Reading that article, it’s interesting to see that in 1997 $15,000 for the Orpheus and $4,500 for the Stax Omega was considered ultra high end when nowadays those price ranges, while still substantial, are no longer considered the end all be all of summit fi type gear. Of course in 1997 I could barely afford the Grado SR-60s that became my first hifi headphones.
How times change.
That is a great website. Thanks for sharing it. It’s interesting that they’ve measured the Hifiman RE-600s there. I still love my pair and it’s cool to see how well it measures even compared to newer IEMs.
I scrimped for a pair of 80; passed them on to my son who used them until 5 years ago. The foam was not pleasant by then.
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Reading that article, it’s interesting to see that in 1997 $15,000 for the Orpheus and $4,500 for the Stax Omega was considered ultra high end when nowadays those price ranges, while still substantial, are no longer considered the end all be all of summit fi type gear. Of course in 1997 I could barely afford the Grado SR-60s that became my first hifi headphones.
How times change.
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Remembering Wes Phillips, Tyll, Inner-fi and days gone by: https://www.stereophile.com/headphones/261/index.html Lift one to that what’s gone.
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Ha! Yep, the SR-60s were my first “hi-end” headphone … owned in the late '90s-early '00s. And when I stepped up to Sennheiser 650s (discounted to 350$), I figured … wow … this must be the ultimate now. (And so funny, as I never amplified them with anything other than my Mac output, so it’s as if I never even really heard them at all).
I used to read Audio Advisor catalogs and peruse the headphone listings on Headroom and lust over the HD600s, thinking “Wow if I could ever just scrape $400 together I will achieve audio NIRVANA.” Fast forward to today and everyone says “Yeah HD600/6XX/650 are great for ENTRY level lololol.”
By the time I passed on my SR-60s to my 4 year old daughter to watch YouTube with the foam was basically disintegrating. And they were in bad shape for several years prior to that. Solid build quality they definitely did not have.
Tyll ascended to luminary status in his chosen profession. I would have hoped stereophile would have at least retained a link to his Wall of Fame lists.
It’s definitely sad to see IF gone to the wayside. I know there are quite a few people trying to preserve the content of the site though so hopefully the content will live on in one way or another.
As I’ve been trying to explain to people, InternetArchive.org (archive.org) has had as its mission for at least 15 years the preservation and archiving of the Internet by taking snapshots of sites at various times. It’s pretty good at what it does. News organizations use it all the time to check on what websites said before some reporter caught them with their pants down.
The mechanism that InternetArchive.org uses is primarily the “Wayback Machine” which is on the site, and free to use. They have other tools used when sites are actively cooperating in trying to be archived. This is one of the few Internet organizations - another is Wikipedia - that I occasionally support with my personal donations.
Above I had posted several links to Wayback Machine captures of InnerFidelity content.
They also have a huge selection of books, software, video, and audio including some 24 bit recordings. Some downloadable, some stream only. The Wayback Machine and related apps may be found in the menu for archive.org. It’s also easily searchable.
Stereophile home page is now showing a Banner message about the demise of innerfidelity:
“Welcome InnerFidelity and AudioStream readers! Yes these sites are now gone and we’ll be adding popular content to Stereophile over the next few weeks.”
I couldn’t find any details of what will be added or where.
Thanks for the update.
I’d rather not go check the site tho. No need to drive traffic to them. I’m bitter.
Tyll’s measurements are up now, I just noticed:
AND they can be downloaded as a single PDF!