@deep_333 If your current system is your final audio destination kudos. What is offensive is claiming anyone that has or desires an audio system of better build and sound quality cares less about music and more about gear? That might get the award for "most convoluted" statement on Audiogon!
At what price is one considered an Audiophile.
Audiophilia, what is is it?
Is it the love of music or the equipment that presents the music.
Or is it both?
What is the cost of admission?
How much does one have to spend on equipment to be considered an Audiophile, if it is truly the later than the music.
What has membership to this perceived exclusive club cost you?
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Everybody knows that my 700 bucks system cannot rival many more expansive one we can see in the virtual system pages as a real or potential better audiophile experience 😁... This is a common place indisputable fact ...I dont brag about any system myself including mine , i invite people to STUDY AND EXPERIMENT instead or before upgrading ... What many people ignore is that we can have an audiophile experience at low cost ANYWAY, provide we know or learn how to create synergy and know or learn how to control mechanical, electrical and acoustical embeddings of any audio system ... Claiming otherwise is reinforcing the false belief that the relation between good sound and a better sound is depending on the gear mainly and more depending especially only on the gear price... This is double falsehood : Synergy and the acoustics/psycho-acoustics knowledge and not only room acoustic here, is the basis of audiophile experience not merely the gear design , and more than that there is no linear relation between audiophile experience value and gear price ...
Now if someone read my post as meaning that i deny the audio quality value of high end designed component compared to low cost solutions , he misread my post COMPLETELY... I say that acoustic and other basic knowledge are more valuable than gear price and as much as important to create and reach the MINIMAL ACOUSTIC SATISFACTION THRESHOLD ...When we cross this threshold music became so immersive we forgot upgrades, most of us at least , save the obsessive compulsive consumers who anyway focus on gear price scale upgrade not on knowledge or acoustic experiments... ... |
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Thank for your appreciation... I did not rebuild the headphone ... It was a very good design to begin with... I changed the inner shell chamber by extracting the thick grid that was there for protection not sound quality.... I put anti vibration product inside, 2 complementary one, sorbothane duro 70 and Fo.Q tape from japan ... I chose the right pads on five possible choices i bought at low cost in China because the volume of the shell chamber matter then the thickness of the pad matter a lot and i pick a perforated pad for better results ... I used the right equalization to be nearer the Harman curve ... I picked the right amplifier , after trying two others the second more cleaner among the three but the more powerful because this K340 are picky to drive ...I used a dac more on the analysing side deliberately because this headphone is very organic and need very clean source...i used also my homemade protecting EMI plate ( shungite+copper tape ) all along beside my components ... Etc... Without all this my headphone is not at all the same... Now it beat anything i heard in headphones... This is only simple experiments... It takes me 6 months to reach the end... It was fun and low cost... Do you prefer to buy a 5,000 bucks headphone which i even doubt will beat my 100 bucks K340 on ALL acoustic counts because anyway by design he is one of its kind and prove that very old design can be irreplaceable even today ? Learning is fun it takes only thinking and experimenting...But you are right it is costly in time and i am retired...
I call that optimization ... It is trying that or throwing money on the gear ... I prefer to motivate creativity here than claiming that costly upgrade are the only one solution as most think anyway erroneously ... The minimal acoustic satisfaction threshold dont ask for 100,000 bucks of gear ... Please understand that i spoke this way to motivate people and push them to study a bit before making useless half the time big expanse...
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