Bose is my favorite company - Page 2

On September 17 2009 09:23 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
Better sales through marketing

On September 17 2009 09:23 m4gdelen4 wrote:
i listen to many different genres of music trance, classical (piano and/or symphony), rock/metal, etc.
is there a pair of headphones that sounds good all around?

On September 17 2009 09:58 Ecael wrote:

Hard to say, if you care, do some reading around audiophile forums and go test out equipments yourself. Do you have a budget range?

Few things can be said to sound good all around (though some make an argument that particularly high end equipment can marginalize that issue), further more, there are at times sound signatures that people like that aren't universally accepted.

On September 17 2009 10:01 Wangsta wrote:
bose is really terrible for the money. you are paying for their marketing and appearance (which is ugly, IMO). its not just made-up elitism from audiophiles, people have taken apart bose phones and compared the parts to those used in headphones from sennheiser, audiotechnica, AKG, beyerdynamic, etc.; it's almost fraud how overpriced bose headphones are. you are basically paying $150+ for a $30-50 headphone. compare those bose to the $40-60 JVC ha-rx700 or the $50-80 grado sr60s, both of which offer much better sound quality for less than half the price

active noise canceling is something you should ALWAYS avoid, the technology simply is not good enough yet. the reason why your headphones need batteries is because they use a miniature amp to create an inverse sound wave (they add sound to your music) which cancels out ambient noise. however, that mini-amp is of TERRIBLE quality and adds all kinds of bad artifacts to your music.

if you need to block out external noise, get IEMs. good IEMs will form an air tight seal with your ear and work like earplugs. they will remove much more ambient noise than any active noise canceling headphone, while maintaining MUCH better sound quality. there is a huge, HUGE, difference. some IEMs (like the jh-13 pros) are comparablein sound quality to many $3000+ top of the line audiophile headphone setups (i.e. hd800, k1000s, etc. with top of the line tube amplifiers)

if you enjoy your bose headphones that's great though. but for the sake of your wallet, make sure you never listen to similarly priced models from sennheiser, AKG, audiotechnica, beyerdynamic, and etc.

On September 17 2009 11:08 Orome wrote:
I'm probably going to buy new speakers and new head/ear phones, is there any particular forum you guys would recommend where I could educate myself about what models to get?