It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Not your butt.
Your ears.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Damnati postedAfter reading that thread and looking over one of the recommended sites, I think I'll be picking up these headphones and this amp.
Let us know how you like them. My SR-80's are falling apart after a few years of abuse and I'm sorta looking for some closed headphones to replace them in the next year or so.
Best sound quality I have ever heard, on par with my 5.1 speaker set which cost a pretty penny itself.
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Mortious postedEven when my own SR-80's fall apart (they're starting to) I'll still stick with Grado headphones.
Best sound quality I have ever heard, on par with my 5.1 speaker set which cost a pretty penny itself.
My main beef with the Grado's is that open headphones are nigh-useless in any sort of noisy environment. And I don't like the straight cables--I much prefer the one-sided coiled cable on like the Sennheiser HD-280.
Might be worth getting some tight earbuds and replacing the grado's with something similar (80's or 125's) and recabling them. I dunno.
Open air headphones ftl.
But sound quality ftw.
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Alidane thought about the meaning of life:
Let us know how you like them. My SR-80's are falling apart after a few years of abuse and I'm sorta looking for some closed headphones to replace them in the next year or so.
I not confident I can really offer any kind of informed opinion on such things. I've been extremely satisfied with the HD650's as they opened up an entirely new world of sound I hadn't heard in my music before but I can't really attest to actual quality (beyond that I begin to be unsatisfied with most mp3s due to their general lack thereof).
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Asha'man had this to say about John Romero:
it's all in your mind
I believe that you being a woman is all in your mind but you don't see me shitting up your threads with complaints about it. Get the hell out.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Damnati painfully thought these words up:
I believe that you being a woman is all in your mind but you don't see me shitting up your threads with complaints about it. Get the hell out.
Excuse me sir that attack was unwarranted and uncalled for.
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Gadani's fortune cookie read:
Excuse me sir that attack was unwarranted and uncalled for.
This is Evercrest; unwarranted and uncalled for attacks are status quo. Serious business, yo! 
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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A sleep deprived Alidane stammered:
My main beef with the Grado's is that open headphones are nigh-useless in any sort of noisy environment. And I don't like the straight cables--I much prefer the one-sided coiled cable on like the Sennheiser HD-280.Might be worth getting some tight earbuds and replacing the grado's with something similar (80's or 125's) and recabling them. I dunno.
I use the Sennheiser HD-280's. They're great 
I have a $20 pair of sony headphones. They sound perfect.
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Maradon! Model 2000 was programmed to say:
What exactly is it that goes into a pair of headphones that makes them cost more than the computer you're plugging them into?I have a $20 pair of sony headphones. They sound perfect.
People that aren't audiophiles literally can't hear the difference because their ears aren't tuned to the fine shit that goes on with music. That's why so many music buffs are into the weirder technical music genres. Lot more shit going on.
I guess it's kinda like wine where to most people it just tastes like crap where to winos, it tastes like different types of crap.
Truth be told, when I put on Waisz' pair of ~$300 headphones I was pretty blown away by the detail I could hear when I was playing whatever rhythm game we had on at the time. It really helped my playing because I could actually pick out backbeats that you usually wouldn't be able to hear, or clear enough to care about anyways.
"Why should I buy a Westmalle at $5 per beer when I can get just as fucked up on Steel Reserve for $1.75?"
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Maradon! postedWhat exactly is it that goes into a pair of headphones that makes them cost more than the computer you're plugging them into?
I have a $20 pair of sony headphones. They sound perfect.
Have you ever listened to a pair of headphones that cost more than $20?
I'd say that most people can tell the difference between cheap-ass headphones and decent $100-$150 ones; there's just an exponential price curve past that where most people stop being able to tell the difference.
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So quoth Damnati:
So, the new cans showed up yesterday and I've had a bit of time to compare them to my HD650s. The most dominant impression upon putting them on was that they sound muted somehow; it requires the volume on my computer up significantly to get the same sound out of them as the Sennheiser set. Once I do that, however, the bass response is quite noticeably better. As I don't have an amp yet, this may be a result of underpowering the HD650s.
You have ($500) HD650s and no amp? 
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Alidaneing:
Have you ever listened to a pair of headphones that cost more than $20?I'd say that most people can tell the difference between cheap-ass headphones and decent $100-$150 ones; there's just an exponential price curve past that where most people stop being able to tell the difference.
Yes, and no, I couldn't tell a difference. I have listened to much worse headphones, with pops or hisses or balance problems, and also weak ass headphones where you can't hear backbeats or the links on the dude's watch jingling in a movie, but not anything better really.
It just seems like so much snake oil to me because I'm apparently one of the handicapped who are unable to discern these vagaries of sound that are apparently worth $380 or more to some people. I feel like one of those enormous faggots who thinks it's cute to say the same shit about HDTV's, but unlike with them where I just point out the actual increased lines of resolution or show them the same image on both screens so they realize what assholes they are, nobody seems to be able to point to a tangible benefit and prove me wrong.
It feels weird because it's like I'm trying to imagine an audio quality superior to what I hear in real life. When I listen to some Crash Test Dummies, I sincerely doubt I would be able to tell a difference between my headphones and Brad Roberts standing behind me singing in his sexy, rich bass. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 12-18-2007 at 06:57 PM.
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Noxhil2 was all like:
You have ($500) HD650s and no amp?
I paid $315 but yeah, I knew nothing about such things until this thread. Presently, I'm waiting on the amp to ship...and I ordered it a week ago.
@Maradon: It'd be kind of hard to offer proof without putting some particularly good headphones on your head to compare with your cheap ones. I mean, I can hear significant difference between Sennheiser HD650's and beyerdynamic DT770's but I doubt I'd have noticed as much if I hadn't been listening to one shortly before putting on the other. Damnati fucked around with this message on 12-18-2007 at 07:07 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
or over about 160kbps audio quality
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Alidaneing:
Maradon's fucking deaf. I seem to remember coming to this conclusion a few months ago. Probably arguing about bitrates.
It was probably involving sound cards a few years ago. I still don't hear a difference between an Audigy 4 and onboard, but I still like the audigy because of environmental effects
btw I listened to the beeps at the doctor maybe six months ago and I got normal hearing
