• Audiophiles are the stupidest fucking people in the world
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[img]http://www.buyonline.ph/5579-6035-large/genius-sw-n21-200-speaker-subwoofer-system-.jpg[/img] Sure, it may look awful, only 2 speakers, I guess audiophiles will find that rubbish. But don't be fooled, you know what, it was a [I]genius[/I] purchase, they sound absolutely brilliant.
So I can go down to the hardware store, buy a few extention cords and adapters, braid the cords together, attach the adapters make everything look pretty and sell it for about $1500? brb going shopping.
[img]http://u.snelhest.org/i/2010/11/24_2999.jpg[/img] My headphones. They completely surround your ear, pressing at your skull. A proper tight fit not letting a lot of noise neither in nor out.
[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] Then, this is not a problem of being an audiophile, but more a fashion statement. Even then it turns be a problem if you're one of those assholes that spend 1 thousand dollars just to buy a shoe with a logo on it. Don't get me wrong though, sometimes its okay to spend, "four hundred thousand dollars to fire [a] weapon... for twelve seconds."
[QUOTE=Kalkka;26263735][img_thumb]http://www.myinear.com/images/koss-porta-pro-p.jpg[/img_thumb] Fuck those fancy Skullshit headphones. Get a pair of these and you'll never wanna even look at other headphones.[/QUOTE] I've had a lot of these, and their biggest problem is the cable. After half a year or so, you can guarantee that the right earphone stops working. Now I stick to sennheiser px-100. They have s neutral sound and lastlonger. Costs more or less like a porta pro.
[QUOTE=Thaard;26264175]I've had a lot of these, and their biggest problem is the cable. After half a year or so, you can guarantee that the right earphone stops working. Now I stick to sennheiser px-100. They have s neutral sound and lastlonger. Costs more or less like a porta pro.[/QUOTE] Other than the cable, I found that the soft, spongy thing wore out at the edges. Eventually breaking.
My headphones cost me 3 pounds and they are already sounding a million times better than skullcandy [editline]24th November 2010[/editline] [url]http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/in-ear-stereo-earphones.html[/url] [IMG]http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/images/cached_thumbs/97/100501_CO2-0.jpg[/IMG] Buy these, cost fuck all and sound amazing How the hell did you rate me funny the very second I posted that
just wait until you try even cheap "audiophile" plugs like Shure SCL-2
[QUOTE=Thaard;26264175]I've had a lot of these, and their biggest problem is the cable. After half a year or so, you can guarantee that the right earphone stops working. Now I stick to sennheiser px-100. They have s neutral sound and lastlonger. Costs more or less like a porta pro.[/QUOTE] I've reinforced the end of the cable by wrapping a couple of layers of clear scotch tape on it, and I've been using these same headphones for like 2 years with not a single problem. [editline]24th November 2010[/editline] even the soft spongy thingies have remained completely intact.
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;26260969]Anyone who spends more than $10 dollars on a cord is unfit to use equipment requiring cords[/QUOTE] Fiber optic cord.
I listen to music off Youtube videos with a pair of cheap, plastic CD-player head phones from the 90's.
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;26265581]Fiber optic cord.[/QUOTE] And shielded network cables usually are pricy.
[QUOTE=NoMercyXTF;26260287][B]There is almost no other group that prides themselves more on wasting good money on utterly worthless shit, and then trying to furiously blow smoke up their own ass to justify it.[/B][/QUOTE] Apple hipsters.
[QUOTE=SuperHoboMan;26265765]Apple hipsters.[/QUOTE] Apple computers are just overpriced, they're still perfectly capable. These things, esp the magic light, are literally worthless. It does nothing.
[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;26265806]Apple computers are just overpriced, they're still perfectly capable. These things, esp the magic light, are literally worthless. It does nothing.[/QUOTE] suddenly I'm reminded of how "Magical" is now an official technical description of the iPad.
[QUOTE=Apocalypsox;26260351]Learn some engineering, those powercords actually have a purpose in audio. But basically, yeah. No reason for them to be so stupid expensive. I don't like audiophiles either.[/QUOTE] Unless those powercords somehow filter huge disturbances from the incoming AC power, those cords are the biggest waste of money I've ever seen. And if your AC supply is that bad I wouldn't try to fix it utilizing a thousand dollar [I]*power cord*.[/I] I'd call my electricity provider.
[QUOTE=Sector 7;26261371]1/4inch music cables, sure. Not goddamn power cords. Oh god I just got a fantastic idea: GAMING power cables! Improve your FPS by de-magnetizing your power fluctuations! I could write superfluous descriptions for them on my website and sell them to Alienware owners! Way to be an idiotic consumer. Why do you need to replace them if they sound good and still work?[/QUOTE] Because according to everyone, "Listening to Skullcandy is like listening to music through a bag of shit", so I'm wondering if there's a massive sound quality gap that I'm missing out on.
