Do you consider yourself an audiophile?
- Thread starter Doctor Carrot
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Is it analogue or digital ground?
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
New Sennheiser headphones, just 50,000 Euros.
The purest of all audio, shielded from the chaos and disruption of the outside world, is now ready to emerge from the heart of the monument.
It ascends through the silver-plated copper cable, chosen for its optimum conductivity, and when it flows from the ear cups, a sound of a purity never before experienced is born. The hypoallergenic and breathable ear cups, hand-made in Germany, and of genuine leather, ensure the highest possible comfort that allows the listener to immerse themselves entirely in an audio experience that is itself a monument to sound.
Sennheiser - Reshaping excellence
The forthcoming “Orpheus” model boasts silver-plated copper cable and “gold-vaporized ceramic electrodes and platinum-vaporized diaphragms … exactly 2.4 µ thick, the result of extensive research that shows that any thinner or thicker would be sub-optimal.” The accompanying amplifier boasts “comes from Carrara in Italy and is the same type of marble that Michelangelo used to create his sculptures.
The tubes “rise from the base and start to glow”, and “the control elements, each of which are crafted from a single piece of brass and then plated with chrome … slowly extend from the marble housing.”
Sennheiser announces €50,000 headphones (we checked, no typos)
The purest of all audio, shielded from the chaos and disruption of the outside world, is now ready to emerge from the heart of the monument.
It ascends through the silver-plated copper cable, chosen for its optimum conductivity, and when it flows from the ear cups, a sound of a purity never before experienced is born. The hypoallergenic and breathable ear cups, hand-made in Germany, and of genuine leather, ensure the highest possible comfort that allows the listener to immerse themselves entirely in an audio experience that is itself a monument to sound.
Sennheiser - Reshaping excellence
The forthcoming “Orpheus” model boasts silver-plated copper cable and “gold-vaporized ceramic electrodes and platinum-vaporized diaphragms … exactly 2.4 µ thick, the result of extensive research that shows that any thinner or thicker would be sub-optimal.” The accompanying amplifier boasts “comes from Carrara in Italy and is the same type of marble that Michelangelo used to create his sculptures.
The tubes “rise from the base and start to glow”, and “the control elements, each of which are crafted from a single piece of brass and then plated with chrome … slowly extend from the marble housing.”
Sennheiser announces €50,000 headphones (we checked, no typos)
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Yes but:
"The foundation on which the perfect sound experience rests: perfect silence. At the heart of the monument to sound is a vault of pure silence, locked in with Sennheiser technology and heavily guarded against interference of any kind. The lowest harmonic distortion ever measured in a sound reproduction system, patent-applied-for circuit design that combines the best of tube and transistor amplifiers, and the quartz barrel around the tubes all eliminate acoustic noise from the outside world. Leaving you to enjoy perfect sound against the perfect backdrop."
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
A couple of decently sized hi-fi speakers hooked up to an amp gives me plenty of bass response and enough overall noise that I haven't yet dared to turn the volume knob on the amp up more than half-way. Mind you I do sit in right front of the damn things most of the time, since I use them for PC speakers.
I'm no audiophile if this thread is anything to go by, but I do wonder why anyone bothers using small speakers or cheap earphones. That tinny shriek that issues forth from such devices does absolutely no justice to any form of audio worth listening to.
I'm no audiophile if this thread is anything to go by, but I do wonder why anyone bothers using small speakers or cheap earphones. That tinny shriek that issues forth from such devices does absolutely no justice to any form of audio worth listening to.
I only heard them once but was very impressed by the fullness of sound offered by a small pair of active M-Audio monitors. Though these may be much larger than the small speakers to which you refer!
Totally agree about tinny earphones though! I got my lad a decent pair of Sennheisser's (£20 btw!) and I berate him if I catch him listening to music on earphones!
Totally agree about tinny earphones though! I got my lad a decent pair of Sennheisser's (£20 btw!) and I berate him if I catch him listening to music on earphones!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Many models of smaller speakers use tuned ports to increase perceived bass.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Thirty six quid for a "treated" audiophile wall socket:
SuperSocket Double
And three thousand quid for a doo-dah that will give your CDs an electromagnetic once-over before playing!
DDE-1
SuperSocket Double
And three thousand quid for a doo-dah that will give your CDs an electromagnetic once-over before playing!
DDE-1
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
perhaps a cross post for "why the graun is going down the drain"
Lost in music: the world of obsessive audiophilia
twats.
Lost in music: the world of obsessive audiophilia
twats.
bi0boy
Power User
Most of the music these fools listen to isn't actually recorded with neodymium-yittrium washed platinum manifold interconnector ribbons, so surely when listening to Status Quo's Down Down on anything up from £6.99 PC speakers to that £457,250 Absolute Sound HiFi they shouldn't be able to detect additional nuances in anything other than the cranky studio gear that was originally used in the 1970s
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
TBF this thread has been much less entertaining since the self-proclaimed audiophiles scuttled off. The comments on there have some classics:
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Had a great conversation with a self professed audiophile today. Despite having started this thread I don't recall ever having a conversation with one before. We were talking about TVs before it went on to audiophiles and it went something like this:
Me: 'Yeah but a lot of claims for TVs is just marketing shit, same with audiophile stuff most of its bullshit'
Him: 'What kind of audiophile stuff?'
