Thank you for the welcome. I pulled a muscle and am a touch intoxicated, but I hurt and this is something that I enjoy, talking about audio on forums. So sorry if I don’t make sense or I ramble.
I have been on a tech forum for years and feel like I am the douche who think’s he knows everything by recommending thing’s either first or second hand (being something I have heard vetted sources enjoy). I have spent a lot on headfi the past 5 or so years and used my usual vetting techniques. I get something very common and everyone has a review on, see who has the same-ish response to it, then follow their recommendations and see if we agree again. So I have a bit of a profile on various reviewers so I know what parts to appreciate in their video’s and what parts to respectfully disagree with.
Still, I haven’t watched much in the audio world because of it being either overwhelming or on the opposite spectrum it makes me amped up and I want to buy something. Unhealthy wallet practice.
My recent experience has left me on the R70x refine because it’s so comfortable. But I have tubes in the mail to play with it and my 6xx. Also just purchased a tube amp that will hopefully drive my Tungsten. (not going to post about it because I feel like everyone will chime in and say this or that, I just want to experience it and be the judge)
While I appreciate a forum where I am able to throw out my now comparatively uneducated thoughts, I find that a strong ethos here is to avoid people believing in snake oil and the wording I see here and in video’s makes me believe that.
Everything I do is first hand, and having the ability or rather dedication to A/B thing’s or simply be analytical in some way is freaking incredible, I can admit that sometimes I’m just over it and want to zone out to some music. But I seriously look forward to finding guidelines on how and what to experience while focusing on certain thing’s in my collection. Confirmation Bias has to be very difficult to avoid.
I can say though that my recent “high end” purchase was spurred by my funds finally coming in line with my “needs” and availability of products. But moreover it has to do with hearing my friends LCD-X and being ruined. They aren’t the headphones I would purchase because there is some weird disconnect…. um… in the staging or presentation or treble vs everything else. I spent 5 minutes on it so I don’t know what the oddness was, but I know for a fact that it has ruined me.
I absolutely love what you guy’s are doing here, tackling a subject that is objective and not at the same time and pondering certain things while throwing out others. /end ramble
Deciding on equipment or recommending it based only on measurements is a lot like reading about sex. On some of the other audio sites there seem to be a lot of people reading rather than doing.
Doing listening, of course, what did you think I meant?
Minimum phase says you can though. That’s always what this argument seems to return to. I am also skeptical though. I suppose it’s really a question of degrees of similarity.
Sorry to hear of your injury, and I hope you’re feelin better soon. Fwiw, the R70x and 6xx are both headphones I’ve seriously contemplated, and heard many good things about. I have reservations about most headphones though, including these.
At some point though, you have to bite the bullet and just dive in. I was pretty close on a couple models during the July 4th sales. Just couldn’t quite make up my mind which direction to go before the sales ended. So I’m taking a more considered look at the units that seem to fit best with my needs. What this has to do with measurement myths, I dunno. But it’s Friday night. So there ya go!
A couple other threads here that you might (or might not) find relevant to your musings about cost and EQ-ability.
I wanted to follow up on my original comment. I am here to learn and was more or less trying to point out the extreme’s where something other than EQ has to make the difference. But like someone said, this is making a point as part of an equation. You need to take everything into consideration and this video focuses on one specific idea. I am actually going to see if there are guides to EQ and such because I was never good at it. Back in the winamp days and such I would mess around with EQ and just dig myself a hole to where I ended up somewhere completely wonky with no path back and something that sounded crazy. I feel like I can finally learn something about music science instead of purely subjective and recommendation based.
