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It's not like Jude is going to write a bad review about them. I'm not sure what you guys are so excited for.
Someone posted a comment in response to one of the
Head-Fi TV episodes that said...
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AlbzAbert said:
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Is it just me or does jude practically recommend every single set of headphones he comes across?
...to which I responded:
That would suggest that the headphones I discuss in the videos or forums represent every headphone I come across. More headphones and other audio gear come through here than I could ever cover in the videos--*far* more. Different things motivate different people; but what motivates me to step in front of the camera more than anything is sharing my feelings about (and experiences with) products I think sound great, products that excite me.
Anyone who has been to my office and home knows that there is far more gear around than I'm likely ever to be able to review.
FAR more. What I do decide to talk or type about is what I listen to or use that interests me, and/or what I like or am excited about. The things I don't much care for don't usually get used enough for me to have much to say about them.
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I have grave reservations about them given how the presenter in the YouTube video brought to attention in the FR graph the bass, lower mids, and extended treble while conveniently ignoring that upper mid / lower treble mess.
I've spent
far more time with the SRH1840 than the SRH1440, and I did see the Shure graphs you're talking about (the ones shown in Shure's Tokyo presentation).
Measurements vary from measurer to measurer. Other measurements that Shure might produce for other headphones (using their gear and methodology) wouldn't look like Tyll's which don't look like yours which don't look like others I've seen from other manufacturers. Some manufacturers have shared with me their measurements of their products and their measurements of their competitors' products, and they also don't look like each other's, or Tyll's, or yours and probably not Shure's.
In other words, it's hard (for me anyway) to take Shure's measurements, compare them to yours or Tyll's and extrapolate much. There's greater value, of course, in comparing Tyll's to Tyll's (or yours to yours) for various headphones--for me anyway. The measurement instruments may be different from measurer to measurer, as may be the environment and, of course, the methodologies.
That said, the SRH1840 has more treble than neutral, but doesn't sound, to my ears, the way their graphs look (with how graphs look to me being established primarily by HeadRoom's graphs and Tyll's graphs (Tyll also does HeadRoom's graphs).
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I think Jude just get's a kick out of watching us squirm. It's been almost a month since the initial post, and we've reached 33 pages filled with, for the most part, meaningless bickering and wild speculation.
Just picture him, sitting in his comfy chair, 1840s on his head, listening to whatever genre the 1840s excel at portraying, hitting F5 on this bloody thread and just cackling...... Cackling the night away.
LOL. No, that's not it at all. There was CanJam @ RMAF, then Tokyo, then the
Gift Guide, and all of that combined with the last quarter of the year and the holidays, which is always the busiest time of year for me, at work and at home--and now CES is pretty much here. Around the holiday, I took some
much needed time away from computers and the web, to be with my family and friends.
I
will say more about the SRH1840 (and maybe the SRH1440) before I leave for CES.
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The UK Shure site shows the SRH1840 @ £ 598.80
http://www.shure.co.uk/products/headphones/srh1840
Expect U.S. pricing to be as follows (accompanied by the existing Shure over-ear line prices for the sake of comparison):
- $699 for SRH1840
- $399 for SRH1440
- $299 for SRH940
- $199 for SRH840
- $99 for SRH440
- $59 for SRH240