Considering $10 Panasonic ErgoFit earbuds are budget I very much consider a hundredfold increase in price “high end”.
xdamm777
joined 1 year ago
I’d say it only makes sense if you’re one of those people that keep their phone for 5 years or until it breaks AND you’re 100% certain of the sound signature you’re looking for.
Otherwise you’ll buy an HD 800S and wonder why your brain doesn’t wobble like your fiends Skullcrushers do.
This is why I disable turbo boost on all my Intel machines that don’t actually NEED single core performance.
My most used laptop is a 2019 16” i9 MacBook Pro that gets loud and hot as hell on the default power plan but simply limiting the CPU to 99% makes it whisper quiet, cool and it can run on an 18w iPad power brick with the as long as the brightness isn’t maxed out and I’m not stressing the Radeon 5500M GPU.
Same with my 10w micro Optiplex AD/MSSQL server; the old 4th gen i5 runs Windows server 2022 plenty fast and boot times are insanely quick. Sure, if it had a production database serving thousands of clients at a time then it would definitely crumble but I don’t need more power for a local AD/dev-staging db.
Seems like a pretty solid updated BTR5. Still enjoying mine though, not looking to upgrade and especially not at anything near $100 or higher.
HD800S. Spacious, light, almost zero clamp force and they never feel stuffy and hot during summer like most other headphones I’ve worn.
My only problem with them is the ear pads make a slight squeaky noise with my glasses when I take out them on and it’s annoying.