You qualify.
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Donāt remember reading any reviews where anyone had to pull it down. The filter sets that come with it roll the treble off to different degrees apparently.
The curette procedure was a long time ago. They were cold metal rods with hoops on the end and it kind of hurt; I remember thinking āI wonder if sheās actually ever done this before?ā Iām not fully plugged right now, managing to keep it from that point with peroxide / mineral oil and irrigation but I think ultimately Iāll have to go in for a procedure because I havenāt been able to break anything loose.
Iām close to 40 and can still hear nearly 16k Hz. Itās interesting to me because very recently I realized my dad (late 60s) cannot hear a 4k Hz tone. We both love music, but I have the new perspective of his hearing loss and how that may affect what heās hearing. My brother bought him IEMs last year that Iād describe as extremely bright and it didnāt even phase him. Makes sense now in retrospect.
Nothing 4khz and higher? Jesus. Is that from decades of being a drummer or something?
Someone my husband knows has a threshold of 8k iirc, so one time hubby played a song in Audacity with everything above 8k muted so we could hear it like our friend does. Holy shit. Ever have your hearing shot for the rest of the night after attending a live gig that was way too loud for the tiny venue? The filter very much reminded me of that moment you leave the bar.
I tried to find my cap last year but the really high pitches weirded me out, theyāre like needles in the ear. When I got to like 18k I was content to just make it stop.
Still rocking my Onkyo receiver and Polk 10s from college - 30 years ago. And they still sound great. Incredible how long solid state technology not built by Apple can last.
My car has a couple pretty badass front door speakers, a good 100W amp and a modest subwoofer.
I canāt ever get into good headphones because I can never find any that fit completely over my giant ears. If they even touch the edge of the ear it starts to hurt after 30 minutes and gets really painful after an hour.
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Just got the Shure Aonic 50s. Absolutely love them. Iāve had the last generation Bose QCs, last generation Sony 1000xm, and they blow them both away when it comes to sound quality. They are also super comfortable and way better build quality.
Drawbacks are slightly worse noise cancelling and they are bulkier, and the carry case is massive.
Correct. We knew he suffered hearing damage as a child in one ear, but he canāt hear 4k at all in either ear. I kept taking it down in Audacity and it faintly came in for him around 3900. Shortly after, he began to describe tinnitus. He hasnāt been able to hear high freqs for a long time but I had no idea it was that low. Urged him to see an audiologist or ENT but he wonāt because BOOMERS.
USB power brick ā Raspberry Pi ā Audacity ā AQ Dragonfly ā Etymotic ERx ā the highest sine wave your victim can hear
Thatās the schematic for a highly-portable torture device.
That sucks. I have tiny ears which is a big advantage in the headphone game. There has to be something out there for you though.
Maybe just over the ears instead of around the ears.
Iāve had on-ears before and didnāt like them much at all. Have you tried Sennheisers in the 500/600 line?
I wasnt sure how much the word āaudiophileā was being used tongue in cheek because in some circles it became a term of derision. Although reading the thread Iām gonna guess you all arenāt buying Pear Cables so it might just be semantics.
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
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Wait I need to know how danceable those pebbles are first.
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You really need this for controlling seismic effects from footfalls, but maybe by ādanceableā you meant hypothetically danceable or head danceable as used on internet forums: āThese fly beats are so danceable that if I were to danceāwhich, in practice, I absolutely will notāthen this would really get my ass movingā aka āI could totally see myself dancing to thisā in which case you need a psychoacoustic seismic dampener.
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No doubt Iām flossin.
For something, Iām sure. What exactly, I donāt know.
Got the Sony WH1000XM4 NC headphones for travelling. Of course COVID hit so they have not been used yet. Need to find some good audio for the tv/living room but no idea what to buy. Guaranteed to stay in this appartment for the next 10 years so could justify buying something pricey for xmas.
No doubt a large % of audiophiles are wackos who make us all look crazy, so the derision is warranted. Iām more in the objectivist/measurement camp and try not to fall prey to snake oil such as cables and, IMO, expensive amps & dacs. (I did believe in dacs for a minute because of an unlucky early experience with a bad mp3 player leading me to think dacs made a different in general, until I tried more dacs to realize they donāt. I at least expected a hyped r2r dac to beat my cheapo laptop motherboard, but it didnāt, so my ability to put bias aside when listening has saved me a chunk of change. Now I stick to the gear that truly matters, such as the pebbles Lawnmower_Man linked to ;)
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I used to have https://petertyson.co.uk/bowers-wilkins-607-standmount-speakers
With the kevlar cones & a marantz CD & Amp all bought in around 1990/2000
I got the Amp & CD player at a very decent price, paid Ā£100 for the CD player & Ā£200 for the speakers and amp, for get the models but the CD player was a top review at the time & the B/W speakers are just superb for the price.
I preferred that set up at the time to denon as it was better, alough denon did produce better quality stuff going forward.
My brother has a cyrus set up & itās amazing tbh but pricey, hes spent more Ā£ on sound gear that his house 
and finally settled on thisā¦
Amazing sounds with the B/W pod speakers
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Lol, yeah, like I said itās just semantics; by this definition Iām an audiophile too.
And in relative terms itās funny; Iāve told normies āyeah you donāt need all that snake oil bullshit, my two headphones āonlyā cost 150 and 375 dollarsā and then their jaws drop that I said to spend more than 20 on some headphones.
Due to wax problems and discomfort, I decided to stop using IEMs entirely. Problem is I needed good closed back headphones to replace them and good closed back headphones are notoriously hard to come by. I ultimately determined I was willing to pay up (within reason) given how often I might be using these and finally landed on a pair of MrSpeakers Aeon Flow Closed (1st gen). My top priorities were isolation, neutral signature, comfort, and soundstage and these have delivered on all of those things and more.
I was going to post a full review, but Iāll hold off for now for two reasons. First, these drivers apparently need ~100 more hours to fully break in. Second, Iām not sure I can say much at this point that hasnāt already been said. For example, this review hits most of the points Iād make:
Iāll emphasize some of my key impressions:
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The build quality really is immaculate and they are incredibly comfortable. They arenāt clampy or heavy at all. Not sure Iād say they are as comfortable as an HD 6xx series (lighter with velour) but theyāre close.
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Planar magnetic bass is different. It really hits with some heft that I havenāt experienced before, but I wouldnāt call these bassy headphones. Itās just that the bass has both superb clarity and weight.
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The resolution is much better than, e.g., Sennheiser 5xx/6xx series. I think itās a technical property of planar magnetics but these really do render detail to a new degree for me.
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The imaging has almost pinpoint accuracy Iād say. Not just left/right but also from slightly behind and above/below. Some sounds will oddly and noticeably render above or below everything else. In other words, while you could locate the sounds by pointing them out in 3D space, that location doesnāt always make much sense to me. That could just be an artifact of a studio recording though. I listened to a few orchestras that gave the impression I was sitting toward the back of a music hall which was interesting.
- The treble is oddly noticeable sometimes. In particular, hand claps sound weird and really stick out to me where they havenāt before. On the other hand (!), some instruments like a well-recorded snare hit with itās snappy transient and sizzling highs sound amazingly realistic. Havenāt noticed much sibilance. There are several sets of filters that can influence all of this but I havenāt played with them much.
Iām mostly powering these off an iFi xCan with AptX Bluetooth. Spotify, Tidal, FLAC files from my phone, laptop, and Sony Walkman DAP. If I donāt want to amp they are fine for podcasts/vlogs and background music but not loud music.
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