Well, my T1 amp has a sound that is reminiscent of chopped nuts mixed into warm chocolate with a rich creamy latte feel in the bass and a tingle at the top. Just a squeeze of lemon to pull out those ringing cymbals and hear not just the splash but the brassy gong sound behind it. The bass is more than one note and I can clearly hear the rumble of syrup oozing through the layers of sound that drip from my earpieces.

Lots of PRAT too. 

Nothing wrong with that. 

"The Absolute Sound"? The name alone is for me pretentious enough to just skip the entire magazine...

In the Netherlands there's this newspaper called "De Volkskrant" which in English translates to something like 'The Peoples Paper', a socialist newspaper. For some time I read it but opinion and comment articles/columns became more and more preachy. Even satirical pieces became unbearable thus I declared the newspaper wasted paper.

I now mostly read business newspapers because those are more to the point.

Nonsensical audio terms... I used that 'vocabulary' because I didn't know better. Once you learn to listen and start listening you don't need many words to express what you think of a headphone. The moment you ignore it like a piece of trash you know enough. I do like the term "musical" but I refrain from using it because I can't explain it.

'You're not amping it properly' has always been a nonsensical statement that's a pet peeve of mine.  What does that even mean? 

Outside of the few atrocious amps and infamously hard to drive headphones (HE-6) out there, there's plenty of well sounding amps with higher amounts of refinement the further up you go.  Never have I heard a case where something isn't 'amp'd properly.'  Usually it's people hawking about a lack of synergetic sound signatures between two perfectly good components.

My most recent experience was a fellow on head-fi who remarked in a thread regarding a Denon D2000 and lack of bass saying that it was because the topic creator was using bad amps-- and instead of a Fiio E11 of Xonar soundcard, to get a Fiio E9 and all his problems would be solved.

That actually makes sense.  The E9 has 10ohms and 43ohms output Z depending on 1/4 or 1/8.  Denon is like around 32 ohms right?  Hello bass.

Quote from: omegakitty on January 17, 2013, 10:49:24 PM

Blacker blacks.
Always liked that one 

We talkin' music or politics?

The former. I'm just amused when a reviewer uses that phrase. Replacing black with grey would be more accurate, since black is an absolute shade.