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  1. kimosabe

    Pics of Headphones... Rules: ONE PIC. NO WORDS!

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    Reply to review by 'kimosabe' on item 'Xiaomi Mi Headphone'

    No offense meant, but I feel we need to clear up a few things:   Here are 6 pictures from the very article you cite: http://www.soomal.com/pic/20100050664.pic.htm   The picture you reference is one in which the Be coating was removed from the mylar base. Mention is made of the very thin...
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    Reply to review by 'kimosabe' on item 'Xiaomi Mi Headphone'

    Maniac, Consider exchanging for another pair under warrantee,, as I examined my diaphragms thoroughly and the Be coating is uniform. You will need to pay domestic shipping one way, but if your cans are as bad as you say, they are far worse than mine and certainly you should return for refund...
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    Audiophile cables, an interesting question.

    Firstly, I stand corrected, Steve Eddy - and thanks for the sensational link Secondly, kudos to Sam Biddle for elucidating this fascinating tale from, seemingly, the very people that had exhibited such extremely poor judgement. While most people I know would have said, "no comment" he gets a...
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    Audiophile cables, an interesting question.

    Yes, funny letter from Google.   I may be a bit more complicated..   According to Crunchbase, Monster still manufactures these headphones; "Monster engineered and brought the Beats® headphones to market, and has since become the world's leading manufacturer of high-performance headphones. -...
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    Audiophile cables, an interesting question.

    Cables are like nutritional supplement beverages and defense attorneys - never ask a question if you risk an adverse answer. Let us remember that Monster began selling snake-oil cables and is now a multi-national conglomerate of epic proportions. In fact, they manufacture Beats (regardless of...
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    Show us your vintage headphones!

    Got a pair of STAX 40s from a fire sale (literally, the high-end shop in Westchester NY had a fire) 90% off around 1977 as I recall. They kind of decomposed  over the years due to the PU construction of the transducers. Fantastic sound.  
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    Reply to review by 'kimosabe' on item 'Xiaomi Mi Headphone'

    The construction is fantastic - not so much the audio quality. So far at 30 hours of burn-in. bass and treble are well represented, but not stellar. There is a disturbing lack of mid-range resulting in subdued vocals and a substantively reduced sound-stage.   Some less expensive headphones (at...
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    $2 Realtek Audio Chip = $2000 DAC!

    Ironic tagline quote of Stephen Wolfram.   Tom's is well known for objective, appropriate test design. As in all things, you can invest orders of magnitude of effort (here, $) squeezing out the last 0.000001% of performance or efficiency from a system. I see no reason to resort to infantile...
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