Fifinder
Head-Fier
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"Customer review" under an Amazon listing for a pair of headphones that costs three grand:
"after i left the caviar store i got into my golden bugatti to my marble house on the moon i sat down and put these headphones and then from the bass from the speaker my head exploded."
Why the trolling? (I think I know the answer: it's what trolls do.
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Now look: Nobody who spends a few thousand dollars above average on a car catches any guff over it. But a few thousand dollars for great headphones ... let the scoffing begin.
I don't get it.
The $3,000 upgrade to the car buys you leather upholstery and a moon roof, and ten years later it all ends up in a junkyard. By contrast, headphones such as the HiFiMAN HE-1000, and the Stax SR009, and high-end Audezes, Sennheisers, etc., can be enjoyed for decades.
What's more, they are the conduit to something incontrovertibly worthwhile, even profound: they provide an intimate connection to a hundred years of humankind's finest sonic art and most magnificent musical artists. To me, a $3,000-dollar painting, or even a million-dollar one, is just one lovely picture, and that's it. By contrast, even a fraction of that million dollars spent on quality audio affords you front-row access to all the greatest recordings ever made. You are transported to a studio or concert hall where you are face to face, as it were, with Pablo Casals, Muddy Waters, Yo-Yo Ma, or Bob Marley. Great headphones are like that: they let you travel through space and time, over and over -- for a lifetime.
To me, yes, that's easily worth the outlay of a few thousand dollars, even if it means I have to forego the leather seats, or the Cabo San Lucas vacation, or the 60'' plasma TV.
"after i left the caviar store i got into my golden bugatti to my marble house on the moon i sat down and put these headphones and then from the bass from the speaker my head exploded."
Why the trolling? (I think I know the answer: it's what trolls do.
Now look: Nobody who spends a few thousand dollars above average on a car catches any guff over it. But a few thousand dollars for great headphones ... let the scoffing begin.
I don't get it.
The $3,000 upgrade to the car buys you leather upholstery and a moon roof, and ten years later it all ends up in a junkyard. By contrast, headphones such as the HiFiMAN HE-1000, and the Stax SR009, and high-end Audezes, Sennheisers, etc., can be enjoyed for decades.
What's more, they are the conduit to something incontrovertibly worthwhile, even profound: they provide an intimate connection to a hundred years of humankind's finest sonic art and most magnificent musical artists. To me, a $3,000-dollar painting, or even a million-dollar one, is just one lovely picture, and that's it. By contrast, even a fraction of that million dollars spent on quality audio affords you front-row access to all the greatest recordings ever made. You are transported to a studio or concert hall where you are face to face, as it were, with Pablo Casals, Muddy Waters, Yo-Yo Ma, or Bob Marley. Great headphones are like that: they let you travel through space and time, over and over -- for a lifetime.
To me, yes, that's easily worth the outlay of a few thousand dollars, even if it means I have to forego the leather seats, or the Cabo San Lucas vacation, or the 60'' plasma TV.
