The Head-Fi Healing Thread

Yep. Every newbie starts there. You get there automatically with your first google.

 

Thank god for SBAF! Other than for new product announcements, HF is content free. The level of techical acumen, especially for the "guys in the know" is truly spectacular!

 

I tend to lurk the same threads to see if anything interesting or useful comes about, like with the bigger metal threads/headphones for metal threads.

However, I also creep on users that I find particularly entertaining or aggravating.

And I have no idea if this is the right thread, but I think many users would get a kick out of /u/draytonklammer. He's been one of the more colorful characters I've seen on Head-Fi so far. The TL;DR is that he got into audio fairly recently and went balls out by constantly buying summit-fi headphones and then selling them or asking how much more money he can throw at blind purchases in order to make his system better. (He has no idea about anything too.) After deciding to sell a majority of his stuff, he settled on the LCD-4 as his end game. But that really only lasted for a few weeks because he just bought the Abyss and decided in the span of a few minutes that it's a better headphone than the LCD-4 and now that is up for sale.

I think it's quite interesting to see all the users on there who equate more expensive = better.

 

I agree about Drayton Klammer. Did he seriously turn his back on the LCD-4 after all the bull-shit hype he inseminated on its corresponding thread?

 

Looks like a very serious case of new toy syndrome. At least he's built himself up a fair bit of trade feedback.

 

I'd love to say that he's trolling everyone, but I think he has more money than sense and can't formulate his own opinions. I once called him out on his bullshit after he caught my attention in the LCD-X thread, because he never wrote anything more than a sentence. It was always something like "The LCD-X shits on your face." "The LCD-X is better than krokodil mixed with coke." Never any justification or detail behind his hyped up statements.

But holy shit. You sit down with a new $5,500 headphone and know that you want to get rid of your $4,000 headphone in the span of a few minutes? I'm going to bet a kidney that he's going to purchase the Focal Utopia after he reads that some users prefer it to both the Abyss and LCD-4. Then he's going to buy an Orpheus 2.

 

Your bet is void, according to his comment history he's already purchased it and it's on the way.

More than likely he's just addicted to hopping around from flagship thread to flagship thread and sucking off all the existing owners with his brainless questions (will my $4.7K Moon Audio amp be good enough?) before he gets bored and goes on to the next one.

 

I vaguely remember he wanted to compare it with his LCD-4, but surely he didn't purchase it?

That's too true. I mean, part of the fun of audio is fooling around with different sounds and experiencing the journey. But whatever. I can't wait to see what he says next. Hopefully he figured out how to put on the Abyss properly. I can't believe he actually asked which way it should be worn.

 

r/headphones isn't a bad place for beginners but it is hard for me to spend time there when a majority of the posters have m50x/hd598 as endgame and believe amps and DACs are a placebo. Too much of a flock mentality for me, I prefer r/audiophile.

At least some of them have started to turn against their almighty Zeos

 

Recently discovered this site. I didnt know about Head-Fi/Jude's grudge until I got a PM from Currawong about him deleting my very recently added link to sbaf in my profile. My profile! I have a relatively low post count for a member from 2006, how did he come upon my link? Im a nobody. I rarely post anything controversial or interesting.

I agree with most of whats already been said here regarding HeadFi and its priority as a marketing tool. I used to donate $ to HF. I guess that was pre-Huddler.

If Jude is all bad then why did he add the sound science forum?

I would like to hear about the HD700 debacle, please?

Can I get a SBAF shirt for next CanJam?

 

I have not been in Sound Science for a few months. It was the only subforum that I did frequent on HF. Obviously what follows is my opinion, but Sound Science is a ghetto. It is allowed as a place to segregate out undesirables and is allowed to devolve into chaos. The current Sound Science mod had no power last time I was there, and the old mod (Currawong? Never really saw him "mod" any thread until CastleOfAaargh became "mod") allowed just about anyone to go in and shit on any thread as long as they were within visible range of the "civility" guidelines.

 

50x / HD598 endgame and amps / DACs dont matter?
Not too far off the Big Sound 2015 parting shot. If I paraphrase correctly it was something like "any decent DAC and amp will do, cables add very little, get a pair of HD600's and come back in 5 years". Certainly much more pocket friendly than hanging around HF for 5 years ...

 

If people want sound science then go to hydrogenaud.io, read Archimago's blog, or... now doubt there are other great places on the net for it. But unless one enjoys arguments with 11-yr-olds where every other paragraph starts I'm only trying to say followed by the same thing as he only tried to say the last time, forget it. There is better sound science here on sbaf than there is in the HF ghetto. Even though some people there still try. Bottom line is that it, generally, discourages large spends. That kind of discouragement is never goinf to be encouraged on HF.

How many moderators do they have? Either they read every post between them, or they automate the process. I'd expect them to have spam-flagging software, and I'm guessing that they use that, or some form or extension of it, to flag posts that flag their particular unmentionables

 

Just look at Jude's facial expressions(eyebrows, mouth) at 1min:38sec of the video when he says that the HD700 sounds closer the HD800(than to HD650).. I leave it to the viewer to make their own conclusions...

 

Ruh roh. Someone's about to get spanked in the Focal thread;

Declanhunt I wouldnt use Judes measurements he's a newb when it comes to measurements. I'm waiting for Purrins measurements myself.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/811270/foc...ith-impressions-head-fi-tv/1005#post_12715516

 

The good die young

 

Sharp Shirts Of Our Time

Never mind Jude... How can the Sennheiser guy wear that shirt without getting cut to shreds?

 

Clensed. Make sure to take screenshots folks