[thedefender]

Haha, is everyone on this web site a teenager 

 ?

 

[Bonobo Loco]

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Haha, is everyone on this web site a teenager 

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No... not everyone...
 
I'm 9.

 

[Zeebra]

I would be 21.

 

[Matt head 777]

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When you spend the next two months eating 3min Chinese noodles, because you spent the last of your cash on a pair of $1000 headphones. Despite the fact that you already own a pair of $1000 headphones.
 
Oh...that's me 

ha ha 

 

[Tilpo]

Haha, is everyone on this web site a teenager 

 ?

Headphones are a very popular way of getting in to hi-fi for us youngsters. Good speaker set ups are usually out of reach due to cost and limited space to put them (i.e. most of us live in a (dorm) room and have our hi-fi in this same room).
Additionally, many of us spent a lot of time behind our desks. This means that that the cord of the headphones is not a problem either since we won't be moving much anyways.

And for obvious reasons portable rigs are especially popular among the younger crowd.

 

[Niyologist]

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No... not everyone...
 
I'm 9.

     Wow! Even Pre-Teens are deeply involved in this site?! Makes me proud to see this happen. I started looking into this site at the age of 17. I Should've been into this hobby long ago because it would've kept me out of trouble.

 

[logwed]

I had dial-up when I was 9...

 

[essencez]

I've only upgraded from dial up five years ago. Currently 19. Surprisingly this hobby pays for itself! I am an wholesale importer of audio products which profits basically have gone into funding my own setups hahah.

 

[CharliyuAndCo]

I'm 14 and all my gear adds up to less than $400...
I need a job

 

[SoundFreaq]

when you consider your MP3 player as the accessory, not the headphones. 

 

[logwed]

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I've only upgraded from dial up five years ago. Currently 19. 

 
Exact same for me, had dial-up until HS. I regularly blame my computer near-illiteracy on that fact.

 

[logwed]

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I'm 14 and all my gear adds up to less than $400...
I need a job

When I was 14 my gear added up to $100 (first gen iPod Shuffle and free earbuds), don't worry about upgrading. Take a girl on a date instead of buying gear.
 

 

[Bonobo Loco]

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     Wow! Even Pre-Teens are deeply involved in this site?! Makes me proud to see this happen. I started looking into this site at the age of 17. I Should've been into this hobby long ago because it would've kept me out of trouble.

Was joking about being 9 btw

 

[SixthFall]

Hmm i'm 18. Luckily I do have a job during the summer, so I can actually afford to buy some pretty nice kit.

 

[devouringone3]

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I had dial-up when I was 9...

 
I had cable when I was 8, and I'm 22 now!
 
Haha, we were pretty hyped by our first computer, 600 mHz Pentium II, 6 GiB hard disk, and our high-speed internet connection. We would show it to all the visitors and the family... but there was so little we knew how to do with it.
 
 

Headphones are a very popular way of getting in to hi-fi for us youngsters. Good speaker set ups are usually out of reach due to cost and limited space to put them (i.e. most of us live in a (dorm) room and have our hi-fi in this same room).
Additionally, many of us spent a lot of time behind our desks. This means that that the cord of the headphones is not a problem either since we won't be moving much anyways.
And for obvious reasons portable rigs are especially popular among the younger crowd.

I totally agree. Or at least it's my situation right now and I love my setup and subsequently, work space.
 
But I've grown to become zero portable, though. I now prefer to hear environmental sound and people talk. If, exceptionally, I do not wish that -- in my younger days I used to bike around town with my Sennheiser CX300 u-IEM music all the time, or I simply wouldn't leave the house without my music -- straight out of the headphone jack will do, as I buy my headphones easy to drive.