Audiophile laugh thread

Let's laugh at audiophiles.

This is a classic

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no audiophile but same type of shit

post those python wires

Holy shit, I want to shoot him in the face. I didn't even make it to 2 minutes in.

Please someone post this gif!

youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWwCfN8TO0

That was meant to be a joke. You're laughing with him, not at him.

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But the point of that video is that they sound like shit, he's acting

Also it seems to be closed back and it costs more than $2000, what the fuck

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>small poor kids think they are cool with 20$ gayming headsets or earphones

>youtube.com/watch?v=gsh7ay7jYfE
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>no audiophile but same type of shit

...The fuck am I looking at?

what the fuck

Are there overtards on Sup Forums?

Been considering it, just feels a little late to get into it.

you've seriously never heard of coconut audio? they made some pretty great stuff. i don't think their cables are in production anymore but you can still pick them up second hand on ebay for pretty cheap. thinking about picking this bad boy up. it's a steal at only $150.

Looks like some retard stuck a wire in each end of an unused tampon.

if you can't even identity an audiophile grade sata cable then it looks like you're the retard here.

here's the product description to give you an idea of what you're missing out on just using a standard sata cable.

>If you want maximum detail from your computer harddrive while adding more bass, this is the cable to get. It gives more detail and a blacker background than the popular 20mm Unreal Pro model. I recommend you get the 20mm version first and get used to it, otherwise the improved detail of this 32mm version will be too much for you to handle. If you were shocked of the improvements from the 20mm model, upgrading from 20mm to 32mm will give a similar effect.

>The Unreal Pro 32mm SATA cable is also better than the successful Megalodon SATA Ultra, both are the same size, but with different technology. The Unreal model has a better crystal formula, and a black crystal crust that improves contrast ratio and detail with a lower noise floor.

i bet you feel a bit foolish now don't you?

Nigga I think you got autism.

How does one even find the words for this shit?

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ebay.com/itm/Holy-Silver-Mountain/262898949952
ebay.com/itm/Holy-Paradise-Ball-last-ones/262898949968

Is there really that much of a difference between the Holy Silver Mountain and the Holy Paradise Ball? They both have 2-stage Unreal crystal formula, Ultra Transparent Crystal Treatment, Hyper Crystal Treatment, Holy Crystal Treatment and Blue Liquification buffering, but the Holy Silver mountain also has Layered silver 99.999% purity
and a Black Obsidian Pyramid. Are these additions really worth the extra $400?

You're dumber than niggers

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mfw:

Why are audiophiles always 40+ years old? Even if there was a slight increase in quality from their snake oil, they wouldn't be able to tell because of biology.

I can't believe people buy this

Perhaps midlife crisis but with audio shit rather than a sports car.

Itt: poorfags with their Samsung earbuds laughing at things they can't afford

ITT: poorfags who think their 400$ akg headphones and 200$ amp DAC combo is good enough to provide the purest sound

brb starting an audiophile amp business

youtube.com/watch?v=Xpa_4Lao2z0
will this work on headphones as well?

that was great

this is what a phone poster looks like

I don't think I can find a spot for that in my mITX case. Even a flea will feel cooped up here. :^s

>itt retards ridiculing jokes that were meant to ridicule audiophools in the first place.
Sasuga Sup Forums.

>Why are audiophiles always 40+ years old?
They are not.
>Even if there was a slight increase in quality from their snake oil
Audiophile is a person enthusiastic about audio, not necessarily an idiot.
>they wouldn't be able to tell because of biology.
There's so much more that goes into audio quality and perceived sound than high frequency hearing range and sensitivity.

>100% positive feedback

End my life

I can't fucking believe this is real, hahaha

kek'd

Do it mane, I jumped in a few weeks ago and I'm not great (~2000 sr) but it's fun

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Fuck, didn't see the youtube link.

youtu.be/ipZY0qGrA9Y?t=59s

I kek'd so fucking hard at this.

Fucking ear fatigue, holy shit. Now I've seen it all..

kek that filename

the look you have when you hear spongebob squarepants opening theme in flac format.

if you want the purest sound you wont be using headphones.

it's when they start losing hearing

That's me!

>supporting animal cruelty

Please fuck off with this unnecessary shit

I once knew an audiophile who was turbo autistic about his setup. The funniest thing about him was that his music library had about seven songs in it and they were all shitty dubstep "songs".

Normally quite a bit older than that, its very much a boomer kind of thing.

Its not that old people become audiophiles, its more the same kind of people today are, well, posting on Sup Forums about FPS and graphics cards instead.

Think you may be autistic.

oh hell yes

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THICC

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I know there's reasons they use a PS1 but I don't care; I want to know why they ruined that AESTHETIC machine to make that shitshow.

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>AESTHETIC machine
Your kind is worse than audiophiles.

