averydonovan
Headphoneus Supremus
I just realized today that I passed the 5-year mark on this forum. Wow have things changed since I got here, both here and for me.
When I started here I was asking about the Sony V6 which seemed obscenely expensive to me at the time. And it was still a somewhat respected pair of cans back then. Within 2 years I got a pretty decent system together and up until earlier this year I was working on a good portable system.
Now I've had my same amp and cans for over 3 years, had my turntable for 2, and my former primary DAP for over a year. Yet my amp and turntable are still boxed up after my latest move (actually the turntable was boxed up 8 months ago), I use my phone and sealed earbuds as a DAP, and my headphones are connected directly to my computer. Yet I enjoy listening to music as much as I ever did, just that it's the music itself I value over the sound quality. Certainly I have a minimum expectation of sound quality except that it's more that I don't want the sound to be offensive, not necessarily that I am in audio bliss.
When I joined this place there were just over 3000 members and I think less than 100,000 posts. The HeadRoom sponsor forum was the only sponsor forum, and Todd was doing TTVJ as a side project while working for HeadRoom. HeadRoom and Meier Audio were the major headphone amp manufacturers. IEM meant Etymotic. Computer audio was barely discussed. The Member's Lounge contained topics that would now earn a swift negative reaction from moderators. You barely had to scroll to see the complete list of forums. Kelly made Head-Fi records by racking up over 5000 posts within about a year. Nobody would touch that one for a while.
Now there are nearly 33x the posts and 20x the number of members as back then. The TTVJ forum is now the single longest running sponsor forum on here. HeadRoom and Meier Audio have a large number of competitors in the headphone amp space, both above and below their target markets. IEM makes one think of Shure or Ultimate Ears first, and then remembering Etymotic makes them too. The computer audio forum has 75% of the posts of the dedicated sources forum, despite being a few years newer. The Member's Lounge went through a cleanup phase to match what is allowed in the general topics are of other large forums. And wow do I have to scroll through that list of forums. Not to mention 53 posters have more posts than kelly, the top poster having 4x the number of posts he did.
So there's 5 years in a few paragraphs
When I started here I was asking about the Sony V6 which seemed obscenely expensive to me at the time. And it was still a somewhat respected pair of cans back then. Within 2 years I got a pretty decent system together and up until earlier this year I was working on a good portable system.
Now I've had my same amp and cans for over 3 years, had my turntable for 2, and my former primary DAP for over a year. Yet my amp and turntable are still boxed up after my latest move (actually the turntable was boxed up 8 months ago), I use my phone and sealed earbuds as a DAP, and my headphones are connected directly to my computer. Yet I enjoy listening to music as much as I ever did, just that it's the music itself I value over the sound quality. Certainly I have a minimum expectation of sound quality except that it's more that I don't want the sound to be offensive, not necessarily that I am in audio bliss.
When I joined this place there were just over 3000 members and I think less than 100,000 posts. The HeadRoom sponsor forum was the only sponsor forum, and Todd was doing TTVJ as a side project while working for HeadRoom. HeadRoom and Meier Audio were the major headphone amp manufacturers. IEM meant Etymotic. Computer audio was barely discussed. The Member's Lounge contained topics that would now earn a swift negative reaction from moderators. You barely had to scroll to see the complete list of forums. Kelly made Head-Fi records by racking up over 5000 posts within about a year. Nobody would touch that one for a while.
Now there are nearly 33x the posts and 20x the number of members as back then. The TTVJ forum is now the single longest running sponsor forum on here. HeadRoom and Meier Audio have a large number of competitors in the headphone amp space, both above and below their target markets. IEM makes one think of Shure or Ultimate Ears first, and then remembering Etymotic makes them too. The computer audio forum has 75% of the posts of the dedicated sources forum, despite being a few years newer. The Member's Lounge went through a cleanup phase to match what is allowed in the general topics are of other large forums. And wow do I have to scroll through that list of forums. Not to mention 53 posters have more posts than kelly, the top poster having 4x the number of posts he did.
So there's 5 years in a few paragraphs
