Listening to $35 Porta Pro headphones and realizing you don’t need a lot of money for great sound
ABX testing and realizing I couldn’t tell the difference AT ALL and certainly couldn’t remember the last sound bite well enough to make a real comparison anyway.
I did get aftermarket pads for them but they are not made for long term listening. But that is beside the point - they show you don’t need to spend $1000 to get great sound and they are only one example of that.
The eye opening moments for me were
Listening to $35 Porta Pro headphones and realizing you don’t need a lot of money for great sound
ABX testing and realizing I couldn’t tell the difference AT ALL and certainly couldn’t remember the last sound bite well enough to make a real comparison anyway.
Returned them after they kept grabbing hairs
True! I love the retro look but the hair thing isn’t ideal
Were they comfortable though?
Did they have good noise blocking? Good battery? Good delay? Microphone? Good warranty? Reparaibility? There’s so many reasons to spend a buck extra
TBF if they’re uncomfortable you don’t use them, so that’s a breaking feature.
I did get aftermarket pads for them but they are not made for long term listening. But that is beside the point - they show you don’t need to spend $1000 to get great sound and they are only one example of that.
Similar with mp3 bitrate. While I do think I noticed a difference going from 128kbps to 192kbps, anything beyond that I can’t hear a difference for.
Which clearly means I need to dump 15k into my sound setup because it maxes out somewhere between 128kbps and 192kbps!
Edit: dumb -> dump
aound -> sound