razer
500+ Head-Fier
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I vividly remembered back then in the summer of 2005, I fell in love with this Headphone affair. Excited and monetarily depreived, I had to say it was the most exciting stage of getting into this hobby. However oxymoronic it may sound; but trying to save up by all means and finally being able to get that CAN you've always been eyeing for was beyond materialistic elation. It wasn't exactly aural bliss as well but more of a sense of pride and acheivement. Sad to say, I had more fun "searching-deciding-saving-buying-waiting" than I had listening.
The internet, or should I say: Heafi, was a haven like place to hang out after school and I'd spend hours reading up on the latest reviews, appreciation threads and the occasional flame baits.
Back then, things were fun! I'm sorry if I made it sound like I was describing the 50s or 60s but hey, BACK THEN (and I mean 4 years ago) it really WAS FUN! Those were the days the HD650's reigned supreme and Japanese headphones were relatively less well received. The Grado RS-1 was a big hit as well so were the Shure E5c's and Ety 4SPABC???(whatever the name is....
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Wham! And soon enough, I got myself a pair'o HD650's. My gawd, were they some helluva sexy pair of cans! Covered in smooth metallic gun-metal-grey that arrived in a beatiful foam padded box, I was squirming with excitement! However, something was wrong I thought to myself. They didn't sound anything they've described on head-fi. The soundscape was veiled and muddy!!
It was only after some headfi'ing and googling that I came across this little equipment of marvel known as the headphone amp. It was then that I realized what i was missing out! So then, I thought to myself: Hey, I had to get one of these! Every headfier's got one and I haven't, I'm definitly missing out on something!
Scrummaging through my closet and that miserable bank account of mine, I came up with enough $$ for a humble PA2V2. (have you guys forgotten about this little black plastic amp?) Within a week, a small brown package arrived at my doorstep from Canada and it wasn't long before I was sitting there tapping my toes, rocking to the music out of this little amp! There WAS an improvement to what I was hearing and that, was money well spent!
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Anyway, this headphone obsession of mine started out something like that (and no, I wouldn't want to waste time describing all the details...and I doubt any of you will want to listen to that crap anyway...) and soon I was spending through the roof every month buying and selling equipments. Never had I imagined myself ending up with a pair of L3000's or purchasing the ridiculously expensive desktop multimedia speakers, the "MC15's" with an initial budget of only $300.
Headfi-ism evolved from the search of better sound to soely buying equipments in bid to satisfy that insatiable hunger in me. I just had to BUY BUY BUY and got happier each time I filled that closet of mine with another box from AKG/Sennheiser/Grado/etc.......Things were starting to go awry....
Yet, coincidental it may sound, the mandatory conscription into military service came and soon enough, I was ferried off for my basic military training in an outlying island. That jolly well kept me away from this head-fi madness! Two years of camouflage-green-rifles-grenades passed and I was back into the civilian world. It was then that I realized how the two years have smelted my passion and interest in Audio. I no longer felt like a kid in a Candy store when I accompanied my friends down to our Local Headphone Shop nor was I yearning for the weekly Friday meets anymore.
I felt empty and wasted, and each time I looked at the stacks of boxes of unused and unlistened headphones, a stranged sense of regret and anger erupted within me. "Angry" for not being able to retain the passion and love; "Regret" for spending that ridiculous amout of money that could have been of better use to me...
And so the idea of selling my stash has popped up in my head yet each time I decided to post a FS thread on head-fi, I will unknowingly end up with my pinkie on the Backspace button. So I began to wonder, just what exactly is it that's holding me back from selling them? Is it because deep down inside me, there is that last sliver of hope? That last bit of enthusiasm? Or might it be a form of emotional attachment since every headphone that I laid my hands upon had an interesting story to it? Its annoying that I myself am not able to decipher such mixed feelings and be decisive enough to do the right thing.
As I'm typing this message, I'm feeling tired and worn out; sick of this headphone obsession but then again unwilling to let go. Ironically, it is also during this time that I've spent alot listening to music and trying out new releases....How perplexing!
The Worn Out Head-Fi'er
Razer.
The internet, or should I say: Heafi, was a haven like place to hang out after school and I'd spend hours reading up on the latest reviews, appreciation threads and the occasional flame baits.
Wham! And soon enough, I got myself a pair'o HD650's. My gawd, were they some helluva sexy pair of cans! Covered in smooth metallic gun-metal-grey that arrived in a beatiful foam padded box, I was squirming with excitement! However, something was wrong I thought to myself. They didn't sound anything they've described on head-fi. The soundscape was veiled and muddy!!
It was only after some headfi'ing and googling that I came across this little equipment of marvel known as the headphone amp. It was then that I realized what i was missing out! So then, I thought to myself: Hey, I had to get one of these! Every headfier's got one and I haven't, I'm definitly missing out on something!
Scrummaging through my closet and that miserable bank account of mine, I came up with enough $$ for a humble PA2V2. (have you guys forgotten about this little black plastic amp?) Within a week, a small brown package arrived at my doorstep from Canada and it wasn't long before I was sitting there tapping my toes, rocking to the music out of this little amp! There WAS an improvement to what I was hearing and that, was money well spent!
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Anyway, this headphone obsession of mine started out something like that (and no, I wouldn't want to waste time describing all the details...and I doubt any of you will want to listen to that crap anyway...) and soon I was spending through the roof every month buying and selling equipments. Never had I imagined myself ending up with a pair of L3000's or purchasing the ridiculously expensive desktop multimedia speakers, the "MC15's" with an initial budget of only $300.
Yet, coincidental it may sound, the mandatory conscription into military service came and soon enough, I was ferried off for my basic military training in an outlying island. That jolly well kept me away from this head-fi madness! Two years of camouflage-green-rifles-grenades passed and I was back into the civilian world. It was then that I realized how the two years have smelted my passion and interest in Audio. I no longer felt like a kid in a Candy store when I accompanied my friends down to our Local Headphone Shop nor was I yearning for the weekly Friday meets anymore.
I felt empty and wasted, and each time I looked at the stacks of boxes of unused and unlistened headphones, a stranged sense of regret and anger erupted within me. "Angry" for not being able to retain the passion and love; "Regret" for spending that ridiculous amout of money that could have been of better use to me...
And so the idea of selling my stash has popped up in my head yet each time I decided to post a FS thread on head-fi, I will unknowingly end up with my pinkie on the Backspace button. So I began to wonder, just what exactly is it that's holding me back from selling them? Is it because deep down inside me, there is that last sliver of hope? That last bit of enthusiasm? Or might it be a form of emotional attachment since every headphone that I laid my hands upon had an interesting story to it? Its annoying that I myself am not able to decipher such mixed feelings and be decisive enough to do the right thing.
As I'm typing this message, I'm feeling tired and worn out; sick of this headphone obsession but then again unwilling to let go. Ironically, it is also during this time that I've spent alot listening to music and trying out new releases....How perplexing!
The Worn Out Head-Fi'er
Razer.
