>literally mfw I tried using some pleb tier speakers recently after becoming an audiophile
It's amazing how people can listen to stuff that sounds like pure shit. What's the point of even listening to music if you're going to use shit to listen to it with?
Sometimes I think the only people who hate audiophiles are poorshits who can't afford to become one.
>>52072022
I feel that way when i see people with basic earbuds.
>>52072022
most people have things more important to do in their life than complain about speakers. I do hate it when someone plays music on their phone, cranks it up max volume, and thinks it's okay to listen to such distorted shit.
>>52072022
Is he an autist?
>>52072022
The first real audio equipment I ever owned was a pair of RE-400s. They sounded fucking amazing, but with their shit build quality they perished after just 2 weeks, and then they got lost in the mail when I sent them for replacement. Had to go back to using apple earpods for a few months, mother of god. I couldn't believe what I was hearing when I put those things back in after not using them for so long. Like, music literally did not sound like music when played through those. Just pure mud and boomy, unintelligible noise.
It was a dark time in my life.
>>52072022
Have fun getting cancer
>>52072142
>earbuds
How can even people use that shit? Why don't they just buy a pair of good headphones? There are pretty good ones that are not that expensive and they pretty much never break.
>they buy beats
>>52074165
earbuds are much smaller and much more comfortable
some people dont care too much about audio quality, plain and simple
>>52074192
>earbuds are much more comfortable
I don't think so. My headphones are way more comfortable than any earbuds I've ever used.
>>52074165
Personally, I use IEMs when I'm going out.
Using full blown headphones outdoors often makes you look like a huge autist.
The only ones that don't seem to make you look stupid outdoors are the shitty ones with a small profile, because then it looks like you're just listening to an e-book.
And then there are beats and cat ear headphones but those are for niggers and hipster-weebs.
>>52072022
I own 1k iems/headphines and I blast music out of my phone all the time because it's convenient. I also watch movies out of my phone yet I have a perfectly calibrated ips monitor and a 2k projector in a sound treated room.
At some point you just stop caring and want to go back to actually consuming the content.
The best part about owning expensive shit is showing it off, not actually using it.
>>52074230
>Using full blown headphones outdoors often makes you look like a huge autist.
That's definetely true though. I never listen to music when I'm going out anyway though so I don't really give a shit. But I always use headphones when I'm in a train.
>>52074241
Why would you do something as uncomfortable as watching a movie on a shitty phone screen if you already have everything set up?
>>52072484
>heat causes cancer
Wot
I use shitty $6 monoprice in ears when working out / at school and my sennheiser hd 448s at home.
I'd love to spend more on audio but i'm only 56% autistic
>>52072022
Welcome to the other side brother, glad you took the blue pill
>>52074217
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yen8xGc6t_o
>>52072022
>self identifying an audiophile ever
Even if you do know what you're talking about, it's still stupid.
I agree that most people are plebs and listen to their shit on shit, but it's not expensive to get a good quality setup unless you want 5.1.
>tfw my PortaPros likely sound the same as your 500 dollar cans
Get fucked audiophiles
>>52074341
kek
>>52074192
>much more comfortable
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
>>52074321
by radiation they mean thermal radiation :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNVyrciE5no
Remember to buy expensive cables to hear the expert audio with your expert ears.
>>52075367
Theres so fucking little radiation that comes from a phone its the same thing with the retards who think that the fukushima incident was some big thing
>>52072022
Why is his head pulsating?
>>52075370
for someone that gives a shit about audio quality he really doesn't give a fuck about what microphone he uses
>>52075412
Well not exactly. Fukushima did minusculely raise the risk of cancer for some people. That's more than cell phones.
>>52075443
That guy is a typical "audiophile".
Fat, ugly and obsessed with snake oil.
>>52075429
He's experiencing the vibrations. He is becoming one with sound.
>>52075370
>I have this one cable
>but this otherone I like more
unless he was converting the audio from digital to analog why does he magically believe that a 1 or a 0 from some place is any different from a 1 and a 0 from another calbe
what utter bullshit that people think they can tell the difference between some stupid cable between another
>>52072022
are those supposed to be really good or really bad?
>>52075602
Its almost as if hes playing them too loud and hes experiencing pain
>>52072022
>What's the point of even listening to music if you're going to use shit to listen to it with?
Most people don't know what it is supposed to sound like. They don't understand that there is a difference to speakers other than the amount of volume they can output.
This is mostly exacerbated by promotion of the output power. You always hear of speakers advertised by how many watts they are and it means nothing.
But there is still a limit. The majority of expensive speakers/headphones only sound noticeably better in controlled conditions. There's no point wearing HD800s on the bus.
You can get some good headphones/IEMs for $50-100 that you can wear anywhere and are noticeably better than shitphones and that's all normies really need to get.
Because the problem is you become the same bitter fuck unwilling to be happy.
I am advocating you take the place of every shitty prime time TV story "genius" who makes himself stupid to be happy? no. am I saying that only stupid people can be happy? no.
