I'll go all the way and spend whatever, just to get something that I'm happy with. I think they top out under £250, which is a lot for an IEM, but potentially worth it. OFC if there's anything better or some cheap customs to be had...

Just wore some super.fi to the shops, and everybody was looking at me like i was from Mars. and i liked it All joking aside, should I get some new Sony armature IEMs? And if so, which model?

Wouldn't decoding something simpler, like FLAC, use less processor? Besides, they probably all using i7s and GPUs that compare to old Crays. Do they even need that extra frame?

when these are what you'd expect your favourite speakers to be yeah, i know this a headphone forum, and yeah these things are overpriced, but their promise of concert-like reproduction has me enraptured they're jamo r909, and as fair as i know, you can build copies pretty cheaply still want

Multiple masters of your favourite albums, and you have opinions on which ones are best, where and when.

are these like regular chips, but the foil in the bag can be charged to a thousand volts to keep unwanted fingers out?

be warned that some amps have truly awful headphone stages. i mean there are 70s amps that drove headphones through the main amp, but put resistors in series, but now many modern amps have a separate and not very good headphone stage of their own

When you have Amperior, Etymotic HF2 and Senn CX300II in your bag so that you're covered for all listening situations from isolation to calls to just a few casual tunes on the way home. When the headphone selection process takes longer than picking your shirt. When you don't want to take the...

d'aw. you should be getting their FB accs and doing stuff with them

In football, the commentators often wear HD25s with a mic, tho. I've noticed it myself. The coaches on the pitch wore giant Motorolas the last time I looked.

ding ding ding ding. and here, ladies and gents, we have the worst headphones. if beats are a ****ty plastic status symbol alike nike air, then trying to co-opt their market with a cut price version is the peak of ****

Yeah, they're HD25s, and probably the pro model with a split headband. I wouldn't be surprised with Bowers guy being an Apple user and a self proclaimed computer expert because of which. The P5 are nice headphones, but it's obvious they're an iPhone fashion accessory and viciously overpriced...

do like. ofc a true audiophile would be prepared to have a bomb for a portable rig, so long as it sounded good

I have a feeling that some people put one side on and stretch the headphones over and around their head to some degree, instead of sliding them on. If there's any chance of them breaking, the former method will certainly not help. Coming to that, I'm the clumsiest man on Planet Clumsy, yet I...

Not enough mids. I haven't got PX100s, but I had some Portapro and HD229, and the latter impressed me that much, that I abandoned my £200 IEMs with their £20 sound. Sound quality over the 70s and 80s must have been taking a nose dive with the adoption of earbuds and ever cheaper walkmen with...

Real cooks don't use instructions! They just read recipes and learn how to cook with what they've got or for who they're with. Amazing dishes like caesar salad have been ad-libbed, and god knows how many cocktails and deserts. You'll know you're there when you cook something tasty from shoes...

A couple of pairs of these within seconds of each other, except in a green I've not seen before. They might have been something else, but it occurs to me that these or something like them are everywhere. I'll bet some store in town has 1000s of 'em.

Yeah, all the Beats hate bores me a little. It's like with cars there's always one marque or model getting unfair treatment. For example, BMWs seem to inspire a lot of spite and jealousy and passed down stories. With this is mind, Beats must be the Escalade of headphones: obnoxious, overpriced...

I was brought up on a diet of copied cassettes on the cheapest possible media, but this changed when CDs became a thing. As such I can deal with hiss, and in some cases know that you have to bear a little so that it can retain the detail. You are now aware that some computers and PMPs hiss a...

I've seen some top end Senn BT headphones in HMV, and lots of cheaper, interesting stuff, and I think they even have HD25. It's nice to look at the stuff and play with the display iPads and whatever, but mostly everything is overpriced. I did score some Sony MDR-EX500 for £5, reduced from £70...

He's 11. Peer pressure is massive to kids, so he'll probably agree that HD600s or whatever are better, and then still want Beats. Besides, who at that age, who wants to be the dork with an amp strapped to their iPhone? Unless ofc you can convince him that's cool. But then again, peer pressure.

You'll often find used audio lube in city parks and on beaches, or in other places audiophiles head out for a good night of music.

remember to grease yourself up with some sort of audio lube, so you can give your opponents a run for their money

nah. the most discreet way is to strap it to your body

This. I can hear a poorly encoded track, and sometimes codecs sound slightly different, but generally a good 128 is convincing for most of a CD. The whole reason I use V0 is because it nearly always deals with the difficult bits like snare and complex cymbals. It's like wine tasting: a lot of...