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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I like the Skullcandy in-ear, but only use them for short periods, because my ears don't like anything in them.

I may have to invest in a set of Bose noise-canceling cans so I can listen to anything for more than half an hour or so.

The noise-canceling cans I have now do not do well in airplanes, which is the main reason I bought them. Then again, I got what I paid for...
 
I don't know much about headphones, I prefer actual speakers, but from what I've absorbed on the AV forums, these guys get high marks for bang for your buck quality.

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To me Bose is as bad as Beats as far as being a marketing machine that sells inferior products for inflated prices. Their headphones might be ok, but their speaker packages are overpriced junk. There's a saying on the audiophile forums: "no highs, no lows, must be Bose". lol
 
Dngrsone said:
I like the Skullcandy in-ear, but only use them for short periods, because my ears don't like anything in them.
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I don't like in-ear-monitors much, same reasons don't like anything stuck right in the canal. Also found them to be terrible for air travel with the pressurization, my ears are already popping enough.

Dngrsone said:
I may have to invest in a set of Bose noise-canceling cans so I can listen to anything for more than half an hour or so.

The noise-canceling cans I have now do not do well in airplanes, which is the main reason I bought them. Then again, I got what I paid for...
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In aircraft, it's really the constant low-frequency from the engines you want to suppress, especially if you're sat towards the rear. And that's what I found the Bose do so well, as well as the inevitable crying babies of course. The tinny $1 things that the airlines hand out and want back(except for Aeroflot), are completely useless for keeping out noise.


BTW hands-up anyone who's flown with Aeroflot? They're actually modern these days, all new Boeing and Airbus fleet, no Ilyushins and Tupolevs at all.
 
Gmash said:
I don't know much about headphones, I prefer actual speakers, but from what I've absorbed on the AV forums, these guys get high marks for bang for your buck quality.

HiFiMAN Innovating the art of listening - Products : HiFiMAN

To me Bose is as bad as Beats as far as being a marketing machine that sells inferior products for inflated prices. Their headphones might be ok, but their speaker packages are overpriced junk. There's a saying on the audiophile forums: "no highs, no lows, must be Bose". lol
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As a certified pro audio technician, I'm amazed at the comments directed toward Bose. Bose systems are for the discriminating audiophile, where a 'flat' mix is more preferable than systems with heavy bass and sizzling highs. No matter the recording, you can hear all of the instruments in a Bose system, with a clarity and a sense of the room(s) used in the recording. Any audio engineer worth his or her salt will tell you, when it comes to frequencies: "It is always better to cut, than to boost." Love you guys (and gals) - LW
 
LOveWerks said:
As a certified pro audio technician, I'm amazed at the comments directed toward Bose. Bose systems are for the discriminating audiophile, where a 'flat' mix is more preferable than systems with heavy bass and sizzling highs. No matter the recording, you can hear all of the instruments in a Bose system, with a clarity and a sense of the room(s) used in the recording. Any audio engineer worth his or her salt will tell you, when it comes to frequencies: "It is always better to cut, than to boost." Love you guys (and gals) - LW
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You can't be serious. Look up some measured frequency response graphs for a Bose system and you'll see anything but a flat response. They bounce sound around the room to make them sound bigger, but they are not accurate. They don't even have tweeters, and their "bass module" is a joke.

The 901s have some fans, but I doubt you'll ever see them used as studio monitors.
 
Gmash said:
You can't be serious. Look up some measured frequency response graphs for a Bose system and you'll see anything but a flat response. They bounce sound around the room to make them sound bigger, but they are not accurate. They don't even have tweeters, and their "bass module" is a joke.

The 901s have some fans, but I doubt you'll ever see them used as studio monitors.
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Bose, like many other manufacturers, use 'waveguide' technology to achieve their goals. The inside of their latest tabletop system looks like a labyrinth of tunnels for the speakers to achieve their sound. However, these are systems that are meant for -10 dbv listeners, not +4 (or greater) dbu... I agree with you that near or mid-field monitoring necessitate having active woofers and tweeters; but, for the home listener, Bose does a good job. Bose accomplishes this with more smaller speakers (that are rated to 20 kHz at -10, weighted rating) to get the job done. If it were up to me, I'd have powered Mackie monitors hanging at 15
 
[FONT="Tahoma'][SIZE="2"]A quick addendum about Bose 901s: if you have a small-to-mid size club, 901s really shine. Due the array of small speakers, you have more than enough speaker surface area to handle the low freqs, and the ohm rating makes them very amp-friendly. The dual ports allow centralized air movement, and they are very accurate with 'program music', like being side-chained from a band mixer's stereo or dual mono aux. That design has been around for a long time, but it still works - LW[/FONT][/SIZE]
 
I drove my og 901s from a Phase Linear 700B, very popular combo back then.