You should try to enjoy the music with your overpriced equipment the best you can. If you can't get it in the quality you want, listen to it anyway, get the fuck over it, and move on. Don't make it your monthly project to find it in the quality because you won't give a fuck about the music when you finally get your hands on it.
I did this same shit when I got 3 monitors... there is always gonna be some game that doesn't support it even with hacks or what have you. Some brand new "AAA" games don't support it, some 20 year old ones do. I was in a period where I made such a huge deal about how I couldn't play my game with 3 monitors, I wouldn't play it, and suffer. Then I got the fuck over it and now do spend a little time to try to get a new game that won't immediately work but if not, I get the fuck over it and enjoy it. GET THE FUCK OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!
>>52075668
Are you feeling okay?
>>52075412
Fukushima released ionizing radiation. That causes cancer.
Cellphones release non-ionizing radiation. That doesn't cause cancer.
There is some debate that cancers can be triggered/caused by heating cells, ie by microwaves, but it isn't proven that cellphone microwaves can actually cause it.
After all, the entirety of your body heats up when you have a fever and you don't get cancer, and cellphones can't be heating cells more than a few fractions of a degree or else it would be apparent to the user.
How can the average audiophile "expert" be a judge of sound when their hearing deteriorates more and more as years pass, like that grandpa faggot in OPs pic?
Isn't it contradictory to state that you are improving your hearing "tastes"/"standards" through the years while your hearing is at the same time naturally deteriorating?
Basically, what the fuck is up with the audiophile paradox?
>>52075602
They're like $2000 headphones that his friend bought and, according to his ears, they're terrible.
>>52075712
>There is some debate that cancers can be triggered/caused by heating cells
That's an extremely generous way to phrase it. Microwaves don't cause cancer.
>>52075791
gotta find that video
>>52075858
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWF7MEpVwk
>>52072245
I like you... Whats important to one person isn't always universally important to others. Just like I don't give a fuck about cars but love motorcycles.
While I do agree with OP that there is a difference in sound when listening to music through your crappy laptop speakers vs. a decent stereo (not talking placebo hi-fi bullshit like silver wires for digital transport) but even a midrange set of 2.1 speakers would sound so much better than shit speakers that have a narrow sound range.
But yeah, making it a point for perceived superiority amongst others is an exercise in vanity, ignorance and insecurity. OP is thus a raging loser fag.
>>52074165
There are highend 'earbuds', you twerp.
>>52074315
Probably because you can't take said high end tv/projector in a specialized viewing room with you when you're on the road, at work, taking a jog, etc.
Just using a tiny bit of thought is all...
>>52075370
"Brutally honest" == fucking harsh and tweaked towards highs. So when 'audiophiles' listen to these shits, they focus on the high notes and think they are 'very revealing, details, fast, etc.' but they aren't musical at all. Its like fucking pretentious snobs who eat shit food and pretend to like it cause they want to appear like foodies.
>>52076774
>aac instead of objectively superior opus
What a pleb.
>>52076016
What was the point in changing the music, or was this supposed to be a joke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ
>>52075598
Did that look like a motherfucking USB cable?
KEF Reference 5.
Accept no substitures.
>>52076774
What is this moonspeak shit
>>52077125
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4apanJi-duM
>>52076774
>>52077183
>listening to weaboo vocaloid garbage instead of respectable Japanese musicians
Kill yourself.
>>52077193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmnIhlOnIkg
>>52077278
>mediocre alt rock
There's so much fucking good music that country puts out, and you don't listen to it? Come on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Q_y54F070
>>52075370
>audiophile
>uses a shitty mic to record his video in a room with shitty acoustics
>>52077310
Rukia's voice is a little deeper than her singing voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymSHYWtKED8
>>52077356
This actually doesn't put me to sleep. Nice job. If you're looking for folkish stuff, you might enjoy this group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L58rigmoGEo
>>52076736
there are 'highend' hdmi cables too, consumer
>>52077414
There's a difference though.
Headphones are analog, the quality of the driver and the cable will affect what you hear.
HDMI cables are digital, the quality of the data transferred will be protected by the error control.
>mfw people will put up with terrible audio quality when they could pick up good headphones for $100 on sale
>mfw people refuse to put in even a second of work to make their experience with things better
>mfw I have no face
>>52075429
He's listening to the sound file of that guy and his girlfriend being mauled to death by a bear.
>>52072022
>did you forget about me anon?
>>52077414
you got told, son!
>>52077455
>>52072022
>>52072142
I feel like people who use basic earbuds just like background noise, they're not really listening.
Anyone have recommendations for a solid pair of headphones? My Sennheiser HD 419s were broken by a family member. Kinda would like to stay in the sub $150 range.
> tell the lie
> make it big
> tinny and veiled
>>52075821
But mom, south park told me otherwise!
>>52077965
The hd598's are now <$150
They're open cans but I've seen people wearing them outdoors just fine
I started using a CRT monitor as my only display for a laugh, and now every time I look at an LCD I want to throw up.
Daily reminder that Monoprice DJs are less than $20 and sound better than most $200 headphones.
