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Auzede LCD-2 vs. Audio Technica W5000
Crying about ath-w5000 "graphs" is funny, since you forget it's dummy head with dummy ears that have certain kind acoustic properties,move bits and parts of dips on spectrum that are in headphones that measure completly flat on same dummy head and voila you get "double" error that looks like...- hiisinux
- Post #28
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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ATH W-5000,New Contender for Top Headphone
Phonder, wheres Audio-technica ultimate ear pad fit guide? was just wondering if ath-a2000x pads would fit to w5000, how it affects sound and so on...- hiisinux
- Post #88
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Wired Article: "Placebos Are Getting More Effective"
Actually if you read up you notice how this increasing placebo effect affects more anti-depressants and that type of drugs, NOT all drugs. It raises interesting question why? even not the smartest guy around block knows that subjectively alcohol helps when having emotional issues, but it's...- hiisinux
- Post #37
- Forum: Sound Science
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Ways to improve hearing ability?
Some semantics needed? The Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Centre: home of TRT Imho must read for every hifist. Whether you have tinnutus or not... Also it has intresting implications, if you believe you can't hear difference then you most likely won't, but if you believe in double blind abx...- hiisinux
- Post #32
- Forum: Sound Science
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Concerns HD800
btw, negative reviews of multiple headphones done by one person is much better than thousand praising ones... "guess why?" i spent few years for search of "Good enough" headphone for me... did listen wide variety of different phones and then did read reviews and their "bad characteristics"...- hiisinux
- Post #125
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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DT990 sound better than DT990pro?
Actually i wouldnt take too seriously kemar/HATS measurement, they dont have ear canal modeling, also to bring things more intresting theres over 20db differences individually in hrtf+earcanal responses so even one would make "Perfect" headphone it's just perfect for some people. for more...- hiisinux
- Post #17
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Soundstaging question
Most annoying thing with high quality headphones or speakers , is that poorly mixed recordings have acoustic effects like down-up axis or back&forth, and those effects are really less noticeable with worse quality speakers/headphones (aka less accurate to actual reproduction what's been...- hiisinux
- Post #10
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Headphones with paper drivers?
Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi The Denons use microfibre, although I'm not sure what material. They have some very nice square wave responses in the new HR graphs - the best in fact. Well dunno who smart ass did figure to use square wave response test in speakers, but its...- hiisinux
- Post #21
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"Closed phone honk"
i suggest some audiologist book if you truly want to know about hearing, not smoking/shrooms- hiisinux
- Post #9
- Forum: Sound Science
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The science of science.
mbriant send me nice private ignorance post: Quote: Please respect our No Religion/Politics rule. Somehow you've turned the AUDIO science sound forum into a religious discussion. Thank you. Please remove whole thread its politics&religion related anyways as demarcation problem is...- hiisinux
- Post #32
- Forum: Sound Science
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Denon AH-D7000
Quote: Originally Posted by digger945 As for magnesium frames, I have first hand experience with the W5000's and all I can say is it's about as cheap as you can possibly design, a popsicle stick is more robust!!! I certainly hope that other manufacturers do better than Audio Technica...- hiisinux
- Post #209
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Review: ZERO 24 BIT/192KHz DAC/Headphone Amp/Pre-Amp
Hum i could not find any Measurements of this dac with quick googling. Anyone has done rmaa to this dac? esp intrested in headphones out dealing 33 ohm-600ohm loads.- hiisinux
- Post #6,850
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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Mil. Spec headphones?
Mono-only reason is simple it does not cause listening fatigue in headset's like stereo. and balanced amplification is simply to minimize interference its commonly used in studios&telephony systems.- hiisinux
- Post #8
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Grail Quest - in search of beautiful flat and balanced R10,E9,K1000,G1K,D5K,W5K ???
People often forget in this Forum of great subjectivity objective reality. Circumaural headphones have great problems with different ear-shapes etc causing unequal reproduction (Acoustic impedance chances due these "variables" causing possibly even sharp spikes that are nearly impossible to...- hiisinux
- Post #15
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ath-w5000 wet earpads (shiver)
hmm actually its most likely to be silicone gel (when you think about it more it makes sense)- hiisinux
- Post #8
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ath-w5000 wet earpads (shiver)
It's black and i think i wont taste it... well you can eat shoe polishing paste if you want but i dont think its ment for eating.- hiisinux
- Post #7
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ath-w5000 wet earpads (shiver)
These headphones seem to get so much time in my head that earpads suck all sweat etc inside them and theyr "wet" seams push water+coloring matter from stitching seams and well it stains skin... should i just buy few spare pads that i swap on daily basis and leave other ones to dry (applying...- hiisinux
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Decibels, distortion, amplifiers and golden ears
Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi Getting back to the point, I think DBT is not ideal in all circumstances. For example, it takes me about 3 weeks of relaxed listening to get an idea of the the subtler qualities of a particular amp. Addendum: I disagree that the distortion of...- hiisinux
- Post #434
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Decibels, distortion, amplifiers and golden ears
Quote: Originally Posted by markl There absolutely are 100% concrete, measurable, indisputable reasons why a B-52 sounds different than a Tomahawk. The problem, as we've seen 100 times over on this site, is that skeptics will not accept them, or will tell us that these differences are...- hiisinux
- Post #348
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What is likable about the W5000?
Quote: Originally Posted by granodemostasa I recently spent a day with the w5000s.... with my rig and all... I still can't figure out what makes them so famous around here. fit issues?- hiisinux
- Post #15
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What is likable about the W5000?
creation of hifi-land: God invented BASS and treble and satan himself made best effort he could and placed midrange in between them?- hiisinux
- Post #7
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Decibels, distortion, amplifiers and golden ears
haha oo i love vinyltheripper looks like you guys got this OCPD... +he gave "objective" data as argument and you start nit-picking his "ways of communication etc etc.." aka mis-argumenting the point...- hiisinux
- Post #193
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Decibels, distortion, amplifiers and golden ears
now did anyone read my posting... or do any of you understand what histronic means? (thevinylripper said in some posting about being histronic) you brainiacs just give him what he "seeks" without even knowing it by usually with implying hes stupid/idiot.- hiisinux
- Post #180
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Decibels, distortion, amplifiers and golden ears
all right you cant understand what hes saying so just ATTACK! couz you cant understand him and misconfuse your self-more... and eventually just think he was idiot!- hiisinux
- Post #149
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Headphones with the best resolutions?
i have feeling this dude is dead serious... http://www.linkwitzlab.com/reference_earphones.htm- hiisinux
- Post #13
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