[doublea71]

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I test leakage buy sealing the headphones on my leg. Call me old fashioned but I'm 18 so that won't work.
 
Try it on your headphones, it works and you get a great idea of leakage.

Try leaking on a hipster 

 

[twizzleraddict]

OP, what did you eventually get??? Damn hipsters...

 

[MartyMcFly]

 
/thread

 

[doublea71]

I hope he wised up and realized that hipsters have no street cred - they are as sheep-like a subculture as any you'll find.
 

 

[A Ham Sandwich]

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I hope he wised up and realized that hipsters have no street cred - they are as sheep-like a subculture as any you'll find.
 

Am I the only one catching the irony here?

 

[BlackstoneJD]

I like to smoke hipsters out of their holes with heavy jazz fusion music from the 1970's. It drives them absolutelty bat**** crazy. I realize that is not helpful but i felt like sharing.

 

[drez]

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How about the B&W p5, beats for hipsters?

 
I would forget these if OP wants a headphone with any semblance of high fidelity audio reporduction.  To me they sound seriously muddy and overpriced.
 
I tried an Audio Technica A900 - Sounded surprisingly good, very clear and articulate midrange save for a sizable peak in the upper mids/lower treble.  Don't look very Indy/hipster to me though.
 
Modified T50's ( eg from MrSpeakers or LFFx) or Thunderpants might do OK.  They look dorky enough.  If I understand hipsters they cant stand anything that looks too mainstream..

 

[doublea71]

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Am I the only one catching the irony here?

The irony being the suggestion that he should just follow somebody else's advice on head-fi of all places, another wellspring of lemming-like behavior? It's not lost on me...

 

[obzilla]

Hipsters will worship anything they think no one else knows about. I wouldn't worry about it, just get something you like, and if they ask, tell them "you've probably never heard of them..."

 

[iZMXi]

AKG-K550.
 
http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/wonderfully-competent-akg-k550-sealed-headphone

 

[doublea71]

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Hipsters will worship anything they think no one else knows about. I wouldn't worry about it, just get something you like, and if they ask, tell them "you've probably never heard of them..."

http://lookatthis****inghipster.tumblr.com/

 

[A Ham Sandwich]

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The irony being the suggestion that he should just follow somebody else's advice on head-fi of all places, another wellspring of lemming-like behavior? It's not lost on me...

 
Nope!  It's even more ironic than that.

 

[doublea71]

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Nope!  It's even more ironic than that.

Well that'd make my head explode.

 

[WhiteCrow]

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Well that'd make my head explode.

I think it's the fact that he sounded like a hipster.

 

[doublea71]

Oh please lump me in with the skinny-jeans sect...I'd feel honored