Steve999
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Dear head-fiers --
I am sorry to introduce such a grave and sorrowful topic to this venerable forum. As we all know, there has been an unsettling, but very positive, change in paradigm for headphone evaluation around the world.
After an epic battle, which appears to have cost one ardent participant his head-fi standing, it was determined that headroom is not trying to take over the world with its evil smoothed normalized frequency response curves (though I still say they're goofy), and that the Sennhesiser HD 590 and 600 present an inevitably startling and troubling contrast that moves us from the staid conversation of reason to the deepest passions we know.
And now the epic battle is joined as to whether Bose is evil, and Magicthyse has carried the day against the old school (personified by the brilliant but dogmatic MacDef), Bose is not evil, just as headroom is not evil. And already one head-fier has called the HD 600 the Bose of the headphone world. People are thinking, people are questioning the old theories.
And the paradigm shift has evolved to the aesthetic front, and Magicthyse has prevailed again, against his antimatter nemesis MacDef, headphone looks do matter, and in view of this some believe that the Audio Technica AT 100W or whatever the model number is may be the greatest headphone buy on earth, needing no amp and whatnot, by implication calling into doubt the supremacy of the HD 600.
And now I am faced with my own moral dilemma. I am on my second pair of Sony V6s. (I fried my first pair blasting my speakers with the V6s plugged into the headphone jack of the receiver.) On the first pair, I had removed the famous "for digital" stickers. On one level, these stickers are superficial, but I suspect a deeper meaning, tying into the issues of headroom and the HD 600s and the AT100s and Bose and aesthetics, but I have yet to work out the grand theory explaining what is likely a simple but astonishing theory as to the underlying phenomena guiding all of these seemingly unrelated but deeply moving phenomena.
Should I take the "for digital" stickers off of my Sony V6s? Will they sound better that way? Will I feel better about them that way? Does anyone have personal experience with this? Will I be deprived of some much deeper metaphysical insight and experience if I remove the stickers?
I am sorry to introduce such a grave and sorrowful topic to this venerable forum. As we all know, there has been an unsettling, but very positive, change in paradigm for headphone evaluation around the world.
After an epic battle, which appears to have cost one ardent participant his head-fi standing, it was determined that headroom is not trying to take over the world with its evil smoothed normalized frequency response curves (though I still say they're goofy), and that the Sennhesiser HD 590 and 600 present an inevitably startling and troubling contrast that moves us from the staid conversation of reason to the deepest passions we know.
And now the epic battle is joined as to whether Bose is evil, and Magicthyse has carried the day against the old school (personified by the brilliant but dogmatic MacDef), Bose is not evil, just as headroom is not evil. And already one head-fier has called the HD 600 the Bose of the headphone world. People are thinking, people are questioning the old theories.
And the paradigm shift has evolved to the aesthetic front, and Magicthyse has prevailed again, against his antimatter nemesis MacDef, headphone looks do matter, and in view of this some believe that the Audio Technica AT 100W or whatever the model number is may be the greatest headphone buy on earth, needing no amp and whatnot, by implication calling into doubt the supremacy of the HD 600.
And now I am faced with my own moral dilemma. I am on my second pair of Sony V6s. (I fried my first pair blasting my speakers with the V6s plugged into the headphone jack of the receiver.) On the first pair, I had removed the famous "for digital" stickers. On one level, these stickers are superficial, but I suspect a deeper meaning, tying into the issues of headroom and the HD 600s and the AT100s and Bose and aesthetics, but I have yet to work out the grand theory explaining what is likely a simple but astonishing theory as to the underlying phenomena guiding all of these seemingly unrelated but deeply moving phenomena.
Should I take the "for digital" stickers off of my Sony V6s? Will they sound better that way? Will I feel better about them that way? Does anyone have personal experience with this? Will I be deprived of some much deeper metaphysical insight and experience if I remove the stickers?