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Five Worst Pieces of Audio Gear You've Heard (Members Only)
burnspbesq:
Sony PHA-1
Original Beats Solo
Old Bose noise-canceling headphone (don't remember the model number)
Phiaton MS-400
Benchmark DAC1
dreamwhisper:
I thought the DT880 sounded lifeless and boring.
Denon AH-D5000 Markl Modded. LOL the sound signature of a circus tent. And the depressed looking elephant walking around is the bass. The stressed out midget on it's back is the treble. What a precarious situation.
Bel Canto DAC3. EW. Where is the musicality, the inner layering, the detail.
Lavry DA10. What an awkward attempt at neutrality.
Benchmark DAC1. Who is shattering glass while I'm trying to listen to these speakers.
Greed:
Fun!
1) Sennheiser HD700 - Oh shit is that blood coming from your ear? Na they ain't that bad. No they really are, total poo
2) Chord Hugo (yes, I'm so sorry but I did own one... one of the biggest regrets of my life) - Craptastic amp stage. Clean and clear gives the illusion of something hi-end but after awhile you crave emotion. Looks like a POS, horrible build and packaging. When I have a kid, I'll let them know that Chord is looking for applicants to design their Hugo 2. About 2K overpriced, yea enjoy it. Lifeless, boring, like one of those monotone professors that you are forced to listen to because they are the only one that teaches upper-division bio. :vomit:
3) JH Roxanne - Who is the idiot who came up with the idea that more drivers = better sound quality? I'd like to met the man and ask for tips how to rip people off.
4) Ultrasone - Named the brand because everything I've heard from them has been funky sounding. Get rid of that S-Logic crap, kthx.
5) Sony MDR-XB500 - Wub Wub
Tari:
Worst piece of gear factoring in price/reputation was this:
Albert von Schweikert’s $140k seven-driver, ribbon/cone hybrid VR100 XS, paired with two of Albert’s Shockwave subwoofers and bi-amped by Kronzilla tubes on top and Channel Islands Class D on the subs TAS considered them best in show contenders. They punctured my eardrums at like 70dB
Worst component I've ever owned in my system was a Devialet 120. Flat when omitting, shrill beyond anything I've heard. (especially when paired with ceramic drivers.) Imagine all the GS-X's perceived flaws magnified 5x.
Original meridian explorer suffered from the opposite kind of issue. Mushy sound, wooly bass, it was like listening to music submerged in a vat of jello.
Most disappointing headphone/amp combo was a pair of HE60's I bought from Spritzer that he did some kind of dustcover mod and retermination on. I'm not incriminating the headphone itself as it was probably the mods that rendered the highs piercing and shrill and the rest of the sound very anemic, save for the dynamic-like punch. Sold both headphones and amp to blue, even though he knew what I thought of them. He sold them both too.
Ultrasone Pro 900. It was a while back and its almost beating a dead horse at this point, but man were these bad. No cyclical love/hate cycle can change this headphone from feeling like an anechoic chamber that slowly sucks your ability to hear into the walls while you listen to alternately dead and shrill EDM as that's the only kind of music anyone has ever claimed these can sound passable with.
Marvey:
Tari, you've been holding out on us. You never told me you owned the Deviant stuff. Didn't I warn peeps? Or was it already too late.
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