[QUOTE=HeatPipe;26263630]I think mac fanboys are more stupid sorry.[/QUOTE] I think you mean fanboys in general. windows fanboys are just as bad for example.
flac is only useful for archive purposes, and also if you want to convert it to a lot of different formats it sounds marginally better if the source file is flac 320kbs mp3 is great and I have no problems with it, but given the choice between two identical songs, one encoded in 320mp3 and the other in flac, I'd choose flac
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;26260328]True audiophiles procure equipment that actually works, gullible retards buy this shit.[/QUOTE] Pretty much the truth here. Who would buy the Disc Energizer though? Thing looks stupid.
im currently wearing a pair of headphones from 1987 :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;26263798]I agree with OP, audiophiles fucking suck. So Sennheiser makes bad earphones??[/QUOTE] You don't agree with OP you don't even understand OP worthless postcount whoring post. Sennheiser makes some pretty good headphones. But HD 280 isn't one of them. Hardly audiophile quality anyway.
Audiophiles don't buy that shit in the OP. They buy shit that has a USE.
v-moda headphones that is all they're good i mean
[QUOTE=Noxag;26266552]Audiophiles don't buy that shit in the OP. They buy shit that has a USE.[/QUOTE] No true scotsman all up in this bitch. Audiophiles buy both useful and useless shit, the stuff I posted was from audiophilia.com. Just because some are reasonable and spend reasonable amounts of money on ok gear doesn't mean that there aren't quite a few people who would buy the stuff in my OP. Though, the title might have been better as "Audiophiles are [I]some[/I] of the..."
I'd have a hard time going back to music without my sound card. Once you get used to the better quality, going back just sounds really bad.
I'm studying sound engineering at the moment, so I guess I'm an audiophile to an extent. I tend to buy audio equipment based on the specifications of the product rather than the price it's based on. It's always good to do a bit of research on how it will peform.
[QUOTE=NoMercyXTF;26260287]There is almost no other group that prides themselves more on wasting good money on utterly worthless shit, and then trying to furiously blow smoke up their own ass to justify it. With the help of the website audiophilia.com and two special reviews, I hope to convince you of this fact. First off, we have something mundane yet still idiotic. It's called the [B][B]LessLoss Audio Devices DFPC Signature Power Cord, and [/B][/B]don't let the name fool you, because this is literally just a power cord. A goddamned gorgeous power cord [img_thumb]http://www.audiophilia.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lessloss.jpg[/img_thumb] But still a power cord. But no, according to our good friend Mr. Martin Appel, it's more than worth it's [highlight]$1149[/highlight] price. Why? Well it's simple: [URL]http://www.audiophilia.com/wp/?p=3020[/URL] Before you point it out, yes this person burnt in a power cable. As we can see, this humble power cord is practically magical in it's audio improvement qualities. Of course, there is no objective measures in this, only speak of "soundstages" and "space" and vauge comments about how the sound just SOUNDS better and it's worth it because of that. But this is practically science next to the other review. Here we have possibly the worst woo I have ever seen. The [B]AER Disc Energizer. [/B]This magic (literally) little item supposedly improves the sound of a Cd by shining a light on it. No i'm not kidding. See for yourself: [URL]http://www.audiophilia.com/wp/?p=4744[/URL] [img_thumb]http://www.audiophilia.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/aer.jpg[/img_thumb] A LIGHT SHINED ON A READ-ON MEDIA MAKES IT SOUND BETTER There's no possible mechanism it could work on, no rhyme or reason why it would work, but it does! It makes a CD sound less digital, whatever that could possibly mean, and it does this: "Thus, the AER Energizer may mitigate or address some of the flaws of many recordings and in some way may be synergistic with Nagys digital cable." No explanation whatsoever, just a magical woo light that addresses flaws that you make up to make it seem valid. And the best part? It's almost [highlight]$900[/highlight] A magic CD light is $900. And people have bought it, and given it good reviews. If that doesn't speak to insanity, I have no idea what would.[/QUOTE] Calm the hell down there just people with an equipment preference damn it. Also, I'm not an audiophile.
I had a decent pair of headphones but they broke and I've been stuck with a 5 dollar pair of Maxwell(or something) brand headphones. :/
[QUOTE=tier56;26266873]Calm the hell down there just people with an equipment preference damn it. Also, I'm not an audiophile.[/QUOTE] They're I'm not mad, more amused than anything, but still annoyed. This is far beyond an equipment preference, "these cans sound better than those" is a preference. "I shined a light on my CD and it sounded better" is idiotic. e: Oh and speaking of idiotic, I found this little gem searching for expensive equipment: [url]http://6moons.com/audioreviews/jsmr/ultra.html[/url] [img]http://6moons.com/audioreviews/jsmr/hero.jpg[/img] They're called Ultra Tweeters, and they put out a 1 GHz signal. Yes, that's right, 1 gigahertz, slightly below what your cell phone works at. Of course the review comes up positive, despite it being literally impossible for it to have an affect beyond a negative one, i.e. producing EM interference, but hey it's only like $300. An absolute steal next to most of these
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