering the people who sell those cables are crooks that don't spend more than $40 to make a cable that is inferior to the standard.

For $800 I'll put a cassette player in a fancy box too  

I don't think people look at this thing and think 'expensive.' I think I trust dfkt on the insides, too.

Musicians are creative people and audiophiles are people who like to shop lol. Both like music, but the musician looks at the composition of the song for what should be improved, while the audiophile looks at the quality of the reproduction. As long as the quality of the reproduction isn't...

http://www.audiotronic.ca/Products/Detail/218233 I seriously see these all the freaking time. I don't know what it is about them... I've never liked to be elitist about audio, so I don't scoff at people who wear ibuds or whatever, but when I first saw these I thought 'wow, those look kind of...

I wish I could just try the K701 to see if they are really so different as people claim. I like my 650s a lot, but if the 701s actually sound reasonably different it would add variety into my life.

192 kb/s mp3 is perfect... It's 30 kb/s above what is tested to be imperceptible. FLAC is an archival format worth having (on an external harddrive), but it'll eat up all your HD space if you use your PC's dedicated harddrive (depending on whether or not you use it for anything else, I guess)...

More of an excuse to play with my camera than to show off my mp3 player.. http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5076/dsc0416i.jpg

Well this is standard protocal and you really screwed up... Costs a lot of money to evacuate a building so that no one can work. There's nothing paranoid about this... Government buildings cannot accept suspicious packages. crap happens though, I guess.

I don't see anything wrong with gifting him a good pair of phones :) You two sound like great friends. Don't listen to the people who say to leave him alone. The only reason he doesn't use better phones is because he can't justify spending that much on a luxury item for himself. It's like people...

Quote: WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN !!! T.T It's not a physical object (ok, the waves sort of are, but that's a huge misunderstanding of how they work). Oh, the K701s are spicy, but have limited sweetness. They have a tall sound, but its also very skinny. The sound is brown, which would be...

How can you get 5.1 on two speakers? The reason it sounds 'muddy' is because all they're doing is messing with the sound levels to try and fool your brain. So obviously they're not going to sound right no matter what headphones you use. I own the HD650, and I can attest there are indeed only...

Quote: Sorry to bump a 10 day old thread, but posts like these intrigue me. If you've done an ABX test before, why wouldn't you just save the results (number of trials, number of successful matches vs unsuccessful) so people can view it easily and add credibility to your statement (which...

If the person were using a laptop to listen to their music, I'd just tell them to get a dedicated music player (with amp and dac built in obviously). As long as you use standardized materials, all 3 components are easy to meet. There's no such thing as upgrading once you meet relatively simple...

Yeah, mp3 has gotten a lot more efficient and better. They didn't just randomly stop developing it, or else it would have been overtaken as the standard vs other competitive codecs. I read about a year ago that trained listeners can hear the difference between mp3 128 and lossless about 50%...

My thoughts exactly. You'd think a topic derailed on post 4 would be closed, but I guess views are more important to a site which has become entirely about advertising and profit. There is a politics subforum for people who like giving amateur history/philosophy lessons to strangers on the...

Any old radio or whatever. Sometimes it's even nice to have the rustic feel of a bit of static, although clearly it depends on the music. Some stuff is easier to listen to on bad equipment, and some stuff just sounds like nothing. Ironically, it's probably the music that already has distortion...

Actually, what I just said about human beings not liking being wrong is a bad assumption. I don't think it's human beings, but I think that it's widely taught in many cultures that that being wrong is a bad thing and that it makes one less attractive to those around him or her. I think there are...

It's explained right in the OP.... It's because we experience cognitive dissonance when something contradicts something that is attached to parts of our life that are not easily changed. For example, if you spend 10 years of your life buying audio equipment only to find out it is all useless...