Well,...I've got to say that this is
by far the most entertaining thread on this entire site.
88 pages of passionate drama!
When it's time to chill out and relax a little, the pages of this thread are fun,...fun,...fun to browse.
But then again when listening to K Pop you don't need much.. It's all the same anyway
Thus far, this is the only thing I've encountered here that offends me: people bashing one of my favorite specific kinds of music: K-pop (i.e., Korean pop)! I discovered this genre more than two years ago, and added hundreds of K-pop songs to my music collection. The performers include The Wonder Girls, 4 Minute, Super Junior, B2ST, Big Bang, After School, Girls' Generation, T-ara, and many others. I love it! I downloaded most of it from the music sites
Melodishop and
MP3VA. I also have some J-pop (Japanese pop) in my collection, too, especially a lot of songs by Kana Nishino and AKB48 that I got from several places on the Internet as well.
This is in addition to the plethora of Chinese pop (C-pop) and Chinese disco (also called "DJ music" here) that I have in my collection, mostly from various-artist albums I got at a local CD store and then converted to MP3.
Anyway, one of the reasons I personally fit in better here in East Asia, instead of the U.S., is because the happy, sappy, bubbly dance-pop music; disco (i.e., club) music; and boygroup / girlgroup pop music that I've loved so much throughout my life...is
much, much, much more popular
here than in the States. Guys with feminine tastes are a lot more accepted here than in the U.S., as well. I can easily find friends here in Chongqing who share my tastes in music and enjoy listening to it with me, which I couldn't hardly find in the middle of America. Many years ago, I was all alone in my passion for '80s Italo Disco, '90s Eurodance pop, and the music of NKOTB and the Backstreet Boys until moving to China.
This all sounds
phenomenal on
my portable headphone rig!
What do the latest
Beats Studio Wireless and the
Sennheiser HD 650 have in common?
Their headphone drivers bottom out with the beat and go "snap, crackle, pop," like Rice Krispies when using my extreme EQ presets and Cayin C5 portable amp!
And this is without
any audible clipping from the amp or EQ.
Beats can't handle the beat!!!
Last month when I sampled a lot of headphones at my local Hi-Fi headphone shop, the Beats headphones had a sound signature with more midbass and more treble, compared to my beloved V-Moda M-100s, which had more sub-bass and more midrange in the response curve, versus the Beats. The M-100s definitely had better soundstage and detail than the Studio Wireless.
While both headphones have a V-shaped sound (and thus, boosted bass and bright treble), the Beats had a little too much midbass, and their treble was a little too bright and harsh. While this certainly can be corrected with proper EQ'ing, the fact that the Studio Wireless (while plugged into my portable rig)
simply couldn't handle the power of my extreme EQ presets running through an amp...unfortunately disqualifies these headphones from my liking. If a pair of headphones puts out audible driver distortion, or even worse,...if they
bottom out with the beat with my setup, then that is simply unacceptable.
But, of course, if I had to choose between the lesser of two evils (i.e., Beats vs. Sennheiser), then I'd have to pick Beats.
Sennheisers and Beats are always on display at every music or electronics store. Both say they are the best. Thousands of people demo them every day. Yet Beats is winning the battle. When hearing both Beats and Sennheisers in the store, people are preferring Beats. This is a fact.
Sorry for the derail but just trying to establish that people love sub bass and the Beats bass in particular.
For the last 3 years, I've personally put no less than 40 different pairs of headphones on my girlfriend's head and she absolutely positively doesn't like any of them more than her Studio Beats. I'm not talking cheap headphones either. I'm talking Ultrasones, V-Moda, HD-800's, LCD 2's, it doesn't matter. She can't live without the Beats subs. P*sses me off like you wouldn't believe. Then she asks me what kind of con job they did to sell headphones at that price and I must admit I'm very close to strangling her.
I have many other friends that feel the same way as my girlfriend. I'm just trying to let you all know that these people do exist. They are out there, with bobbing heads and totally oblivious to the audiophile world.
I'm excited about my plans to attend the New York spring meetup on Saturday, June 10th, 2017. I'll have a table set up with the
dual-listening setup of my portable headphone system and EQ presets for everyone to hear. (
Click here for more details.)
Tell your friends and girlfriend to head on over to that meetup, so they can hear what I've got,...and get
totally blown away with absolute awe! 
