Headphones

if the hype stays for a long time its not hype anymore lol

Everyone getting excited over yet another Harmon target IEM.

All the weird jokes about over spending and hiding it from their wives.

Of course people will hype the hd6-- since they haven't heard other phones around the same and cheaper bracket and realized they're just pretty good but okay value.

getting hype from an iem, especially cheap chi fi, blindly rec it without listening or it isnt released yet.

Honestly this community is fine compared to many other subreddits.

All those who use hd6-- with cheap or meh amps and then say they are unimpressed. There are hoards of audiophiles who after spending thousands come back to the senny and otl combo as their go to and retire happily.

people who’ve never been to shops and expos having strong opinions

I have reached my end game.

I hate that people find stuff in goodwills or garage sales . Here in neterlands that never happens . Best thing i found at goodwill was a 180 euro philips MFB speakers .

I agree. I like 6XX, but to me it needs EQ. It sounds too dead stock because of the dampening. Also not the best imaging/soundstage. HE560 V4 does that much better.

Multi-BA setups are nice, but I think the ER4 critcism is kind of justified tbh. I think they are super interesting and worth having. But they are not pleasant.

I honestly don’t get the using IEMs with amps. If anyone has an explanation feel free to inform me.

The unnecessary hate on expensive cables. why? They cure cancer!

People calling you all kinds of names for liking something that isn't "objectively the best". Try to explain to someone you might prefer Grados or the Abyss stuff and let the comments roll in.

A lot of people here have the social tact of cave hermits.

A lot of people are super uptight about headphone choices and will call anything that’s not currently being worshipped “complete dog shit”. Like my guy they’re headphones it’s not that big of a deal. Let a guy like his beats or whatever he has

Everyone here only seem to care and hype about cheap headphones and iems that sounds within 1% deviation of each others.

I get that good product at affordable price is good, but they are just so boring too me, since that not usually where innovation happens. And a little spice in the frequency response won't kill anybody you know.

The phrase "mid-fi".

Hifiman is trash and gets recommended way too much

Not sure about now, but I stopped visiting this sub a year ago because of the toxicity of the "subjective" vs "objective" debate.

The fact that side sub has been brigaded multiple times just to win an argument really takes away at the authenticity of it all.

Cables

Copium.

Like you say the HD6XX hype is annoying, and its basically because they're cheap. Same with the endless love of chifi, 'forget Andromeda just get Blessing...'

etc etc.

It's weird because in other areas we all admit more expensive = better, an rtx 4090 delivers a better gaming experience than a 4070. A 4k OLED TV delivers a better viewing experience than a plain 1080p LED TV.

But for some reason pervasive in audio, and on this forum in particular, is a staunch affront to the notion that more expensive headphones, or sources, are gasp, better! It's strange as I've only seen this in audio. I can only surmise it's copium to the highest degree.

The hd600 series has been out for 20+ years now. It’s not hyped, it’s just really good. Isn’t priced ridiculously either.

People who say sennheisers are neutral when they arent because they lack bass and sub bass

The neckbeards and waifus

Treating audio equipment, especially signal chain devices such as dacs, amps and even cables as some kind of black box only wizards such as audio engineers can build and understand and buying multi thousand dollar DACs for the sound. It's kinda sad cause there's really no ultimate reconsiliation between this approach and believing in AES style listening research and measurements, I just tend not to engage in the big arguments or post adversarial shit in threads of people discussing tube signatures or whatever. It's only my opinion but I'd love for the hobby to be way more focused on the actual headphones and speakers and masters/releases which make an enormous difference, and if you wanna get nerdy about it I wanna talk about recording/mixing techniques and all that stuff that's actually part of how music is made and reproduced rather than the quality of a boutique discrete DAC with 40000 components only to produce a passably clean signal rivalling the sansa clip+

reddit is a nice half and half or maybe even leans towards buying transparent signal chain gear and using EQ so that's neat, I haven't been on head-fi in a while but from what I remember every IEM thread had people talking about DAP synergy and the inevitable cable posts about copper vs silver vs silver plated copper vs whatever else

• Everyone assuming the Harman curve is the bible, and that any headphone that strays from it must be poor.
• Hype over high-end wired IEMs. Seriously, what's the deal? There might be a legitimate use for them, but losing the cable is so worth it for anything requiring mobility. There are some outspoken people who lament the loss of the 3.5mm jack in phones, but good riddance. For home listening, an actual wired headphone is much better unless the headband will mess up your hair.

that we all speak from a place of assumed knowledge and usually with heavy bias. i am included, as i read over the stuff i've posted, most of it is either wrong or i feel differently just 2 years or 6 months later!

most of what i read around here is thrown around with the heavy "fact" hammer attached to it but this entire hobby is deeply rooted in personal preference, opinion, feelings...

which are all exceedingly important and don't need to be attacked or defended.

i wish we could present what we have and how we feel about it - without the goofy game of my stuff is better than your stuff. or you're dumb for buying that you should get this cause i own this is and this is the best...

i know it's never going away. but my pet peeve is how passively toxic this whole hobby is.

The term “mid-fi”

Saying the Sundara Closed Back is awful without actually trying it

People like to say audio is subjective… unless it’s made by a big brand. I remember seeing posters that were happy with their AirPods maxes and XM5s being shit on and being told that what they bought was “garbage”