• Audiophiles are the stupidest fucking people in the world
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[QUOTE=Strongbad;26282612]translation:[/QUOTE] im not even going to respond to you anymore you are either mentally retarded or a bad troll
[QUOTE=Pocket Rocket;26287758]Sony XB-700[/QUOTE] What does that thing use for ear pads, old tires? Small inflatable rafts?
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;26260657]Then you're part of the problem as to why you could find a pair of quality headphones for $20 at any electronics store in 2000, yet today all you find is $50 Skullcandy shitphones. Seriously, that's what Skullcandy does: they take $5 horrible shitty headphones, throw a skull on them and some quirky design, and resell them for $50.[/QUOTE] I got my skullcandy for $17.
[QUOTE=killa101;26295233]I got my skullcandy for $17.[/QUOTE] still $12 too much
[QUOTE=ItchyBarracuda;26293091]OP is the kind of person that likes downloading music illegally and doesn't care about the quality or if it's recorded through a microphone, as long as he has it. Same kind of person that wants to watch a movie like Avatar or Lord of the Rings on your stupid little tiny phone screen and complain that others waste money on a home theater or a television at all.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Xen Tricks;26267935]You seem to have missed where I mentioned I own HD 595s and listen to FLAC[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;26295086]What does that thing use for ear pads, old tires? Small inflatable rafts?[/QUOTE] Something like that, although I'd rather sleep on a pile of XB-700s than old tires :3:
[QUOTE=ItWasNiceToKnow;26287097]Oh, spending money on something suddently makes you STUPID? What about the guys buying a 4 way GTX 580 SLI, the EVGA classified, and two i7-980x? Are they also a part of the most stupid people in the world? No. Oh, what about people buying supercars ? Oh wait, cause they spend money on something that they can get cheaper, they're suddently stupid.[/QUOTE] I hate these kind of comparisons. Buying an insanely powerful computer system, or an insanely powerful car, gives you a measurable increase over cheaper card or computers. Buying an insanely expensive cable almost never does.
A few people in my school bought skullcandies, only because they look cool. Huge abunddence of IGNORANCE over in my school!
Or possibly people who enjoy listening to very high quality music.
AD700s represent.
Only person with Pro-X Aktiflexes in facepunch represent.
Only person with AKG K 272 HD represent. Seriously everyone has the K 271 MK II variation, and I was the only one dumb enough to pay for the newer revision :saddowns:
it's gotta be exactly 100 to 12000 hertz, man, anything outside, i start to pick at my fingernails and eventually, i get a nosebleed
Or you just stumbled upon some crackpot eccentric audiophile webpage.
[img]http://ucables.com/img/ipics/PHILIPS-SHS320037-FLE-R46601.jpg[/img] Is anything else really necessary?
[QUOTE=Jayhawker30;26308110][img_thumb]http://ucables.com/img/ipics/PHILIPS-SHS320037-FLE-R46601.jpg[/img_thumb] Is anything else really necessary?[/QUOTE] To me, yes.
If you hate quality, no.
What are you talking about? They sound perfectly fine.
Earbuds never sound "fine".
[QUOTE=Jayhawker30;26309025]What are you talking about? They sound perfectly fine.[/QUOTE] maybe to you yes but earphones have absolutly crap frequency response
[QUOTE=Jayhawker30;26309025]What are you talking about? They sound perfectly fine.[/QUOTE] Maybe in your opinion. For on the road use they're fine, but some people might hear serious flaws in them when in a calm environment, even without an A-B comparison to better earphones. Personally, I don't need an A-B comparison to be distracted by lo-fi sound (unless I'm in a loud bus or downtown, then Sennheiser CX-300 II are more than enough)
Oh, uh... yes. Of course. But see, ear buds are better soundwave profile receptors because their small size enables the wavelengths to, uh, pick up on finer convergence zone... barriers and shit. Yeah.
Right yeah stop trolling.
Excuse me for humorously expressing the fact that this techno jargin has me a little lost. I didn't mean to offend. Personally, I enjoy good old ear buds because they always provide the immersive sound that speakers and shit sometimes lack. Granted, other headphones are no doubt more capable than these ten dollar doo-dads, but they serve their purpose effectively and at cheap cost.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;26287886]I saw a noticeable difference with Monster cables back when I had my original xbox and my only other option was [url=http://www.electronics-etc.com/catalog/images/XBoxAV.jpg]the crappy cable that came with it[/url]. I don't think you're going to notice much difference between a standard HDMI cable and a gold-plated super shielded monster HDMI, ever.[/QUOTE] You can, but only if you have a super huge LED TV
I never really saw a point in buying a sound card. What is usually the difference between an integrated one and an expensive external one? Sure, quality blahblah, but the internal one sounds perfect for me
[QUOTE=knutmora;26309282]You can, but only if you have a super huge LED TV[/QUOTE] [img]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7610/theriphdmi3.jpg[/img] If you send a JPEG or a video file through a golden USB cable, will the image be better than if it was sent through a regular one? That's right, it won't. Likewise data sent through HDMI will either get through and show on the screen or it won't. The image won't "degrade" or sumshit, unless you're gullible or ignorant enough to "notice" a difference. Clearly people don't understand what does digital signal mean. Besides 90% of the LED TV's in the market are just normal TN-panel televisions with a LED backlight. The only difference to a CCFL might be longer life span and a more even backlight, and even that's not guaranteed if it's an edge lit model. There are some really expensive LED backlit LCD televisions that can dim the backlight from a certain point on the screen depending on the source material, thus basically providing better contrast, but anyway "super huge LED TV" doesn't mean anything. Misinformation, misinformation everywhere.
[QUOTE=Pocket Rocket;26309477]Likewise data sent through HDMI will either get through and show on the screen or it won't. The image won't "degrade" or sumshit, unless you're gullible or ignorant enough to "notice" a difference. Clearly people don't understand what does digital signal mean.[/QUOTE] You can get struttering and blocky/miscoloured image if your cable has weak contact / is broken at some point
[QUOTE=evilking1;26309502]You can get struttering and blocky/miscoloured image if your cable has weak contact / is broken at some point[/QUOTE] That's VERY evident though. And if your regular cable works well then an expensive teflon insulated silver wire won't improve it.
I'd spend maybe £5 on a cable at the very most. Right now for my computer is use cheapy headphones which I have to put on max volume to be able to hear properly unless they're held over my ears with duct tape. I went through one good set which had wires turn to dust after a couple of months, a second set that suffered the same fate despite double-sheathing the wire in surgical tubing, and two sets of earbuds. One of which were surprisingly good and, being practically rubber earplugs, even prevented me from being able to hear the fire engines as a flat burnt down a few doors away. Earbuds seemed to last 10x longer until they died from wear, but the more expensive good ones broke inside after a month and despite my attempts I couldn't reconnect them. But then I'm not an audiophile, if it's of decent volume and doesn't crackle to hell I'm fine with it.
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