Hi, Skylab.
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Mr. Green, I'm pretty sure the majority of people who have heard the LCD-2 actually did like them
Great. I have no problem with that. I've said in most of my posts - to my ears etc. People have different tastes.
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and that you are in fact in the minority
I am aware. Funnily enough, I think most people I actually know who have heard the headphone agree with me on most counts in spite of our many disagreements (for example I dislike grado models below the RS1)
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But your bit about "people withe better gear than most LCD-2 owners" agreeing with you is kind of duplicitous to the thrust of your argument about your own gear not being the issue, isn't it?
No, it's a preemptive strike against the onslaught of comments that would have come if I had not made an agressive post. And do not pretend it wouldn't have come - it's head-fi. It happens ALL THE TIME. Pointing out that there are people with better gear who agree with me merely raises questions about the validity of the "you need better gear" argument.
"I find the HD650 veiled"
"Thats because you don't have a silver cable"
"I find the K701 has bad bass impact"
"You need a better amp and you need to burn it in for 500 hours"
Maybe these people just don't like the headphone.
I'm not particularly convicted about much, I'm pretty relaxed. I do have a personal vendetta against elitism in audiophile circles, however. I have seen much friendlier folk and things are much better when people are just enjoying music instead of circlejerking over their gear. Meets are a good example of this - I have never seen a bunch of people rave and piss over a piece of kit at meets. Not saying this is the case with the LCD-2, merely an observation about Head-fi overall (the recent M50 and other various flavour of the month phenomena are an excellent example). In fact, I think the LCD-2 is worthy of a lot of praise for the bass alone which is the best I have heard in ah eadphone. At meets, I actually find that we tend to talk about music more than the headphones.
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Please do not presume what I am or not interested in, if "both of you" is referring to me. As to bitter people, that sounds like something coming from within you as I don't see that many bitter people around here. What I do see is a number of people that assist and dialogue and I know from the number of emails that I get, that there are a number of people that enjoy discussing audio and giving mutual help.
I will now turn my ATP to enjoying some more music.
If you like, I'm willing to engage in a lengthy discussion about my gear (some of which I have given away to friends now) if you're actually interested in it. I'm not sure how many headphone boards you attend, but for the most part the culture is very different (worse) at head-fi and one needs to develop a tough skin to cope with it. There are plenty of very nice members on head-fi. I posted about several members who have been very kind in one of those poll threads DavidMahler posted.