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Sithiee 
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2001,22:42 |
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im going to get a new pair of headphones soon, probably the sony MD 700DJs, cause i saw my friend's pair, and they are sweet...anyway, im wondering if theres anything really a lot better out there thats actaually affordable (i.e. i dont think buying the 5.1 surround sound headphones is actually an affordable option)...but yeah, i guess my pricerange is probably as high as maybe 200-250...something around there....so whats good??
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Dark Knight Bob
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2001,23:01 |
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senheissers are always good for great 50/50 quality /value thats what i have now and man are they goooood
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cr0bar
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Posted on: Mar. 25 2001,23:15 |
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I have a pair of Sennheisers (HD 575, @ J&R) and they're fantastic. You won't go wrong with a Sony, but be fully aware that you're paying tons of extra money for the Sony name, not for anything special. (Sort of like Apple computers)
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CatKnight
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Posted on: Mar. 26 2001,14:13 |
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you're an idiot. or you're mostly deaf. or your friend lied about how much his headphones cost. or your friend is an idiot and payed way to much for shitty headphones. one of the above must be true. and those sony "streey styles" aren't the shit, they ARE shit. they have horribly insensitive ferrite drivers, where any half-way decent headphone uses neodymium (mine use samarium cobolt magnets). granted there are some great sounding cheaper models (koss sporta-pro), but in general there is a BIG difference between crappy cheap headphones and good moderately expensive headphones.
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cr0bar
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Posted on: Mar. 26 2001,15:17 |
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If you want to buy decent headphones, take a track of music that covers a wide range of frequencies (i.e. bass but not constant bass, vocals, drums, acoustic & electric guitar etc.) and rip it off the CD to a .wav. Then, using a good encoder (i.e. not Xing) encode it at 128kbit/s, 160kbit/s, and 256kbit/s. Burn these three files back onto CD, and take it to the store. It helps to bring a decent CD player (i.e. no JVCs etc) for this part. Buy the headphones which sound fantastic at 256kbit/s, and allow you to hear the difference between 128kbit/s and 160kbit/s. If you can't hear the difference between the 128 and the 160 on any of the headphones, leave and keep using the ones that came with your CD player because you're fucking deaf and don't deserve or need new headphones.
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