Quote from: TMRaven on February 15, 2014, 07:56:22 PM

This thing's being labeled as one of the most accurate and truthful headphones on HF by some optimistic followers.   

Oh you mean like the DT48?

Ah...  Dale ....

THD plots (aside from 3.5kHz and 6kHz peaks) seem to show the noise floor of the used pre-amp rather than distortion levels.
These could be much lower.

Yes, dunno about that. However, to some extent I kind of agree w this other post:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/633514/martin-logan-mikros-90-on-ear-headphones/945#post_10245219

From memory, the HP50 definitively has more bass quantitiy, while the Mikros 90 seems more forward and extended in the treble. As far as bass definition, the little that it's there does sound somewhat clean to my ears. It might complement well an HP50... sort of the anti-basshead can.

Not sure what to make about the driver imbalance though.

Took a look at that thread.

Off topic, but what's up with these "discovery threads" and people---I'm assuming younger, less experienced people---posting tons and tons of animated GIFs to try and communicate their experience? Was kind of novel at first as an occasional punctuation point, but damn these guys are like:

At first I was <WHY U NO PIC> but then I was <TROLLFACE PIC> and now with these mods it's like <BRUCE LEE PIC> and wow these mods <MINDBLOWN PIC>.

...seriously makes my brain hurt. I hope this is not the future of this hobby.

Yeah, you're probably right. I've seen it around in other places too though, like the anime thread, and I think it's part of a larger shift away from written posting what with tumblr and image boards like "the Chans" becoming such predominant factors in Internet culture. Livejournal and written blogs in general are becoming less fashionable.

Yeah, I think emotional shorthand is on the right track. It's significant from a psycho-analytic perspective that these images are in effect acting out the emotional responses, feeling for you so to speak. Much in the same way a laugh track isn't just telling you what's funny but also "laughing for you," so you can just sit and vegetate in front of the screen. In this hobby of ours there's a strong desire to make connections to others and somehow experience what others are hearing in an otherwise isolated event of listening via headphones. This way folks can participate without actually moving from their seats and going to meets. It's the same underlying mechanism behind unboxing videos: someone sees an unboxing and lives the experience of consumerism through the person making it.

I think it's also significant that most of these GIFs are cultural references and symbology in and of themselves, so there's this added meme subtext. It's a sort of comforting familiarity and further means of belonging to a particular subculture.