Which headphones of Drop's currently available?
I have some rewards points to burn but there's no obviously good options on Drop right now for headphones Contenders Ultrasone - maybe? I don't own any Ultrasones, so curious. Looks like garbage travel headphone which could be useful also. Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro. - Maybe? I have the DT 880 Good price point, really uncomfortable headphones but could be interesting to try the upgraded version. E-MU - strong contender but $400 is a bad price point for what it is. Which of the above would you choose and why? Nothing else on Drop is relevant to my interests, because Already own 6xx 820 800 s Ether cx Garbage / Consumer grade Meze 99 - garbage bass canons, hard pass No gaming headphones obviously Sennheiser wireless - no to wireless/bluetooth Hifiman - I have 2 of drop hifimans and they make really bad cheap shit on Drop, hard pass on HE-R7DX Aeon - I own the closed, Drop refuses to address #padgate so no reason to buy open Beyerdynamic 177x - wireless, nope Too similar 8x / 560s...
Mar 28, 2024
Before this, i was mildly into Audio Tech but listened to lot of Electronic\Trance, Dub Step, Jazz and some old Rock. I currently have Bose Triport Around Ear Headphones for Home Audio\Gaming and Bowers & Wilkins C5 IEMs for the on-the-go music.
Ah, desire is a sin.. indeed.
To be happy, I pursue perfection. The pursuit of perfection makes me unhappy.
To use a driving analogy, sometimes you enjoy a drive for the scenery, and other times you enjoy a drive for the car you're sitting behind the wheel of.
Enjoy!
You write beautifully. Its almost like reading works of hemmingway. The solemn writing with deep thought.
I listen by album so...I tend to only know the tracks that move me very, very much. If you want to know what exactly I listen to it's: Mando genres (anything from this area, I don't care what it been categorized into. I simply love the way their language works, and the nasality of their traditional music); Cinematic Orchestras Includes tonnes of movie OSTs. I love the way they allow to re-envision the movie or imagine it at least based on the title. However, my biggest weakness are albums that convey wholesome literary meaning. I ,especially. love the ones whose themes refer to a coming-of-age, and the development process within it. I believe We Caught the Castle's Time to Grow encapsulates a very relatable meaning with the progression of each song in the album. Each song (listened to from start to finish) gives you a sense of chronology by shifting from perspective to perspective say from a loved one to the persona him/herself (No, I won't imply the gender of the persona). What sets it apart is that the rhythm changes slowly from angsty and aggressive to something more mellow as you listen on.
Another personal favourite of mine is Damon Albarn's Everyday Robots. The theme is pretty much already in the title, but the satirical nature by which he uses both everyday life and existing musical forms [Like the Chorus format]. In every song, he posits excellent questions against the establishment, and even the anti-establishment. Sometimes by mere form while being layered by a theme of love as the entry point (if you ever get any further than that. He's a tricky one, he is.). Sometimes, he just spells it out for you as bluntly as possible by describing exactly what he sees in everyday life with a different vocabulary, but the same essential meaning because I think, he is attempting to elicit a response by using the unfamiliar (since we tend to ignore the familiar despite being unable to fully understand what the familiar is. e.g. we are everyday humans, but we, now, act like a robots therefore he says everyday robots). I am a serious sucker for this stuff.
Lastly, I am inexplicably and completely drawn to what I call "Transparent music" (not transparent recordings) within the ambient genre. Olafur Arnald's For Now I Am Winter is one album that is simply stunning. The track For Now I Am Winter is a good example. Listening to the decaying notes of violins, and the ambient sounds of a sad, silent winter, and, occasionally, Olafur's dejectedly smooth yet somehow abrasive voice between long intervals repeat the same lines. Really transports you to a lonely winter setting where you simply walk and walk and walk through the emptiness, but oddly enough you seem to enjoy this serene environment in your mind's eye. You feel as if someone else is there with you, but simply couldn't care less. The last vestiges of what was human civilization simply echo hollow in your journey. This is winter. You make out a wry smile. You walk until the end of the journey, but does it really end? Do you really want it to end? You realize that the winter is calm. It soothes. It lulls your senses to sleep. It is only you and winter, and, like a child with its mother, you feel safe wrapped in its shawl of snow. You want to be with it. You want to be like it. But it doesn't last. For now that you have embraced the never ending journey you are slapped by the fleeting nature of time and its product. You remember... are forced remember that you live in a tropical country [this is me], and you never got the least bit close to winter, and now you wish it was winter again.
In my opinion, he really transports you into His version of home, Iceland, he presents Iceland's vast expanse of snow as both cold and lonely, yet warm and serene. Simply breathtaking. The pinnacle of forgetting. There is no headphone. There is no artist. There is no recording. There is no music. There is no US. There are no societies. There is no globe. There is no universe. There is only you and winter.
P.S. I went overboard again. Anyway my album recommendations are: We Caught the Castle - Time to Grow Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots Olafur Arnalds - For Now I Am Winter
Start off with "fright night" "gettin high in the morning" and "interesting results"