[luoo1984]

HI, I have a ATH-W5000. It is a beautiful headphone. I find 'Raffinato' on the ATH-W5000 surface.

Is any english-speaker can tell me what this word means? I can not find its' meaning in Oxford Dictionary. Is it have some special meaning in English ?

 

[gallardo88]

It's Italian for "refined".

hope that helps....my knowledge of italian always comes in handy

lol

 

[QQQ]

It's a poetic name for them...

 

[luoo1984]

Italian..........

nice time ATH should try French or Spain ....

 

[hew]

What's wrong with Italian? My Raffinato is heavenly with Italian amp. Italians seems to have a lock on musically refined instruments and components, imo.

 

[_roland]

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Originally Posted by hew /img/forum/go_quote.gif What's wrong with Italian? My Raffinato is heavenly with Italian amp. Italians seems to have a lock on musically refined instruments and components, imo.

germans too.. but german isn't as pretty

 

[Lad27]

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Originally Posted by _roland /img/forum/go_quote.gif germans too.. but german isn't as pretty

Yeah it would be Gewahlt (letter a with two dots above it - umlaut).
Can you imagine THAT written on these beautiful cans?

That would sound more like name of German industrial metal band.

 

[Saso]

Actually it is more like "veredelt" or "verfeinert" in German.

We also have some nice words here in the middle of Europe.

 

[wovenhand]

it's italian for "crappy fit".

 

[LostOne.TR]

^ ouch.
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Verb raffinato m (f raffinata, m plural raffinati, f plural raffinate) 1. Past participle of raffinare. [edit] Adjective raffinato m (f raffinata, m plural raffinati, f plural raffinate) 1. refined 2. polished, sophisticated 3. subtle [edit] Noun raffinato m. (plural raffinati) 1. A refined person

from wiktionary

 

[xenithon]

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it's italian for "crappy fit".

Quote of the week

 

[piotr z]

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Originally Posted by wovenhand /img/forum/go_quote.gif it's italian for "crappy fit".

well - sad but true - they are even a bit to large for me - and having said that - I went karting last week - biggest helmet they had I hardly managed to squize onto my head !!!! - that tells all the story

 

[will75]

Hmm. I don't necessarily have a large head and they fit me well.

You never know I guess.

 

[wovenhand]

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Originally Posted by xenithon /img/forum/go_quote.gif Quote of the week

Well thank you!

 

[piotr z]

try to tilt them 20-30 deg forward in dirction into forehead and pres them at the point where arc and wings supports connect - they even for me sound fuller when I do this - this arc is simply wrong design - should have much more clamping force and exit the connexion point at different angle