[CLum]

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Originally Posted by angler31337 They really need to rethink the design of that survey. Those likert scales are absolutely awful. By the way, I just decreased everyone else's probability of winning by 1/(n*(n+1)). Sorry. -Angler

Totally agree with the design of the survey.
1 = strongly agree
5 = strongly disagree
I wonder if that was a typo.

 

[incognitoedleon]

I gave it a shot. I'm surprised that many of the links on the Sennheiser site simply don't work.

 

[angler31337]

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Originally Posted by CLum Totally agree with the design of the survey. 1 = strongly agree 5 = strongly disagree I wonder if that was a typo.

No, it was not a typo. My complaint is that they don't provide an option for non-response. A likert scale without a non-response option is not a pretty creature.

Suppose a respondent has no idea what one of the questions is asking. What do we think he/she will do? We can answer this question with one of two assumptions:

(1) Respondents select an option randomly. Well in this case, your proportions will remain consistent and unbiased, but you are needlessly inflating your variances. Since pushing that variance down is the expensive part of surveying, you now look quite the fool.

(2) Respondents stochastically select an option, with the expectation that additional weight is being placed on one or more of those options. In this case, your proportions will remain consistent, but will generally be biased high or low depending on the question. Given the respondents, questions, and incentives surrounding this survey, I suspect that an acquiescence effect will biased the results of these scales upward, if case (2) is presumed to hold.

The solution to this mess is simple: make a non-response option.

-Angler

(Same amazingly boring taste, now with half the fat!)

 

[Comfy]

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Originally Posted by LFF Cool. Probably won't win. I said "Bring back the Orpheus and offer student discounts." Sounds counter-intuitive.

That was cool...

"5000$ for the general public, 3000$ for students."

 

[Anarchy965]

I said: Bring back the Orpheus as the HD 700 and make a PC headset version of the HD-25-SP's. (yeah I know they make the HMD 25-XQ but its too expensive and its not a normal PC headset.)

 

[Chinchy]

Don't worry, if I win the HD-595 I'll sell it cheap here.

OH yeah, and my gripe was that they don't even have a link to the HD-650 unless you go from the pricing overview... That's their (current) flagship!

 

[enjoi_rootbeer]

done. thanks! 5mins of my time for some 595s, why not?

 

[gsteinb88]

No idea what i will do if i win, as i own a starquad-recabled pair of hd595's already. I guess i will sell them cheap on here, in all likelihood. Unless the little capitalist in me screams, and i have to go to ebay. But that doesnt happen very often.
-g

 

[slwiser]

Believe me this is evil. It is evil because this is exactly what got me into headfi back in 2001. Sennheiser had this survey and they were giving away something called a HD495. Well I took the survery and won a HD495. I still have it.

This is like giving a drug to kids. This kind of stuff should be illegal.

 

[tailes151]

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Originally Posted by CLum Totally agree with the design of the survey. 1 = strongly agree 5 = strongly disagree I wonder if that was a typo.

Well, there goes my chances of winning. I gave them mainly 5's.

 

[umlaut]

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I think their survey got the 1's and 5's mixed up between pages... true?

1) site works poorly in Mac Firefox
2) no comment on 595 Ohms differences
3) dealer locator doesn't help since everyone has PX100s and no one has 650s
4) looks like the 595 image is a 3D rendering instead of a real photo

think I left one out...

 

[vagarach]

I think all their pics are renderings on the site