Yeah I agree with using price, I was mainly saying that we couldn’t come up with grouping names last time (that most agreed with)
tru if we get rid of the names it’s much better cause naming price points make people who have budget gear invalidated
or people in general who like to think they have certain levels of gear. like the words lofi and midfi in this conotation is very misleading
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Yeah, and for each person the summet fi or hifi might be at different price points
exactly and with cans where people claim to punch waaay above it’s price point those titles get really blurry too
Best all-rounder I’ve heard in terms of the sound and build, etc. is my ZMF Aeolus with universe suede pads. It’s pretty neutral, but with a bump in the bass and mids to keep them exciting instead of just flat neutral. Pretty forgiving of not so very well produced music and seems great with everything so far. Build is amazing, feel solid, comfortable, leather strap and the pillowy suede pads. Soundstage is average, imaging is fine. Instruments and vocals sound natural. I got them for < $1000, but they’d be > $1200 if bought normally. Also by pad rolling, you can make the headphone sound ‘really dark’, ‘fun’, or ‘even more neutral to the point of boring, if that’s your thing’.
I’d reccommend the blon bl-03 if you replace its stock cable and tips, it’s like $40 and handles all genres well to me. I feel similar about the tinhifi p1, but you need good foam tips and decent power to drive it well. It’s neutral and detailed, also pretty good for everything.
no RG…no prices. if someone things there is only one option and it’s $500, they can say it. if some think there is more than one at different price points, they can share those.
I was proposing price ranges for organisation sales and you know people have different budgets and such
I can see a disagreement as to where summit-fi might start. I can see it being as low as $2000 and up to $3000 and up.
I personally would define lo-fi as $100 and lower while mid-fi to hi-fi would be $101 to $999 with the point mid becomes hi being harder to agree upon.
I forget the term at the moment, but there is another ‘-fi’ between hi and summit…which would fit the $1000 - $2000 / $3000 range, though I would lean on the lower as I am certain the Stellia should be classified as summit-fi.
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I honestly don’t see whats wrong with that. I was just trying to define the lo fi midfi, hifi titles cause they are really not defined
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well RG, I’m actually trying to get as few recommendations as possible…to find the real wunderkind cans. th one’s that stand out above the rest for the particular reason they do everything better than everyone else; perhaps even headphones that are substantially more.
well for budget options I will just throw out the 880 for wide soundstage all rounder and for intimate all rounder the 58x are my votes
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I know it’s old, but I found them (the free earbuds with Samsung phones) super harsh, and also the build sucks because the filters fell out because they were glued on, and the right piece is at lower volume now than the left one, so something broke lol. Decent sound but not very durable. Also the fit was horrible.
Interesting. I thought they are pretty ok when I heard them. They were the akg tuned ones right?
Yep. AKG on the them. They were 10 dollars or something I think.
so to my knowledge those cost 75, and in amazon there are some sold cheap like 10-20 bucks but all the reviews say those are fake since, again, the real ones are quite expensive at 75 or so
Really? I think the ones I got were really cheap. They were made out of cheap plastic. The ones I see online are nice metal. Definitely not the same. I think AKG just puts their name on them.
there are a lot of headphones made out of plastic that are on the level of epic. Stax is a good example.
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Close… mine were darker and had a smaller remote.