On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:29:36 -0800,
wrote
(in article ):
This is the new reality. This is the new normal in being an audiophile.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/bu...xpand-dr-dres-
bus
iness-world.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Nah, this really has nothing whatsoever to do with "being an audiophile".
This is the same mentality that gives us the small Japanese coupe that you
can "feel" coming down the street from blocks away; the incessant, gut
wrenching, sickening, 80 Hz, one-note, thump that causes the auto from which
this disgusting sound emanates to literally blur with each beat while some
mindless ghetto troubadour tries to see how long of a laundry list of words
that rhyme with "ho" that he can string together before taking a breath. Just
as rap and hip-hop don't meet the minimum standards for the definition of
music for most of us, these brain and ear-numbing "thumper" systems
(including these new headphones) don't meet the minimum requirements for
being called audiophile systems either. They may give their
quickly-becoming-deaf owners a great deal of pleasure with their 120 dB+
sound levels inside the car, but they can hardly be called high-fidelity.