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Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?

It's practical: Headphiles are audiophiles who don't have "room" in their lives for a proper speaker setup. After all, headphone shit now costs just as much as speaker shit.
- 12 (23.1%)
This question is ghey.
- 7 (13.5%)
Headphiles tends to be kids or young ones just getting started with audiophilia. Audiophiles tend to be old-farts who insist on spending huge amounts of money for the privilege of hearing poots from the double-bassoonist in the back of the orchestra.
- 3 (5.8%)
Is Tyll starting shit again?
- 7 (13.5%)
All of the above.
- 23 (44.2%)

Total Members Voted: 50

Voting closed: September 25, 2013, 07:51:23 PM


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Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« on: September 18, 2013, 07:51:23 PM »
Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2013, 08:22:13 PM »
As much as I want to come up with a clever reply...

Most of the " :-Z " faces I get from people when I talk to them about this headphone hobby is due to the concept of "okay... when you are listening to headphones, what else can you do??"

Being a bachelor and living in an apartment are two really good reasons why I don't have a bumpin' stereo system.
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2013, 08:23:32 PM »
Regarding Option #1:

You always hear people go on and on about how you can get a headphone system for a fraction of the price of an equivalent loudspeaker system. I for one think that's total BS. Especially if you're willing to DIY. Even if you set on buying finished, I think the options in terms of cheap loudspeakers (Audioengine, Vanatoo, those Pioneers) are only getting better and better while the headphone game seems to be going the opposite way in terms of value. What do you guys think? Where would you draw the line? Or is BS to even try to compare?
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2013, 10:39:13 PM »
Budget, living conditions and "preferences".

It all comes back to the music though...
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2013, 11:13:14 PM »
I voted all of the above but I only half agree with option 1.  I use headphones because I'd simply cause noise complaints every time I work on my computer and listen to music.  However I know could spend just as much/less on speakers as my headphone setup and have it sound just as good, plus not having to worry about comfort.

Room acoustics I approach as a hobby too, I love creating pretty diffusers and absorbers.

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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2013, 11:30:50 PM »
dunno, thought speakers were too much fussing about with. different experience. I like the more intimate presentation of headphones. but an oddly phrased question, headphiles are technically headphone audiophiles? just personal preferences/priorities between speakers and headphones? plenty of good speaker systems for smaller rooms or at desks.
I've always lived compactly and quite minimal in owning stuff, so headphones seems like a given to me. though I do listen to Emotiva speakers sometimes too nowadays... just for background music when I'm not sitting by the desk.
and they seem to be an easy re-sell if I decide to relocate!
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2013, 11:42:52 PM »
I read purrin's speaker thread and well fuck that. I failed high school Algebra.
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2013, 12:41:44 AM »
In my case and in the beginning, I got into headphones as a practical alternative to speakers. Did not. Want. To wake up. The kids. And could only watch something other than Thomas the Train when kids where asleep.

I found out however that my HD202 could do things better than my Mirage lo-fi-sats (specially dialog) and liked how they sounded for a fraction of the $. Later learned that stupid expensive cans where less stupid expensive than some of the "Hi-End" speakers (perhaps less marketing BS)... Could get a taste of full range planar magnetics and electrostats for less and without taking over the living room, or having fears of a little one tipping over a heavy tower over him/herself. Electrostatic/planar-magnetic kid size flowtron speakers scare me when little ones are running amok (their Mega-watt amps too).

As far as price, speaker stuff is usually bigger than headphone stuff... and I guess bigger means bettar and more $... Uber-anaconda cables, thousand pound speakers, Mega-watt amps,...

Still, I many times enjoy my shitty $500 living room speaker setup more (specially with movies w the family) than my shitty headphones... Less soundstage issues too. I may upgrade my speaker setup with some DIY stuff. We'll see.
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2013, 12:50:12 AM »
There's really no difference. I've had headphones throughout my audiophile journey at various times, even very on with Sennheiser HD540s?, STAX, vintage RS-1, etc. from my college days on. Whatever I use most often tends to gravitate upon my situation. The system (headphone or speaker) which is best setup will tend to get the most use. Right now it just happens to be speakers.

"no room" also implies conditions such as noise... bugging other ppl.
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Re: Poll: What, if anything, divides headphiles and audiophiles?
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2013, 01:07:08 AM »
Quote from: purrin on September 19, 2013, 12:50:12 AM
"no room" also implies conditions such as noise... bugging other ppl.

Yup. Audio solutions for different situations.
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