people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

[tom66]

Re: people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

Hah... I'm working on a project at work -- it's a headphone amplifier. The specification states a certain chipset to be used -- in order to achieve ~0.000003% THD+N. I have to follow the customer's specification, but that kind of figure is insane. Research shows that the majority of people cannot hear beyond 1% and the limit is 0.1% for essentially everyone. But, the audiophools will buy it!

[momaka]

Re: people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

could it be that it doesnt matter if they suck since the target customer is half deaf anyway?

Nah. My hearing isn't all that great anymore, but I can still hear the difference between crappy and good headphones. I think goontron pretty much answered it with the title - people are just ignorant (if sheep sounds too harsh ).

your post didnt seem to typed sarcastically by the way.

Any post with Justin Beiber mentioned should never be considered seriously

Research shows that the majority of people cannot hear beyond 1% and the limit is 0.1% for essentially everyone.

Not doubting you at all, but do you have any links to the articles containing this research? I'm just interested in reading it since I am probably with that 1%-insensitive majority. The headphone amp I build out of that TV amplifier states 0.3% typical distortion, but with a PC that properly drives it, I don't really hear any distortion. Hissing - yes.

I also built a simple class A headphone amp a few weeks ago out of general purpose transistors and it sounded quite fine IMO (but more on that in a future thread ).

[turbozutek]

Re: people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

that is what got me going audiophool, why becus the "engineering" part dont make any sense it's a project started in 2007 and some how it is better engineered than something that has been revised since the 30's, questionable at best.

The 'engineering' part was also sarcasm. Dr Dre lent his name to a brand for money: that's his contribution, he sold out to punt a product.

You should recalibrate your sarcasm detector, as my last post was set to 'blatant'.

Chris...

[goontron]

Re: people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

hmm guess i shouldn't post at midnight.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

I got free 6"x9"'s from the junk yard and put them in cabinets.

The only problem with vehicular speakers, is that they're 4 ohms and the like and I think I caused the death of a Soundesign amp, albeit it was cheap, anyways!

Lower ohms=more amperes!

I suspect I accidentally killed a Soundesign single-speaker system with a car speaker in a box.

I very recently got 2 Polk VT60 speakers and put them in a box! 2 boxes with 1 each in them. Heard that most of the wood was repurposed from an armoire!

And I don't regret that! (Unlike 6"x9"s or the like!)

It's now known as the "speakers made for ceilings in a box project", as they are rated at 8 ohms, the most common rating for home receivers.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

I suspect I accidentally killed a Soundesign single-speaker system with a car speaker in a box.

It was a karaoke system. LOL!

[momaka]

Re: people are sheep when it comes to beats audio!

^ You do realize this is a 7-year old thread that's been dead with no purpose?? :|
Granted it was revived by a spammer... but still.