svart-hvitt
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Why are many music genres so angry?
Damnit, the RME isn’t enough.. hurry up Massdrop, delivery my damn 789 so I can be a full memeber here already!
The web may be ideal for taking out the basis instinct of man, the «reptile» instincts.
As man is cultured, he learns what is humour, irony, sarcasm, he learns to play with words, not just use words and language to get things done.
Internet is not a place to nurture the finer traits of human culture, so everything boils down to reptile hate-love, fight-or-flight.
One reason I will never have Twitter, or Instagram, or any of the other platforms
More and more efficient ways to communicate less and less.One reason I will never have Twitter, or Instagram, or...
Because I'm mad as hell that con-artists, snake oil marketers, and all of their ilk have taken a hobby that I've enjoyed since the 1950s and turned it into the laughing stock of serious minded people. I won't even start to list the crazy things being purposed and products sold at ridiculous pricing levels, that anyone with a common sense thought process wouldn't automatically discard as voodoo.Why so much passion?
Because I'm mad as hell that con-artists, snake oil marketers, and all of their ilk have taken a hobby that I've enjoyed since the 1950s and turned it into the laughing stock of serious minded people. I won't even start to list the crazy things being purposed and products sold at ridiculous pricing levels, that anyone with a common sense thought process wouldn't automatically discard as voodoo.
"The gullibility of audiophiles is what astonishes me the most, even after all these years. How is it possible, how did it ever happen, that they trust fairy-tale purveyors and mystic gurus more than reliable sources of scientific information?"
Peter Aczel
I visited the wine shop today and got a shocker. A wine I bought five years ago, a 1992 special vintage, cost five times more today for a 2009 vintage.
The difference there is supply and demand. There is only so much of a particular vineyard, and if the wine from it is discovered and becomes popular, they can't just make more. Not true for audio equipment.
Sadly, this is the case for my favorite wines, Cote-Rotie and Cornas, which used to cost $15, then after becoming glamorized, shot up well over $100. I'm now living off older vintages, I can't afford anything decent being sold out of these now.
I won't even start to list the crazy things being purposed and products sold at ridiculous pricing levels, that anyone with a common sense thought process wouldn't automatically discard as voodoo.
True i can't stand the crowd who get rude as hell to any Grado headphone fan or even ER4 fans kinda, on how there opinions are not valid until they get better measuring gear.
I think that the Etymotic ER4 series is a good example of how specification may not be the be all and end all. Etymotic seems to have opted out of the brochure figure arms race for frequency response and some of the specifications seem very ordinary. Yet they are a company with a basis in audiology and a solid understanding of hearing. They seem to have designed their product around our ears and hearing rather than chasing brochure bragging rights.
The rare times something about hifi makes it into the mainstream press it's amazing just how quick commenter's are to mock audiophiles for stupid cable beliefs. Amongst people who know nothing about hifi they know still know more than lots of audiophiles it seems. I don't see this with other hobbies,Because I'm mad as hell that con-artists, snake oil marketers, and all of their ilk have taken a hobby that I've enjoyed since the 1950s and turned it into the laughing stock of serious minded people.
Well, to me, the main problem with Etymotic ER4 is that they were designed before we had a good understanding of the preferred response of in-ear headphones (studies such as this one and this one, which came out very recently). Because of this lack of data, presumably they had to take guesses when deciding what the response of their earphones should be, and it looks like they guessed wrong. Presumably, if Etymotic were to design new IEMs today, they would take the latest research into account and come up with a better product.
Over the years they seem to have made concessions to consumer preference and offer the slightly bassier XR alongside the flatter SR model
I really don't think they arrived at the design by guesswork.
The thing is harman target sounds considerably worse than etymotic er4. There is no mean to choose 200hz and below as bass. Causing a lot of confusion. And the high frequency roll off is also problematic which is not the case of real world.Well, to me, the main problem with Etymotic ER4 is that they were designed before we had a good understanding of the preferred response of in-ear headphones (studies such as this one and this one, which came out very recently). Because of this lack of data, presumably they had to take guesses when deciding what the response of their earphones should be, and it looks like they guessed wrong. Presumably, if Etymotic were to design new IEMs today, they would take the latest research into account and come up with a better product.