I've been a regular poster at head-fi and our local Singapore fora sgheadphones.net and jaben.net/forums. By accident I stumbled over this forum and I must say it's nice to add another enthousiast forum to the collection. One thing baffles me though, the anti-head-fi postings. People seem to like to snub at the "burn in rage" or the "Edition 9 love" that apparently is going on at head-fi.com. We've had spats between the Singaporean fora but they seem to be resolved now. I'm probably here but what's the deal?

Do a little more reading, as in go to older topics and read about stuff that's happened. But yes, it's pretty obvious most members here are not happy with the current state of HF.

Thanks, I'll do that. I've had a few issues with the hf mods myself but it's not nearly as bad as some other fora I can mention.

what's the deal?

Stupid people making stupid decisions. That pretty much covers it.

Welcome to head-case, Singapura. There are varying degrees of anti-head-fi sentiment around here, but mostly just frustration. Most of us are active both places, but here, we can express things a bit more freely. There's less hype, FOTM and otherwise, and ratio of members here who have actual knowledge about lots of different gear is pretty high compared to there. That's why claims such as "782 hours of burn-in is necessary before X will sound good" are treated with suspicion at best. There's some b.s. here as well, but mostly of the fun variety, and rarely about gear and never, as far as I've seen, about music.

Perhaps HF is the "B" team...

HF is loaded with crap, I have to filter everything myself to find the useful stuff . Here, it's a lot easier, pretty much everything here is worth something so I don't have to scroll & scroll all over again .

I've read a lot of older postings, I get where the frustation is coming from. I hope to make some constructive contributions to head-case in the future Like I said I've been censored before by the head-fi moderators. I was the first to write about the Crossroads Mylar and my posting, which took an hour to write, was deleted without comment the first time. There are commercial interests at work on head-fi but that is to be expected. No need for enmity on my part.

And a belated Welcome to Head-Case!

Head-Fi can be a victim of their own popularity. There are a lot of members there who don't have a lot of experience and will post erroneous suggestions, opinions, etc. But there are also a lot of quality members who know what they are talking about. No reason to denigrate the whole forum IMO.

I have to say I've been lurking around this forum about 2 months or so and recently joined. I find that here I can get a true honest straight-to-the-point opinion, and feedback about various different gear.

Head-Fi can be a victim of their own popularity. There are a lot of members there who don't have a lot of experience and will post erroneous suggestions, opinions, etc. But there are also a lot of quality members who know what they are talking about. No reason to denigrate the whole forum IMO.

Honestly HF does that well enough on its own, given that you can't really call people out on pure BS without people jumping all over you.

Well just found this place yesterday. It does feel like the anti-head-fi lol. What looks cool though is that things (product opinions) seem a little more straight up here. Dunno if Ill get all the humour style though .

Well just found this place yesterday. It does feel like the anti-head-fi lol. What looks cool though is that things (product opinions) seem a little more straight up here. Dunno if Ill get all the humour style though .

You could start by spelling humor correctly.

Well just found this place yesterday. It does feel like the anti-head-fi lol. What looks cool though is that things (product opinions) seem a little more straight up here. Dunno if Ill get all the humour style though .

Head-case takes a lot hours to burn in, it only gets better with time.

You could start by spelling humor correctly.

And avoiding the use of lol.

shiver me timbers, laddy, and man the mainsail, for there be scurvy dogs on the horizon, arrr

Arrr!!!

Arrr!!!

I think you meant .

And avoiding the use of lol.

rofl lmfao ^^

I think you meant .

That would make for a great smiley here...

You could start by spelling humor correctly.

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You are already not on my good side.

I think you meant .