>>52074217
>>52075343
>STOP LIKING THINGS I HATE
>>52077965
Do this >>52078667
I upgraded from 419s to 598s and it was nice.
Its almost 2016 and B&W P7s still don't have a price drop.
>>52072022
>>52072315
I used to listen to all kinds of shitty headphones and thought it was just fine, though one day I decided to get some high-end headphones on a whim, just fuck my wallet up senpai, gimme something expensive and walked out with Grado RS2i's.
For a while I didn't actually notice anything especially different except having to get used to open back, I'm just not music-savvy, but after a few days of using them I went back to my old pair and cringed so hard my face almost inverted.
>>52074165
Maybe all those people with earbuds are wearing them in lieu of ear plugs, so that they don't have to hear autistic faggots everywhere they go.
>>52072022
>>52075645
>>52080757
i'm kind of a poorfag, so i never really had the chance of buying a good audiophile headset
but some months ago i bought a pair of bose headphones, and i think they just sound amazing
The problem now is my shitty smartphone, a samsung galaxy s3 mini that sound really as shitty as possible , and I'm searching for a digital player that can support easily some flacs but that i don't need to sell my house to buy it
>>52081598
btw sorry for bad english
Can someone tell me what the point of floorstanding speakers is if you can just get a bookshelf pair on a stand + a subwoofer for less?
>>52081760
floorstanding speakers are not really different shit in terms of music;
i personally prefere subw+bookshelf , but a friend of mine can't live without a floorstanding pairs to listen to his german classical shit
so mostly is what ou like more buy it. but the whole point is material differences and buld quality
>>52072142
/r/ing that audiophile article about a pair of 30$ earbuds + viper4android sounding better than 300$ equipment
>>52079447
I got them two years ago and they are great.
Best part is you can change the cable.
Altough they can be a bit unconfortable with extended use
>>52074350
But they don't even sound as good as 50$ cans so whats your point m8
>>52075602
It is a joke, take a look at the youtube vid, he says its an dramatization of how they sound for the lulz
Same.
I started with the meme phones m50s then tried some cheap HiFi headphones, the. Got a k701 for $120us that where it went down hill, but I got my end game now, hd600's schiit Asgard + modi.
Don't really see the point in upgrading to anything else, everything above this set up is way into diminishing returns
>>52082822
http://www.head-fi.org/t/726569/review-tour-somic-mh412-viper4android-the-put-up-or-shut-up-review-and-tour
In-ears, and this is something that I've been acutely aware of for some time. The fact is that most in-ears are a few rounds of EQ away from sounding excellent, but you need a good parametric to make these level of adjustments.
>>52075370
Why does he breathe like that, did he just come back from a jog?
>>52083328
>schiit Asgard
oh boy
Hope you have a good fire extinguisher for when that asgard vaporizes your hd600 in one big fiery explosion
>>52083362
I don't use in ears anymore, all my high school friends are practically deaf with tinnitus from blasting their Apple shit, and I noticed myself that I would gradually turn up my in ears throughout the day as they slowly made me go deaf
>>52083655
Earbuds aren't in-ears.
That you damaged your own ears is a lack of self control, and not that sounds close to the ear is inherently more damaging.
>>52083655
>>52083695
This. There's nothing inherently wrong with in-ear monitors.
The volume problem is related to the fact that cheap buds simply don't reproduce much sound at all, and you need to turn them up louder just to tell sounds apart, although it all ends up blending into a homogenous wall of sound no matter how much you do so.
If your phones are good enough to produce clear and deep sound at comfortable SPLs, then you won't feel the need to hear more than what you're already getting.
>>52083581
the asgard v1 only kills headphones if you leave them plugged in when you turn them off.
always unplug audio equipment before turning amps on or off, this goes for guitars headphones etc.
also the asgard sounds amazing, best amp I've heard.
>>52072022
>nutted but she still sucking.webm
>>52072022
I see better acting in my japanese porn.
>>52075367
B-but thermal radiation is just a fancy way to say heat, is it not?
>>52083823
if you want to be pedantic about it, "thermal" radiation is electromagnetic radiation in the IR range while "heat" is wiggling and vibrating atoms.
>>52072142
I bet you get mad when you see me with my dollar store earbuds. I only use them at the gym however they don't sound too awful.
>>52074241
This poster means to deliberately cause aggression and isn't genuine in his views.
>>52074315
Why did you fall for that?
>>52083815
link?
>>52072022
most people use small radios or earbuds to listen to music and obtain perhaps 75 percent of the signal and the bandwidth with distortion, but that's usually enough to get the point across and engage the listener
i find that when i play music through my "quality" system, the output is so distracting I have to stop and lay there and listen to the music
>>52074165
there are good earbuds, i always carry with me my pair of AKG K321 (i had to rebuy them with low budget, previously i had the Q350, way better), they sound good, loud and with a quite good dynamic range. at home sometimes i use a pair of px360, yes they're better to hear, yes they're more precise, no, they're not worth to be carried around and they don't have enough isolation compared to a simple pair of in-ear