Me: 'Well take cable for instance, some are thousands of pounds and it makes no difference at all'
Him: 'No it does, I can hear the difference. Maybe not the thousands of pounds one but better cables really make a difference'
Me: 'You can't possibly tell until you do a double blind trial otherwise it's just placebo'
Him: 'I did. I changed the cables and I can hear the difference. People come in my house and I ask if they can hear a difference and they can'
Me: 'That's not double blind trial' (I go on to explain what one is)
Him: 'Yeah I know I just told you that's what I did when I change the cables and people can hear it in my place when I change the cables'
Me: (smirking now because I'm thinking of this thread) 'If you say so'
Him: 'You know what else makes a difference?'
Me: 'What?'
Him: 'Fuses'
Me: 'Fuses!? How!?'
Him: 'Yeah because it changes how the electricity flows through, the bass sounds wider and the tops aren't as tinny'
My Boss who's a former spark: 'That makes no sense as a fuse is just for saftey purposes'
Him: 'Nah straight up it makes a difference I can really hear' (he then goes on to outline different brands of fuses he has in his speakers and amp, what amp they are because that apparently makes a difference too and just how they affect the sound.)
All I could do was just smile and nod at this point. When he left I nearly pissed myself laughing with my boss.
Anyway, just wanted to share because thinking of this thread and that conversation made a boring night at work more entertaining
Me: 'Yeah but a lot of claims for TVs is just marketing shit, same with audiophile stuff most of its bullshit'
Him: 'What kind of audiophile stuff?'
Me: 'Well take cable for instance, some are thousands of pounds and it makes no difference at all'
Him: 'No it does, I can hear the difference. Maybe not the thousands of pounds one but better cables really make a difference'
Me: 'You can't possibly tell until you do a double blind trial otherwise it's just placebo'
Him: 'I did. I changed the cables and I can hear the difference. People come in my house and I ask if they can hear a difference and they can'
Me: 'That's not double blind trial' (I go on to explain what one is)
Him: 'Yeah I know I just told you that's what I did when I change the cables and people can hear it in my place when I change the cables'
Me: (smirking now because I'm thinking of this thread) 'If you say so'
Him: 'You know what else makes a difference?'
Me: 'What?'
Him: 'Fuses'
Me: 'Fuses!? How!?'
Him: 'Yeah because it changes how the electricity flows through, the bass sounds wider and the tops aren't as tinny'
My Boss who's a former spark: 'That makes no sense as a fuse is just for saftey purposes'
Him: 'Nah straight up it makes a difference I can really hear' (he then goes on to outline different brands of fuses he has in his speakers and amp, what amp they are because that apparently makes a difference too and just how they affect the sound.)
All I could do was just smile and nod at this point. When he left I nearly pissed myself laughing with my boss.
Anyway, just wanted to share because thinking of this thread and that conversation made a boring night at work more entertaining
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Cotton-insulated cables:
http://jupitercondenser.com/Cable/cotton-insulated-cable.html
Beeswax Capacitors:
http://jupitercondenser.com/cryo-ht-beeswax-paper-capacitors.htm
Shakti Hallograph Soundfield Optimizer:
Shakti Audio Hallograph Soundfield Optimizer (1 Pair)-Elusive Disc
Bahahaha I just searched for fuse to see how well it's been covered and of course it's been well covered. I saw this picture on my travels and nearly had a heart attack laughing so I thought it needed quoting again
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moody
Member of The Underground.
my old hifi set up used to consist of an arcam 7se amp, kef coda 7se speakers and a rega planner 2 deck and some half decent cables.
Listening to vinyl on this system was amazing, the way the speakers could pick out parts of songs ?i might overwise not of even noticed was really nice,
Now, i have a digital set-up as i fiddle about on my computer with music software, I have good quality active monitors (KRK rokits) and a nice soundcard. Whilst this achieves a very nice sound, especially with electronic tunes (great sound seperation), it's not quite the warm rich sound my hifi set up used to produce.
I actually need to get myself a half decent hifi set up, maybe something similar to the equipment I had before.
Can anyone recommend a simple set up, speakers, amp, deck?
II have a budget of around £700, speakers should be bookshelf size ideally, my kefs were and they sounded great.
Thanks.
Listening to vinyl on this system was amazing, the way the speakers could pick out parts of songs ?i might overwise not of even noticed was really nice,
Now, i have a digital set-up as i fiddle about on my computer with music software, I have good quality active monitors (KRK rokits) and a nice soundcard. Whilst this achieves a very nice sound, especially with electronic tunes (great sound seperation), it's not quite the warm rich sound my hifi set up used to produce.
I actually need to get myself a half decent hifi set up, maybe something similar to the equipment I had before.
Can anyone recommend a simple set up, speakers, amp, deck?
II have a budget of around £700, speakers should be bookshelf size ideally, my kefs were and they sounded great.
Thanks.
There are 2 things that will have the biggest impact on the sound: The speakers and the room that you are listening in.
Ideally, you'd want to audition several pairs of speakers in the room until you find ones that you like the best.
moody
Member of The Underground.
would quite happily get another pair of kefs, they did a coda 7 special edition . The standard 7s were really well received by the hifi press and I can tell you first hand that they sounded very nice.
I have had a look on ebay but they seem to be quite hard to come by these days.
If you like the sound of the KEF Coda 7s, there's a pair for £29.99 on ebay:
KEF Coda 7 Main / Stereo Speakers
moody
Member of The Underground.
great stuff, they have now been placed on my "watch list"
thanks a lot for that.
Can you recommend an amp to go with?
Had an arcam alpha before, wouldn't mind another but what other options are out there, budget of around 3/400, new or used?
muchos gracias, amigo!
Unless the amp is seriously fucked, it's not going to make much difference to the sound.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
The amp really doesn't matter that much, spend most of your money on the speakers.
bi0boy
Power User
What if it's not rythmically secure like this one is?
No wonder I can't dance.
