Dusty Chalk

Playback's Guide to Earphones & Custom Fit IEMs

Done. I crack me up.

Yes, I live in a noisy environment -- do you live in a monestary? Or a ...wherever it is that nuns are? Or an abandoned velvet-lined stone fortress? Because short of that, headphones are almost always quieter than a speaker environment. And even when it is, you had to have gone to a lot of effort to achieve that, which adds a psychological, "waiting for the other shoe to drop" pressure. To me, anyway. I listen on relatively low volumes with both. And yes, I totally agree that there's the whole isolation vs. background noise thing, but to me, it's more than that. I have heard excellent speakers on a well-controlled room, and they still seemed more diffuse than headphones. I mean, when you're straining yourself to understand lyrics, don't you subconsciouly do the ear equivalent of squinting your eyes, and try to lean up closer to the speaker? You're already doing that with headphones. I'm not saying that speakers aren't more enjoyable for you (and Jacob and most of the rest of the population), but you touched a nerve when you said "critical" listening.

DT800? Or do you mean DT880? I think you've been typing '800' a lot, because of the Senns, that's all.

I actually find headphones better for critical listening, mostly due to the isolation. For example, discerning hard-to-understand lyrics in complex, layered contemporary pop/rock, I find much easier on headphones than on speakers, all other things being equal. So yeah, disagree.

Didn't we have a whole thread for apps? Or was it this thread? You may want to go through that. Of course, that's assuming you want to hear recommendations from others than Ric.

That's the greatest article ever written, evar.

So I take it it wasn't anyone here? Sorry. If it's any consolation, it suddenly gets easier again after 30.

OH COME ON!

If you like hoppy, it's worth trying.

Can you use a visual editor to look at the exact spot and see if there's anything there in the file? (And yes, we would need more than the second, otherwise I'd do it myself.) I'm listening on linux, and I hear nothing unusual, except a weird divide-down artifact/synthetic warbling sound @ 2:44, not a snap, crackle, nor pop.

(makes a mental note to visit that bar)

Was: My Antonia -- I liked it better from the bottle -- perhaps it needed just a little bit of time to calm down.

Alright, whoever turned me on to Loops of Zen is dead meat. I'm up to freakin' level 29, and I need it on an iPad...and an iPad.

Lang Lang -- mpi is a huge classical music fan. I've never slept with a bartender. And I have to say, I didn't get much sleep with the librarian, neither.

Oh, I was just being...you know, me, Mr. Headphone-cheerleader.

Headphones?

I've always enjoyed that album cover -- what kind of music is it?

Noise-cancelling headphones?

a^x -- you're asian, so people just assume you know Kung Fu.

There was? I missed it...

Aw, damn...but funneh.

The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar -- take one part Lush, one part Metric, one part theStart...and then fill the rest of the shaker with rawk. Shake vigorously. Gets epically tasty at about the 3:20 mark.

A beer named King Crimson.

Castle -- silly episode