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
Sound stage/imaging is not really a thing in most modern music. Given how digitally produced everything is that us young'ns (I'm not sure that I could be considered young, but I digress) listen to compression is part of the music and there is no real sense of space in any of it to appreciate with free standing speakers. That's beyond the complete lack of imaging inherent in its nature. As such 1 of the 2 major benefits of the traditional system is gone.
Most young people these days are living in apartments and condos rather than owning a house. Setting your music loud enough to feel the visceral impact of the sound waves on your body results in your neighbors pounding on the wall/ceiling/floor and calling the cops on you. That's not to mention what would happen if you tried to get away with it in your office which is where we're spending the vast majority of our waking hours these days. That's the second of the 2 major benefits out the window.
None of it compares in the slightest to what you get from 30+years ago when albums were recorded using strategically placed microphones and musicians rather than built by connecting tiny signal snippets using software.
By "snippets" I assume you are referring to pop recordings done a track at a time by rather bad musicians (not proper engineers) who don't know what they're doing, or how to use the easily acquired tools of today. Anybody, these days, can buy a computer an interface, a couple of cheap Chinese mics and record in a spare bedroom and call it a studio. Recordings done this way are mostly garbage and as such I agree with you completely.., sonically un-involving.