It's a sad day when I get BMed for saying the Shure 940 has bad bass response and the Hd700 has crappy treble spikes.
Guess it's a good time to leave /r/headphones
it's the internet. hell, it's reddit. i wouldn't take their BMing to heart, nor see it as indicative of that subreddit as a whole.
It's that a lot of these comments are delusional or completely ignorant. Basing their own opinion of a product from someone else's opinion who had 10 seconds with it and has no comparison for headphones.
Or they've convinced themselves of the opposite so they can rationalize the purchase. The number of times I've heard of "X headphones being the TOTL killer" is insane.
I recently got to audition the SA5000 from Sony which is supposed to be an HD800 killer and it was not even a contest. The only thing I'd say is maybe the sa5000 had a sweeter treble but the rest of the frequency range was far too lacking in quality.
Ugh
Sorry for the rant. Just annoyed by rampant ignorance.
The same can be said of head-fi. I actually think /r/headphones is better in this respect.
At the end of the day, it's just a guy/girl taking advantage of anonymity to act like an ass to overcome other shortcomings in their life. I find that this mindset helps me get over this stuff.
I tend to ignore the big circle jerk threads in headfi.
All those "appreciation" threads.
I'll just join in on discussion threads and such.
There's also a huge elitist mindset among a portion of the members there.
Discussing the AK240 with other owners they don't even see the AK240 as "high end" anymore because the 380 is out...
Weird to see this kind of classification but then again, I bought Alpha Dogs as budget headphones at some point...
On /r/headphones I really don't see any elitism. Most members there seem to just own a a few headphones, if even, and base all their knowledge of other headphones on reviews =\