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wtf are you talking about

imagine having people come over and you have to tell them not to step over the thing that looks like a child's racetrack, because it cost multiple thousands of dollars.

2250 SR here. Solo queue life is bad but damn it i still have fun.

This reminds me - I need to re-read monster monsume.

youtube.com/watch?v=tTRKFkE32XE

EE worked in the music industry because I love audio equipment and I live in a music city.

Let me tell you something right now, musicians don't give a fuck about all this crap. I've gone into million dollar recording studios where I see some of this fancy shit. and the producers are usually in a corner with their laptop and 400$ KRK speakers because that is what they know.
Mixing and master engineers are the only ones who might benefit from the marginal increase in audio fidelity this goofy looking stuff provides, but they don't. They stick with what they know best which is usually some really old or completely in the box(digital). I'm noticing a trend that things are becoming far more simple, minimal and really not as involved.

These fancy ass isolating stands and pads, the cords, the handcrafted headphones made of wood and marble or whatever it's for rich hobbyists and the slight increase in quality is usually not worth the price and a lot fo the times just placebo. Technology as at a point where things are really good for reasonable price. You don't need all this.

I'm glad everything I thought about audiophiles was correct.

yeah that's interesting too, since like guitar amps/speaker design hasn't changed for like 30years. So you're still micing up "old" speakers that have none of this ludicrous audiophile shit.

wtf is this meant to accomplish?

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>EE worked in the music industry
>types like a 13 year old

Don't think so champ.

What REALLY gets me about audiophiles that they usually have the most boring possible taste in music. Pink Floyd, prog rock, maybe some metal if they're young, woo-hoo - typical "Top 500 best rock albums" stuff.
(UNLESS they happen to be into classical or jazz - then they may get a pass for not being too boring)

They're never the people who really listen to a lot of different, new and interesting stuff.

On the other hand, the people who do listen to lots of interesting stuff & have interesting things to say about music tend to be fine with reasonably normal equipment. Maybe they want vinyl but their setups are not going to be snake-oiled funky-ass trumpetspeakers.

why

why? They don't teach EEs grammar and writing. They also don't teach that to musicians.

Reminds me of something Alan Parsons said, something like "audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment."

The sad thing about amps, distortion units/pedals(which was the thing that got me into tinkering as a teenager) is that digital emulates all the old gear perfectly and you're seeing less of them in modern studios. I remember a place in Nashville who recorded mostly punk bands had a ridiculous setup that they would abuse. The chains they would create, and home-brew stuff they'd come up with were really nice examples of ingenuity and fun to discover. All just to get gnarly sounds. Now the stuff is superfluous and bands only use them if it's crucial for their sound, but most of the time it's not need and superfluous. You just can't tell what is guitar rig or analog anymore, and the majority of the time twiddling knobs on your computer will get you a sound that's better than anything you could hope it get with gear.

There is a resurgence of analog synthesizers and drum machines though, because everyone is using digital synthesizers the sound of hot tubes and the pitch drift is desirable now. But even now they're beginning to emulate the frequency-response irregularities, pitch-drift, flutters and pops of analog in digital instruments. Software guys are killing my shit lol.

>$400 AKG
What the fuck, man.

Headphones are the only affordable option to most people. At the ~$1k level you should be getting real quality audio. Once you head a biodynamic, you can't really switch back though, so be careful of what you listen to. Speakers have a greater potential, but to get something matching a $1k headphone you'll have to spend a whole lot of money.

Also, it's unfortunate that most "audiophile" headphones are centered on the highs so much, it's really dumb. That's why a biodynamic is so great, it can actually produce clear subbass down below what you can hear, which you can normally only get with some ridiculously priced headphones with other membranes.

.. I'm not an audiophile, I just wanted a neutral-warm sounding headphone that would still produce bass with actual impact. So I bought the ZMF Eikons, and now I'll never need to buy another headphone because they're perfect for movies (I really wanted them specifically to watch movies late at night), music, games, anything.

Having said all this, I'd say it's only worth trying if you can control yourself. $1k headphones like these, and a $350~ amp/DAC is about the most you need. Considering most people spend that on computers every few years, vs. a setup that will give you phenomenal sound for decades, it's not really that odd. Hell, some people buy TVs for $3-4k and then still wonder why others get headphones for $1k.

I digress - the point at the end there was to say: the sweet-spot is the lower end of summit-fi, nothing more is needed. Audio is half of your experience with a movie, or game, but you won't spend any money on it? That's fine, but don't complain when people do. Audiophiles are usually stupid though, I agree. Just find what you want, and get out of the field.

Also, a downside is that you will now immediately notice any shitty mastering or recording. Can't watch TV-shows with these, the noise floor on their shitty microphones become clearly audible.

