Honestly speaking, I do not know how many pairs of headphones I have, but the number is certainly more than enough. However I still check ebay almost everyday for used headphones (old habit from India) and in last 10 days or so, there has been a LOT of great old headphones are popping up there ( also in Aukro/ Bazos etc....these are like olx of Czechia) at absolute throwaway prices (HD 598 for 30 EUR, M40 for 40 EUR, DT 770 for 45, DT990 for 48 and similar)
Initially thought these are scams.
However one particular seller is located within just <10 minutes drive, so I went and bought an absolutely brand new pair of M40 for 40 bucks.Over the weekend bought pairs of HD598, DT990 from a seller who agreed to deliver at my place and got them today morning. The seller was a high school kid who dropped the packages himself.
I literally asked the young man why is he selling such expensive equipment so cheap, looks like the younger generation is perfectly fine with wireless headphones and most phones these days don`t have 3.5mm audio out anyway, no one in his circle is interested in wired cans (the cans belonged to some of his dorm buddies).
I do have few BTNC headphones myself, while they are somewhat serviceable on the go, but absolute garbage when you want to actually enjoy music. I have those damn expensive PXC550 ( possibly the best relatively affordable BTNC cans) QC35 ( got them cheap, but they do not have any clarity whatsoever in the highs and upper mids) and the absolute rubbish XM3s (possibly the weirdest cans that I`ve come across, they try to upscale everything to sound punchy, dynamic, loosing all the character of the original music, I do understand this sound signature appeal to a lot of people, but they should have given an option to truly turn off all the DSP effects, but they did not, even after turning off all the bells and whistles some signal processing still color the sound, which is absolutely unacceptable)
Am I the only one who feels so strongly about the wired vs wireless audio? Any of you, technical gurus feel this way?
Back in the days we used izotope`s ozone to audition 128kbps mp3s before exporting the lossless version in final stages of mixing. Now people at izotope are probably developing SWs to audition the quality of Bluetooth codecs!! Strange time!!
Initially thought these are scams.
However one particular seller is located within just <10 minutes drive, so I went and bought an absolutely brand new pair of M40 for 40 bucks.Over the weekend bought pairs of HD598, DT990 from a seller who agreed to deliver at my place and got them today morning. The seller was a high school kid who dropped the packages himself.
I literally asked the young man why is he selling such expensive equipment so cheap, looks like the younger generation is perfectly fine with wireless headphones and most phones these days don`t have 3.5mm audio out anyway, no one in his circle is interested in wired cans (the cans belonged to some of his dorm buddies).
I do have few BTNC headphones myself, while they are somewhat serviceable on the go, but absolute garbage when you want to actually enjoy music. I have those damn expensive PXC550 ( possibly the best relatively affordable BTNC cans) QC35 ( got them cheap, but they do not have any clarity whatsoever in the highs and upper mids) and the absolute rubbish XM3s (possibly the weirdest cans that I`ve come across, they try to upscale everything to sound punchy, dynamic, loosing all the character of the original music, I do understand this sound signature appeal to a lot of people, but they should have given an option to truly turn off all the DSP effects, but they did not, even after turning off all the bells and whistles some signal processing still color the sound, which is absolutely unacceptable)
Am I the only one who feels so strongly about the wired vs wireless audio? Any of you, technical gurus feel this way?
Back in the days we used izotope`s ozone to audition 128kbps mp3s before exporting the lossless version in final stages of mixing. Now people at izotope are probably developing SWs to audition the quality of Bluetooth codecs!! Strange time!!
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