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how to discuss, if there are no facts to discuss in the first place ?
Indeed. However, there is also the relevance of facts to a discussion as well. A very good example is the common statement that digital "is just ones and zeros" which, on one level is true, but on another is not and ignores a great deal of important, valid information about electronic signal transmission. It's human nature to want to have answers and "truth" simplified and not make the effort to expand one's understanding, which doesn't work well with audio, which is too complicated. A person has to go in the other extreme and just "follow one's ears" otherwise.
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Well, he'll surely need superhuman powers to overcome all the hype.
He is responsible for his own degree of dishonesty and hype now, which destroyed any good his designs might do.
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3. Anyone who needs proof that the high-end in headphones is largely about the new-and-novel need only ask themselves this - when was the last thread about the PS1K / GS1K in High End Audio ? Old news, right ? Who wants to talk about 4-year old headphones when there is so much new and sexy product out there - I get that - but contrast that with people who keep the same speakers for years, if not decades ....
It's the same in any industry. However, having been here before the HD-800s, Hifiman and Audeze when the ED9s were considered TOTL, I can say that there has definitely been an improvement in headphone quality, with the smaller manufacturers seriously challenging the bigger ones, both subjectively and measurably. If anything, claims that various new headphones were only FOTM were written....many months ago. Much of the discussion recently has been about what is wrong with the headphones, almost more so than what is right. Despite (ahem!) claims about sponsors and censorship, both Sennheiser and Audeze have been absolutely hammered in the forums over the past year. The discussion about the LCD-3s for the last 20 or so pages, if not many more before that, have been about whether it is safe to buy a pair.