Trolling head-fi again.

All joking aside I’d hate those if I could afford them. Over 10dB swing in the response for “tuning” is not going to work for both orchestral/choral, pipe organ, jazz trio and arena rock. That bias hump/dip will affect everything put through it.

No friggin thanks jackass.
 
The three aspects I quoted in my head-fi post are some of the most questionable I've ever seen for any headphones, ever.

  • $38k
  • 'Best ear in the business' - (hilarious) which derives from head-fi reviewer 'Goldensound', which in turn derives the endorsment name/moniker for this set;
  • 'Golden sound'

The whole value-proposition is retarded beyond comprehension.
Product development has been an integral part of my career but I've never seen anything as balls-out spurious, presumptious and entitled as this!

My only conclusion is that they're trying to hang on to the coat-tails of the Sennheiser Orpheus system that was doing the rounds of headphone shows for the past couple of years. That's a $50k system where true, somewhat verifiable and somewhat value-driven engineering and development has gone into it by a well known and established company. Still, $50k though?
For reference:

Warwick are asking $38k for their set with a headphone that has electrostatic drivers (really nothing new there and probably only mildly 'developed' to suit the design, adorned with nasty, tacky -looking gold bits and endorsed by 'Goldenshowers' ... whoops, I mean 'Goldensound' and an amp/DAC that looks like a generic Chinesium box with what looks like a really shitty, small Chinesium OLED screen with crap graphics and internals/electronics which propose nothing new or ground-breaking.

Idiots will buy it.
 
Chris Cables said:
Idiots will buy it....
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Ach, De meeste idioten die allang rijp zijn voor een gehoorapparaat kopen / geloven in dit soort rotzooi.

Ga godverdomme muziek luisteren met je oren, en vooral met je gevoel.

Most people at an age (and probably with a hearing problem according to their age) with too much money will buy this kind of
crap perhaps..



Waste of time.
 
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Sidenote to my last post (and strictly personal from my point of view) :

Most of the people with a big mouth (again: at an age with a hearing problem) can't play a single note on an instrument or haven't seen a decent recording studio to work in, so I'm getting a bit bored about this kind of bullshit on forums you reffering to, with mostly nerds as members...
 
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You know my stand.

like you I’ve done my time on the field, on stage, in the studio etc and I know how instruments are supposed to sound. Don’t feed me a frequency response curve that looks like a seismograph output and tell me it’s tuned. It might sound “pleasant” with a target tune but complete crap otherwise.

And it’s not a subtle bump! That swing is TEN DECIBELS!!!!! Massive! That’s possibly worse than the response curve of the computer speakers on my desk!
 
Well, I didn't get a ban, suprisingly. My post was removed though, predictably, along with a couple of other negative-leaning posts from others..
Lame.

Also, predictably, comparisons are being made with the Sennheiser set.
Imo they're not even in the same ballpark and I haven't even listened to the GoldenShowers set! The HE1 which I have listened to when I visited Tullamore actually sounds glorious while the GoldenShowers FR curve looks like it would sound like listening through two toilet roll tubes.
 
Hey I'll sell you my 300B headphone amp for $1500 and I'll throw in the Grados free! Questionable build quality and a high noise floor for a fraction of the price! Will also drive any dynamic type headphone lol
 
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