I want audiocucks like this retard to get beheaded desu

>>> cont

(Also note, if you're going to shit on me for buying a $1.35k setup, I'll be leaving this thread soon anyway so don't bother for my sake)

>Technology as at a point where things are really good for reasonable price. You don't need all this.
Name a few good budget headphones that rival the distortion levels of $1k headphones. Sure, there are heavy diminishing returns (especially past low-end summit-fi; Sennheiser HD800, Focal Elear, ZMF Eikon and so on) but it's worth it to a point.

For me it wasn't as much to find the best stuff as to find what fit me. I wanted something that sounded like a 2.1 but that I could use at night/evenings, for movies and electronic music (both need fast, low-distortion sub-bass). Now that I have, I don't really follow any of this stuff anymore.

You could argue that $3-400 is enough, but really those are all only good at one thing, never everything. For me, the biodynamics at that price range weren't good, basically all of the ones Foster makes are trash more or less. Even the TH-900's.

>Maybe they want vinyl but their setups are not going to be snake-oiled funky-ass trumpetspeakers.
I know what you mean, but vinyl is the most ridiculous hipster/audiophile bullshit ever though. The noise on those things, even good ones, is absolutely ridiculous and negates having a high-end setup in the first place. I can understand why old people would want vinyl - it sounds like stuff sounded when they grew up. But young people.. why?

I hope you didn't spend more than $700 on your PC. Anything past that is a complete waste if you mean to play modern games at high detail settings 1080p. (I don't browse Sup Forums so I don't know if the gentoo thing is actually true, I assume you must play games as well)

I understand most young people buying vinyl are relatively open about liking it for the collectability. Some talk crap about a warm sound.

I mean, that is the reason why I tend to buy vinyl if I want to buy an album (and don't want to buy it as a digital download). Its just a much cooler item than CD, plus actually gains monetary value over time if its a popular & limited release (I've bought many an album at 20 and sold at 50-80 if I didn't like it that much)

not a native speaker.

>Why are audiophiles always 40+ years old?
because they have money

We're in the age of being able to stream FLAC even, you can have endless amounts of music on your harddrive or just stream it. I'm not much into collecting things just to show off or have them, I just look for the deal generally. What's the best compromise I can make to get something that I would want, how, and so on.

>Poor people in shit countries use shit gear
Who guessed. Here's the philosophy behind using "good enough" gear for mixing and mastering: you don't need to make music to standards higher than that of what you expect the average listener to use to listen to it with.

Most people use something like apple earbuds, or beats. Anything above that is really audiophile-grade equipment. You can tell that the focus shifted somewhere, because older songs are usually well-mastered, and well-recorded. If you want a higher chance of that today, you need to turn to movie soundtracks, because those are actually made to be played on high-end equipment - and you notice it easily.

Listening to Carpenter Brut right now for example, even on shitty headphones you should be able to hear what I mean. I don't mind too much, but to say that you don't need anything above Koss Portapro's, low-end Sennheisers or whatever, gaming headsets I guess (since even low-end Sennheisers probably cost too much for you, sitting in front of your 34" 144 Hz gay man monitor) is just misleading.

Anyway, leaving. I'm from europe by the way, English isn't my native language either. I'm just not retarded, that's all. Maybe music people being, is the reason for the poor mastering of many modern tracks.

I see Sore ga Seiyuu on the bar's TV at 1:37, neat.
Apparently both shows are animated by Gonzo.
>Perfect playback of sounds outside the range of the human ear!
Fucking perfect.

It's not a good game. Play TF2 and wait until Quake comes out if you want something fun.

The only reason they use the PS1 is because that particular version had a particularly good DAC for its price.

Of course, the DAC isn't spectacular compared to modern DACs, so modding these PS1s with more CAPACITORS is just stupid when they could buy something better.

snek!

>Perfect playback of sounds outside the range of the human ear!
Yeah, why would anyone want to locate the majority of distortion in areas that you can't hear? Apple Earbuds 4 life man.

(Actually, if you want less shit earbuds than Apple's, get Ve Monks - they're about $5 on aliexpress)

>DAC
Calm down buddy. You don't need a DAC. Your motherboard is good enough, or phone (something like the V20 would actually be passable for portable).

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA WHAT IS THIS?!

The Queen Mary called. She wants her horns back.

>he took the STAXpill
Wish I bought one of those when the Yen was rock bottom

>You don't need a DAC. Your motherboard is good enough, or phone (something like the V20 would actually be passable for portable).
But those devices have DACs.

Separate ones, above the cheapest-China-garbage-level (ironically, some of the best ones are from China too, like Audio GD's implementation of the Sabre9018 in the NFB-11). Anything that does digital to analog would have a DAC.

If you're wondering why I'm still here, I'm stuck shitposting on Sup Forums. Send help.