901s, like most every speaker, sound exactly the way they're designed.

True, you don't necessarily need larger drivers when you have more of them.

But -

Dispersion is a function of wavelength vs driver diameter - 901 drivers beam rather than disperse above around 3 kHz. The wall reflection is designed to address that except wall reflections destroy phase integrity.

The smaller drivers would have wanted to over-travel their magnetic linear regime, so you cure that with a small enclosure and over-damping (high total Q) the system. That sets up the danger of cone resonances overpowering higher frequencies - the bane of full-range electrodynamic designs.

So, you cure that with equalization, and they did.

And then you address it all with raw horsepower, hence the Phase Linear and 350 watts/channel.

Later, a more efficient ported design happened - along with the total system Q change and the midbass bump just above the port frequency, that acted to cause a drop before air pressure made it act like a sealed cabinet again.

What works best for sound reinforcement in public is often the opposite of what best for audiophiles in a home and vice versa.

Then comes personal taste. And there's no accounting for taste! :D :rofl:

I tend to not recommend Bose because I also think they're overpriced.

That said -

I have a pair of their full cup noise cancelling headphones (agree completely with Mike, best for low frequencies nearer the engines - and I have the over the ear Sony cancelling job that does far better at higher frequencies when I'm sitting near the front lol).

I have a Bose 3-2-1 system in the bedroom, subwoofer and two small satellites, with a lot of processing to simulate surround sound - and that actually does a helluva job. I took the floor set on the model changeover and saved hundreds though. Love it for what it is and the job it does, hated it at the retail price.

Finally - I have a Bose ie-2 headset and that's the most comfortable thing I've ever worn. Fixed by equalization on my rooted phone (Viper4Android ftw). Paid $40 instead of a hundred because they were screwing up my phone sale and the manager was a people person.

I guess for someone who doesn't like their gear, I've got a good share of it. :D
 
When it comes to on thear headphones i use JBL no noise cancelling though, i would not buy a pair of Beats because like alot of us i think they are overrated and can't see spending my hard worked money on them.

When it comes to Gaming my headphones are Turtle Beach .
 
Bearsyzf said:
When it comes to on thear headphones i use JBL no noise cancelling though, i would not buy a pair of Beats because like alot of us i think they are overrated and can't see spending my hard worked money on them.

When it comes to Gaming my headphones are Turtle Beach .
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Guess I'm showing my age, because I'm not much of a gamer... I will Google'em, though - LW
 
Dngrsone said:
Turtle Beach has been the standard for quality computer sound for decades.
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I've recently moved over to computer-based recording (PreSonus), and, I've used a pair of KRKs out of the headphone jack for near-field monitoring. They're okay - good enough to get a sense of soundstage, and with their rise around 3kHz - they are almost reminiscent of the old-school Yamaha NS-10s... so, your vocals, guitars, and saxes are pretty damned hot prior to hitting the mastering suite for dynamic range compression.

My last hardware recording rig was a Korg D32XD, with the extra TRS inputs, and a 250gB HD. I was able to get Red Book Spec recordings out of this beast at 24-bit/96kHz, and, having the mixing automation in real time was super fine. People were amazed at my CD masters - they were just as hot as what the big boys running Pro Tools, and analog were putting out.

I lost everything to a pawn shop due to the financial collapse that finally got talked about in '08 (and my divorce). By 2011, I had lost my studio, my gold-tipped Mogami cable array, a custom-built Hamer Mirage electric guitar with Roland GK2 switching capability built-in, all of my good (Sennheiser, and one Neumann), decent (AudioTechnica), and average (MXL; a pair of pencil and multiple pickup pattern studio mics, and a case for all; a Yamaha EX-5 128-voice polyphony keyboard, an Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus module with the complete library (SCSI interface, and backup drives)... note: the EX5 came with all the optional accessories and flash memory; Roland GR30 and GR33 guitar synthesizers; mic stands, direct boxes, a digital modeling guitar amp; and, finally, my mind.

I found myself homeless for the first time in my life, and when you're a type-1 diabetic who hadn't been taking care of himself, I was a mess. Unsuccessful back surgeries, the whole gamut. I've been clean and sober for going on five years (my anniversary will be January 21, 2015)...

Now, things are looking up. I'm disabled, and I still want to make music. I'm looking at getting a new website, and, relocating to Colorado in the near future. Though I may be bipolar, I'm still fairly sane, and easy to work with.

Turtle Beach? I've never heard of them, but, I will Google it... now, I've played gigs in Myrtle Beach, SC, USA back in the day... it rhymes, anyway. Have a good week... tomorrow, our water heater will finally be replaced! I've had to rough it in the past, but this has gone too far :rofl: - LW
 
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