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Magik32, it's a good experience experiencing high quality music listening for the first time isn't it. Glad you found it.
True... But technically Head-Fi doesn't intentionally support other companies like Westone and Shure, just to name a few. Head-Fi isn't a real supporter in any company really, the companies just come to Head-Fi for Ads and Sponsorships. And with that said, Head-Fi isn't against Beats, Bose, and Soul. It's more of the users being against some companies like Beats; NOT Head-Fi itself. And new members are always good. So what if the new members ask questions like "Are the Souls any good?". Everyones been through that stage and I find myself asking the same questions about other products like AKG for example. There's no difference when someone asks a question like "Are Beats good?" or "Are AKGs good?". Both the same questions and I find it unfair that the Beats question is hated so much by some members in the community. If you don't like seeing it, don't bother looking at it because it's not going to make a difference either way. There will always be questions and always people willing to answer those questions. It's a free forum.
There's a reason why I've mostly stopped posting on the forums outside of my reviews.
I guess all you need is several pair of moderately priced headphones and a love for Beats to be deemed an audiophile.
I was thinking the same thing. I'd be reluctant to call myself an audiophile and (having heard them) think the Beats are abysmal.
Call me old school, but if you're going to write an article about headphones in one of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world, isn't there some sense of responsibility to properly inform your audience, and by that I mean to apply a discerning eye to the marketing, rather than to regurgitate what "some guy" said he likes, and mention a 5 star review on apple's website?
I suppose this is progress, but I don't think it's unreasonable to have reasonably high expectations of a NYT piece.
It is great that the NY Times has written an article about our great headphone/headfi community; however, do we really need to be validated by the NY Times???? We are who we are and we have existed as the Headfi community long before the NY Times article was written. We need to keep our identity. Will the NY Times make a donation $ to Headfi.org? Will the NY Times reduce it's advertising rates so that we can advertise our great yearly event- CanJam at RMAF? The NY Times is using us? It doesn't pay us to use our name as if we were a copyright or a trademark. The question remains as to the NY Times article does anything for us at all. I think that it does nothing but hype and promote with little substance on the real quality of those good headphone listeners and companies. Really now- Beats and Bose!
Hey guys,
The point of the article was not to highlight the world's best headphones, but to point out the fact that headphones are becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. The writer, Jennifer Conlin, is a travel & style freelancer -- and a very nice woman IRL -- so you would expect her to single out "lifestyle" brands.
But regarding the whole "google headphones as research", that's the direction the entire industry has gone. It's not just the NYT.
Also, chances are the NYT was sent free headphones to review from some of the companies mentioned, so she might have just been going off what she saw lying around the office. This is usually the case any time you see a "gift guide" or "top 10 new products" type article, the list is populated by free samples that were given to the writers.
This would have been a relevant article, by your description, had she written it a few years ago when the Beats hype was at it's peak.
Dude, I don't think the beats hype has peaked at all...
http://www.freshnessmag.com/2011/11/02/beats-by-dr-dre-the-beats-store-nyc-opens-today/