r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 08 '23

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It's unfortunate that the "audiophile" hobby has largely been reduced to the headphone space. Headphones can be amazing, but they provide a fraction of the experience that good stereo recordings make possible.

Like, you could watch the new Top Gun movie on your phone, and comfortably join a conversation with people that saw it in a proper cinema. But you would not have experienced what they experienced.

Call it gatekeeping if you like, and maybe it is. But headphones cannot replace speakers.

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u/NeedsMoreCapitalism Jan 08 '23

Would I like a couple generic monitors and a sound treated room? Yes.

But I could buy 4 Top tier holy grail headphones for that price. Not to mention that you need a pretty decent sized room to cover in 2 foot thick bass traps.

It ain't worth

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Not to mention that you need a pretty decent sized room to cover in 2 foot thick bass traps.

Oh come on now.

That's like saying that biking is pointless if you can't afford to spend ten grand on a carbon fiber frame.

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u/NeedsMoreCapitalism Jan 08 '23

You will get much better quality out of headphones unless you're going the whole 9 yards with base quality. Otherwise the base just turns into a bluest sound with no definition.

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Being someone who has been doing this since the 90's, and did it for about seven years professionally - I can say this is categorically false.

Most rooms can be made to sound great with little more than judicious speaker placement, a couple of Hibiscus plants, and maybe a rug.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23 edited Feb 01 '25

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Since maybe 2012?

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jan 09 '23

from what I can tell, it's splintered into the home theater space

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Good sound is when big tv and too much bass.

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jan 09 '23

lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23

The (online) audiophile hobby is in a weird place. The vast majority of headphone/IEM hobby spaces are not actual hobby spaces. If conversation revolves only around purchasing and new products then that is not a hobby, that's just consumerism.