Phones on the head
Thursday, 26. November 2009, 16:41:50
Or as the case might be - phones raping you in the ears. Those Sennheiser 300-IIs feel like they're violating my ear canal every time I use them. But man, are they awesome. I bought them a couple of weeks back, to use with my mobile phone, since the headphones I had before kinda needed a change. And to prove that I am not just the typical Sennheiser fanboy - they were Senns as well and they sucked. No bass, poor sound isolation, you name it. Very comfy, but ultimately - nothing to prevent me from hearing the airplane engines roar.
What I did really mean to say though, was that you should be buying new headphones. No mater what the type is - circumaural, supraaural, in-ear, whatever. If you're using stock ones - change them. The single biggest upgrade you can do to any sound system is to change the crappy devices that actually produce the sound waves with something that can really do it. Sound source and amplifications have advanced to the level where, unless you mess something up, they're mostly all fairly good. On-board sound cards not included for the obvious reason that I can hear my friggin' mouse when I move it. How messed up is this?
But at any rate - crappy speakers and headphones can seriously cramp your style. The investment doesn't have to be big either, those Senns cost me nothing special and only now I do really want to listen to music on my phone. Before it was just a necessity, now it is a necessity, combined with awesome. I haven't even used them enough to know their true sound yet, but the moment you plug them in you go - aaaah, so that is how it's supposed to sound. Turns out my phone doesn't have a crappy sound output, it just didn't have anything to play it on. Hell, I even checked - the E51 has one of the top performance sound outputs, so there you have it. Gief more MP3 on the sound card and a plane to catch. I'll be all set.
Of course, the same applies to all devices. The same thing happened to me when I changed crappy PC speakers with a reasonable 2.1 system. The same thing happened when the yet-another-crappy headset @ work broke and I decided I'd spring the really reasonable amount I paid for my 212Pro headphones. The divine sound that came out of those cans, the bass I didn't know was there. Full of awesome.
Go download AsphaltChild - Ferried to Hell , find something good to listen to it on and observe the divine difference.
I'm not changing my Cerwin-Vegas though. Fuck that. They rule.
What I did really mean to say though, was that you should be buying new headphones. No mater what the type is - circumaural, supraaural, in-ear, whatever. If you're using stock ones - change them. The single biggest upgrade you can do to any sound system is to change the crappy devices that actually produce the sound waves with something that can really do it. Sound source and amplifications have advanced to the level where, unless you mess something up, they're mostly all fairly good. On-board sound cards not included for the obvious reason that I can hear my friggin' mouse when I move it. How messed up is this?
But at any rate - crappy speakers and headphones can seriously cramp your style. The investment doesn't have to be big either, those Senns cost me nothing special and only now I do really want to listen to music on my phone. Before it was just a necessity, now it is a necessity, combined with awesome. I haven't even used them enough to know their true sound yet, but the moment you plug them in you go - aaaah, so that is how it's supposed to sound. Turns out my phone doesn't have a crappy sound output, it just didn't have anything to play it on. Hell, I even checked - the E51 has one of the top performance sound outputs, so there you have it. Gief more MP3 on the sound card and a plane to catch. I'll be all set.
Of course, the same applies to all devices. The same thing happened to me when I changed crappy PC speakers with a reasonable 2.1 system. The same thing happened when the yet-another-crappy headset @ work broke and I decided I'd spring the really reasonable amount I paid for my 212Pro headphones. The divine sound that came out of those cans, the bass I didn't know was there. Full of awesome.
Go download AsphaltChild - Ferried to Hell , find something good to listen to it on and observe the divine difference.
I'm not changing my Cerwin-Vegas though. Fuck that. They rule.
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