markl
Hangin' with the monkeys.
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So the freebie earbuds that came with your portable mp3 player will outshine the HD600 in some areas? I doubt it. Sure, all headphones are "colored" in the sense that every time you stick something in the signal path it changes the sound, can't deny that. But you can deduce whether one phone is less colored than another. I bet if you asked 100 people at random whether the R10s or the HD600 sounded more "natural", at least 80 would pick the R10. That's not to discount/dismiss the 20 people who liked the HD600 better, but it is a good way to make generalizations about the R10s seeming to be more natural to more people. Therefore, we can conclude with more certainty that the R10s are indeed "less colored" than the HD600 to *most* people.
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I see, so this is about money.
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You make it sound like you're taking these headphones to another planet and asking aliens whether the sound of piano is more realistic on this headphone than that one. Well, if they've never heard a piano, how could they tell you? We don't live in a vacuum where the only way to hear sound is through headphones. We have some frame of reference for what things sound like, and we are perfectly capable of judging whether phone A or phone B sounds more like life. If you get 80 people out of 100 saying the same thing about one headphone, chances are you can extrapolate how person number 101 will likely feel about it.
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Ha ha ha ha. You are one bitter dude!
You want to believe that all headphone preferences are simply a matter of taste, that absolute performance is identical in all headphones and it's just a matter of choosing the coloration you like best, and that's your right. I don't agree. Have you even heard an R10?
Mark
Because it's impossible, that's why. Headphones are all sonically 'shaped' whether you like it or not. All headphones are compromised. One will outshine another in one particular area but not in all. |
So the freebie earbuds that came with your portable mp3 player will outshine the HD600 in some areas? I doubt it. Sure, all headphones are "colored" in the sense that every time you stick something in the signal path it changes the sound, can't deny that. But you can deduce whether one phone is less colored than another. I bet if you asked 100 people at random whether the R10s or the HD600 sounded more "natural", at least 80 would pick the R10. That's not to discount/dismiss the 20 people who liked the HD600 better, but it is a good way to make generalizations about the R10s seeming to be more natural to more people. Therefore, we can conclude with more certainty that the R10s are indeed "less colored" than the HD600 to *most* people.
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Many people will claim that their headphones are less colored than R10 or whatever because they prefer the sound of theirs. If they believe that their phones sound more like the real thing, then that's their most uncolored headphone, especailly if they paid a handsome amount of money for them. Nobody is going to say they bought a $5000 headphone and they suck, just like nobody is going to admit they have 3 inche. |
I see, so this is about money.
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How could you prove such a thing anyway? You can't measure coloration or lack of it. |
You make it sound like you're taking these headphones to another planet and asking aliens whether the sound of piano is more realistic on this headphone than that one. Well, if they've never heard a piano, how could they tell you? We don't live in a vacuum where the only way to hear sound is through headphones. We have some frame of reference for what things sound like, and we are perfectly capable of judging whether phone A or phone B sounds more like life. If you get 80 people out of 100 saying the same thing about one headphone, chances are you can extrapolate how person number 101 will likely feel about it.
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Someday someone will market a $6000 dynamic headphone and some will listen to it and claim that they were transported to another planet, but in reality they will still be here on Earth, just travelling down a different road that inevitably leads to the same destination: nowhere. |
Ha ha ha ha. You are one bitter dude!
Mark