AudioPhiles are full of shit

[General Disarray]

But man, ask someone who was there for vynil. Sound systems back then were expensive as fuck and became a dick measuring contest for whoever had the best ones.

Yep. Had a huge vinyl collection (including picture discs from Metallica and Iron Maiden) and my folks had a nice selection as well. They had a good system for the time: a receiver with a floating dial & toggle switches, multi-platter capable turntable (you know, the kind that you could stack albums on and it would automatically drop the next after listening to the first? Old school shit). The cassette deck looked kinda like this; I forgot the brand though:

The last rack system I had was a Fisher Studio Standard I bought myself in the late-80's, a Big Deal. I had just gotten my first real job/apartment in a new city, and a co-worker put it on his credit card for me to pay off - it was that expensive for the time. It consisted of a digital tuner with preamp and equalizer, 3-way tower speakers, a 5-disc CD changer, a turntable and a dual cassette deck plus a remote that made it all work (whoever stole it didn't get the remote and that was the only way to turn it on because the master power button on the unit was broke lmao). I LOVED that thing. I sold/lost via moves all of my vinyl

Re/Investing in a new sound system makes little sense these days. I can deal with my laptop speakers and my midrange Sennheiser cans.

 

[Am I Very Wrong]

Sort of; what's the point of going through all that hassle if it's just to listen to nigger music?

 

[I'm Retarded?]

720p looks noticeably better than 480p, 1080p looks a little bit better than 720p, 4K looks barely better than 1080p.

1080, 1440, and 4K are extremely noticeable visual upgrades unless you're watching low-res media that's been run through a shitty upscaling filter. 4K TVs are bullshit because cable TV and streaming services almost exclusively serve up 720 or 1080 garbage even if you're paying for the 4K package and the TV just upscales it. sometimes it's even upscaled on the back-end, and then sold as native 4K media, because all media providers are unscrupulous shitheads and assume you're retarded.

Bass is for niggers, whites listen to headphones with good mids and soundstaging.

this is Spiritual Truth.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I bought a pair of Audio Technicas for sanity purposes. Needed headphones to drown background noise out. No regerts. Best decision I've made.

 

[skykiii]

Videophiles are the same way.

I don't discount that maybe some people have better vision or more sensitive hearing, but there comes a point where the returns diminish. Hell I felt this around the beginning of the HD era--while I can see the difference between a DVD and a bluray of the same movie, its usually not a big enough deal to make me wanna replace the DVD.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

my headphones work good but i would like some that go fully over my ear so nobody can hear my embarssing music tastes what do you recomend?

 

[Muttley]

There's a reason no one in the music industry is an "audiophile", or uses the term.
It's a buzzword to sell consumers bullshit.

A cheap pair of AKGs or Sennheiser studio headphones from 20 years ago will always be better than whatever faggy shit you bought for your computer.

 

[Muttley]

Videophiles are the same way.

I don't discount that maybe some people have better vision or more sensitive hearing, but there comes a point where the returns diminish. Hell I felt this around the beginning of the HD era--while I can see the difference between a DVD and a bluray of the same movie, its usually not a big enough deal to make me wanna replace the DVD.

The difference is that videophiles are just guys who like video.
Audiophiles are chumps who got taken for suckers. It's an entire market of suckers.

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with being particular about stuff. (For example, the sample rate of an SP-12 sounds real warm)
but you should never buy bullshit consumer grade audiophile gear

 

[Beautiful Border]

The difference is that videophiles are just guys who like video. Audiophiles are chumps who got taken for suckers.

Oh, there absolutely are videophiles spending $1000+ more than they need to for new OLED TVs for a marginally better picture over an LCD TV a fraction of the price.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

My AKG 701 headset is fantastic and not cripplingly expensive.

 

[paperwork]

ate lossless
ate monitors
ate graphic equalizers
ate headphone amps
ate fidelity

love music

simple as

 

[Muttley]

Oh, there absolutely are videophiles spending $1000+ more than they need to for new OLED TVs for a marginally better picture over an LCD TV a fraction of the price.

Does that make you a videophile though? I think that just makes you a normie whose REDY FER SUM FOOTBALL

Gonna be honest though I think OLED is much better

 

[The Connected Nose]

I don't even follow the audio/videophool community, and I've seen some outrageous bullshit.

• Hand-carved bamboo volume knobs (because somehow that "enhances tone and clarity") for $200
• Oxygen-free copper cables
• Hand-blown glass (sometimes ceramic) "cable lifters" at $300 a pop
• A fucking ETHERNET CABLE for $1,000....for a 5' cable. Oh but it had "direction marks to indicate correct direction for connecting the cable".... an arrow pointing both ways. Oh yeah, it's also "designed to thoroughly eliminate adverse effects from vibration and helps stabilize the digital transmission from occurrences of jitter and ripple."
• Obscenely overpriced HDMI cables for "optimum picture clarity"..... it's digital. It fucking works or it doesn't....

And that's just off the top of my head.

"Normal people listen to music. Audiophiles listen to stereos."

As for resolution, most of that is bullshit as well. Unless you have like a 70"+ TV, human visual acuity just isn't going to pick out the difference between 1080p and 4K, even with proper content. Where 4K does come in handy is on the production side. If you're producing for 1080p, but shooting at 4K, that gives you a nice chunk of wiggle-room if you need to re-frame a shot in editing.

 

[Standardized Profile]

hydrogenaudio.org used to be a good (skeptical) source for funny audiophile claims. I haven't really looked at the site in years. I think they were mostly interested in codecs, but they got into absurd hardware claims, too.

Videophiles are similar. Even a perfect human eyeball has finite acuity. Given a certain screen size and viewing distance, there is a point at which additional resolution won't be visible. I guess screen sizes have been growing continuously so there may be a need for more pixels, but I don't see myself upgrading to a 75" any time soon.

 

[Slimeball92A]

Pure mental illness. The guy who spent 100k on speakers to put in his tiny, acoustically dogshit apartment with an old ass FRIDGE running only a foot or so behind him.

 

[Named User]

Audiophiles claim to have enhanced ears but can’t differentiate between a perfect fifth and a minor third.

 

[Toolbox]

peak of audiophile autism with 3 thousand dollar headsets

Systems put together simply for headsets can get into the tens of thousands, and we're not even talking about full on speaker obsessors.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

Systems put together simply for headsets can get into the tens of thousands, and we're not even talking about full on speaker obsessors.

these people are so nuts they make pedophiles look normal

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

Yes. Audiophiles are full of shit. Not even reading the thread because I agree.

 

[seri0us]

these people are so nuts they make pedophiles look normal