I couldn't figure a better place to ask this basic question but so forgive me but uhh... how exactly do the karma and the star system work?

Kirosia, methinks you have described the plot to a cancelled tv series.

Who exactly do you think you are, with this accusation? Some forlorn pie baker who plays detective on his off-days?

I couldn't figure a better place to ask this basic question but so forgive me but uhh... how exactly do the karma and the star system work?

We like having fun.  Karma is part of that and will continue be until someone ruins it.  Stars are for level (swabbie, ABS, etc).  We don't take that stuff too seriously though.  I know a guy who got in an argument with his wife and she called him out on his BS and he remembers yelling at her "how could you say that to me?! Don't you know I'm an admin on an online forum!"  He didn't realize until that point how caught up in his own carefully constructed online pompousness he was.  At the end of the day we're all sitting on keyboards typing until we logoff and have to live in jecklin floats reality.

If you want karma, go to a strip club.

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Kirosia, that's not the first time you've described your life as Rambo.

Arrr, I forgot to introduce myself in this thread it seems. Pox on me.
So, hello there and all that.

Being the pirate is like being balanced on a point of a blade, between objective and subjective. Those that do not keep the balance get cut.
That's why I like applying objective methods to quantify the subjective and subjective methods to evaluate objective quantities. (or, if you will, algorithms)
Obviously, we can then apply statistics to turn subjective evaluations into objectivity if our sample size is large enough and varied enough (which can be also quantified objectively).
This is why we need more pirates. (and possibly kittens)

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to introduce myself. I have been into the headphone hobby for about a year. Like others I started off reading head-fi and made many disappointing purchases based on "head-fi hype". I started viewing this site mostly for headphone measurements to better understand what I was hearing. Funny enough I have many headphones that have been measured here. I consider myself somewhere in between the objective and subjective. Some of my headphones don't measure well and I still enjoy them.

Welcome!