[Anathallo]

Not to derail the thread (although it is way off topic), but I find sound triggers the most memories for me.  Touch is probably second....... Smell does next to nothing.
 
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FWIW, hearing is the worst sense tied to human memory (with smell being the strongest...go figure). When I do my comparative reviews I first familiarize myself with the gear for a week or so and then never spend more than a few seconds switching between both.
 
Just my two cents...oh and my 40 year old ears go up to 20kHz when I had them tested a few months back.

 

 

 

[christophrowley]

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Not to derail the thread (although it is way off topic), but I find sound triggers the most memories for me.  Touch is probably second....... Smell does next to nothing.
 

So the smell of your mother's cooking, freshly cut grass, sea salt etc aren't evocative for you? I'm not convinced. 

 

[Anathallo]

Actually no, those types of smells bring no memories to surface for me, whereas certain songs or even just sounds in general (like warming up your lips on a brass mouthpiece or the revving of the lawnmover starting up, or the sizzle of my mom's fried chicken recipe) bring vivid memories to light. Might have something to do with the fact that my sense of smell (and as a result taste) aren't the best

.  Maybe my brain's replaced all that missing data with aural triggers

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So the smell of your mother's cooking, freshly cut grass, sea salt etc aren't evocative for you? I'm not convinced. 

 

 

[Saintly]

Haha that's pretty crazy.  I think smell might actually invoke more memories in me than sounds do.

 

[christophrowley]

That makes sense. It isn't so much specific memories that are stimulated by smells for me, more how I felt at the time. Music, on the other hand, tends to be linked to a time/place but isn't quite as instinctive. Everyone's different, I guess. 

 

[mcee]

Just got news from my dealer.
 
Delivery been pushed back to at least April, they are expecting probably May... 

 

[MuppetFace]

I love the way certain headphones smell. The Audez'e LCD-2 rev. 1 and Shure SRH1840 are my favorites.
 
The former has a soothing wood and leather smell. The latter has a smell that reminds me of the Natural Science Museum and consequently portions of my childhood.

 

[jerg]

Your olfactory system in your brain is the only sensory system that feeds directly into your amygdala without going through the thalamus first, which means in theory it's the most emotion-triggering sensory input.

 

[Jodet]

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Just got news from my dealer.
 
Delivery been pushed back to at least April, they are expecting probably May... 

Any idea why?   Last minute tuning perhaps? 
 

 

[mcee]

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Any idea why?   Last minute tuning perhaps? 
 

I tried to ask my dealer the reasons why they keep getting pushed back, and they couldn't really answer me other than saying 'it's worth the wait...'?! I do hope that Sennheiser is taking the extra time to do the last minute fine tunings though...

 

[GiacomoHoldini]

That's extremely rare for someone of 40 - you are very very very very lucky.

I turn 40 next August, and can hear 20 kHz tone, albeit barely.

 

[Nordwestlicht]

That's nothing!, I'm 30 and I can hear up to 60GHz... I swear...

 
Well I really don't care for the smell of headphones, as long as it does not smell like the K550 fresh out of the box...

 

[ac500]

I tend to put my headphones on my ears rather than my nose, so typically I don't notice any plastic smell or whatever I could imagine anyone might complain about.

 

[GiacomoHoldini]

That's nothing!, I'm 30 and I can hear up to 60GHz... I swear...

Well I really don't care for the smell of headphones, as long as it does not smell like the K550 fresh out of the box...

Umm...huh?

 

[Nordwestlicht]

That's rather shortsighted, I think.
 
Something that smells that bad as the K550 does, won't stop to evaporate harmful chemicals when in use.
 
That's cheap China crap. Shame on you, AKG!
 
Hopefully the HD700 does not smell that bad... but it's "Made in Ireland", so it will smell of green gras, milk, butter, potatoes and drunken Irishmen... like HD600 and HD650 did before.

 
The HD800 -of cause- smells of Würstchen, Sauerkraut, Volkswagen and Bier.

 
 
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I tend to put my headphones on my ears rather than my nose, so typically I don't notice any plastic smell or whatever I could imagine anyone might complain about.