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Headphoneus Supremus
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If I had thousands of dollars' worth of equipment and I one day realized that they really didn't add much to the listening quality, I'd get rid of them, too.
I wouldn't
If I had thousands of dollars' worth of equipment and I one day realized that they really didn't add much to the listening quality, I'd get rid of them, too.
I wouldn'tI am in this hobby for the fun, knowledge and the gear, not the music, strangely enoughBeing able to tell people that you have such expensive equipment is great fun. It really shows who is ignorant and who is not.
Who cares if you didn't get it right - this test sample poses little challenge to compression algorithms and in effect is a biased test to favourably highlight this particular 128 implementation. A lot of people (including myself) do not listen to this genre of music and that is a disadvantage also.
I refuse to believe anyone can pick the difference unless they did it blind...c'mon, it's only 128 can't be that hard.
I guess my hearing is that bad if someone can successfully blind test this using laptop speakers when it took me 4 hours of trying with thousands of dollars of equipment.
if you have the cash to blow, I suppose that's fine.
For me, I'm happy to spend as long as it improves my own personal listening experience, but nothing further. I don't subscribe to the need of having expensive stuff and letting people know 'bout it, I'm definitely past that. I'm thinking of selling my pool cue and just getting a plain cue. My current one is a tad too flash.
In terms of bit-rates, I just keep lossless for practicality.
As a 16 year old, I don't have to pay any bills etc, so whatever money I get, I spend on audio. The look on my friends faces when I tell them I am getting a pair of headphones (which are AKG K1000 Valhalla recabled from Patrick82) that are worth about $3500 is great. Of course this would be the cost if the Valhalla power cord was purchased new...
As a 16 year old, I don't have to pay any bills etc, so whatever money I get, I spend on audio. The look on my friends faces when I tell them I am getting a pair of headphones (which are AKG K1000 Valhalla recabled from Patrick82) that are worth about $3500 is great. Of course this would be the cost if the Valhalla power cord was purchased new...
Haha, 14-16 has been the worst for meHeaps of stressful school work doesn't help.
Yes and girls are the perfect stress relief...just take this advice... girls fall for charm over looks, everytime. Good looking guys never have any charm - they 're always pretty boys and rely on their looks as their primary weapon. The charming ugly guy will always win...mark my word. Charm, mysterious, innnocent, good or bad - or whatever character you choose to play will always win - you just have to play your character hard and never stray from your image.
I was talking about one night stands. Relationships are over-rated.
Anyway, back on track - I would like to see a test with the best possible 128 encoder - with a sample that will challenge it. Then we can truly understand how far it has come. I'm thinking of a track with an extremely busy section with all sorts of instruments thrown in at once, drums, bass, flutes, guitars, orchestra, percussion - all at once. I doubt 128 will be viewed as highly as this particular test suggests.