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Originally Posted by cess
All these people suggesting bose probably buy monster cables too.  There's a shitload of better companies for headphones and speakers than bose. |
Wow I hope I can hear a pair of those one day! It's really amazed me that the last few years all you see everywhere are these overpriced boomy Beats headphones. Companies like Sennheiser have been making
quality cans for decades, and yet all it took was branding and celebrity to get people to switch from the $0.50 ipod headphones they were "happy with" before? It just needed to be fashionable I guess.
Same thing with Bose, the most berated audio company in history. I haven't heard their headphones so I can't comment on them, but why do I need to hear them when like you say we have companies like Sennheiser, AKG, Fostex etc who specialize in headphones for professionals?
It's the difference between a RAW untouched image from a pro DSLR, and a "processed" image from a consumer camera. Maybe they look better at first glance, but the professional intends to do their tweaks intentionally on a case by case basis, not just apply the same processing settings to every image that comes out of the camera.
I have a pair of KRK Rokit 8's as my PC speakers, connected with 1/4" balanced TRS to my PC. Last week I added a set of Auralex isolation pads beneath the speakers to get them off my desk, because the desk vibrates and muddies the sound. It adds bass, but bass that isn't supposed to be there.