Sometimes I think this addiction to sound is a joke. Sometimes I feel like some people here need all that expensive equipment just to enjoy music, which is abit strange. On occasion I feel like some people here look down upon people who listen to music through cheap headphones and consider them inferior. And I dont get this attitude towards EQ'ing either, like do you really think that music is recorded straight onto a CD and left alone? are people even aware of how much EQ has gone into recorded CD's to get it to sound correct. Everthing from snare's to hi-hats and to kicks are EQ'ed to change the sound to the artists preferance, so why get objective when people want to change the EQ on the DAP? Its already been EQ'ed to hell already so why not embrace the option? And I also agree with the thread starter about amps basically being an EQ because it is. All amps add their own sound signiture to a source either it be increasing the base, bumping up the mid-range or high-range. So how comes this is accepted but internal EQ's aren't?
Just like all types of hobies, there's a level of snoberry that exist inside of its community, eg, the fellow with $1000 watch which can work in space see's a young kid with a cheap digital watch and thinks, Ha! look at that teenage bum with his crappy watch! why would anyone use that! Only If I could enlighten him to better quality. But the thing is, Its only a watch, you can see the time perfectly so why do I need a $1000 watch. And to a certain degree I think this happens here alot on Head-fi. Every once in a while you'll get someone mentioning something about how they cant understand why someone would use ibuds. Like there some kind of num-nut for destroying there music, but aren't they enjoying their music? Alot of people need to realise that there the ones who decided to spend hundreds on equipment, there the ones who are indifferant not people with crap equipment.
I just feel that sometimes people need to remember that there was probably a time when they were the ones with stock buds, Heck even I was happy with buds that came with my walkman. I had no desire to upgrade, all that mattered to me was my beautiful music. Even though I have spent hundreds on headphones and equipment, I still never forget that Im taking upon myself to do this. It doesn't make me special or more entitled to appriciate music, it just means that Im an idiot for wasting money when I could hear good music through headphones that cost a quarter less.
Whooo! forgive me for that! it was just on my chest for ages.
