The Head-Fi Healing Thread

Again, I must emphasize - personal experience. I have made my stance clear that whilst I am certain that a lot of what is being reported on here is no doubt true, I have zero understanding on the circumstances behind the whole rift between CS/SBAF and Head-fi. If I did/do, I would/will be sure to form a better opinion of things.

I agree with most of what you said. That is the purpose of SBAF's existence IMO.

The FOTM is unbelievably, incredibly bad. It was a tough process but there were a number of posters whose views I treated as the gospel when I first got into this hobby, and it took some time before I had to admit that their word (reviews and impressions) couldn't really be taken seriously. Every single new item that is newly released is amazing/good for people who are looking for (insert reason such as amazing packaging, super ergonomics, any other things under the fun sun)/ suitable for certain people/pairings/tastes. It became so apparent that some stuff were just bad but some reviews just handed over their intellectual honesty under some sense of obligation that they owed manufacturers positive reviews since they were handpicked to review pre-production units.

And that's not to mention a whole lot of crap especially on the low-fi threads where there has been an insane upsurge in the number of people who are poster boys for the the term 'confirmation bias' where you see ridiculous claims over how tons of cheap stuff are giant killers or in the league of TOTL e.t.c e.t.c crap crap. Don't get me wrong. There's some amazing value to be had in cheap Chinese gear (Tenores were bloody brilliant, amongst a handful of others which I greatly enjoy). But for the most part its a cesspool of giant-killing, oh-I-must-be-the-coolest-guy-ever-look-what-I-discovered stuff, oh-look-I-spent-so-much-less-and-got-more-than-you perpetuation.

And yeah that's just the tip of the iceberg of course.

That being said, perhaps I'm just a glass half full sorta person. Head-fi has (still) got many things going for it. For all the crap reviewers there are others (Joker, ClieOS, tomscy2000 amongst the more prominent) whose stuff are very much worth reading. I don't necessarily agree with everything but it's clear to me that their review methodology is decent enough to warrant treating what they write as something which is objective and truthful. And of course, there are other stuff like Jason's posts which make for great insightful readings.

This might sound quite strange but to be honest, in the end, I don't really mind if there's tolerable amounts of BS there (if that makes sense). There's something called discernment and it's a tool that will keep me in good stead given any circumstance. If I see something shite on Head-fi I simply ignore it and move on until I find something worth reading. It's really that simple. At the end of the day I have what I perceive to be a pool of reliable information from which I can plan for what to buy next or which manufacturers to dabble with. Nothing else really matters.

 

The trouble is, it is invisible to those who do not have personal experience of it. I could have thought about it for an hour, and never realised as much as I have done from reading posts here and on CS. Even though I had a problem with what seemed to me completely trivial stuff in a fotm theread, I had no idea what goes on there. As I said in another post: I'm just naive and innocent!

 

There are some funny skirmish some weeks ago between some members vs high crusaders of Chord Hugo on HD800 thread.

What kind of skirmish? Well what I vaguely remembered is; there is this sentence being directed towards the Hugo, I guess the sentence is "big pile of excrement".
Oooh, I love metaphors, English is so full of it, especially those that refers to the gooey, smelly substance that comes from the rectum, what a civilized language, I like it.
To think that you're putting a piece of $4500 audio device in a same place as a pile of organic soil fertilizer utilized in backwater farms of 3rd world country... ha ha ha!

Well anyway I tried to show them this to cease the futility:


"We've seen many interesting customers throughout the years....but this 13 years old young boy here has extraordinary tastes and ears. He's currently Jaben Indonesia's youngest customer who actually owned and used Chord Hugo and Hifiman HE-1000.

Proudly photographed here with John Franks and Rob Watts (of Chord) with his autographed Chord Hugo.

Our little brother with exquisite tastes and ears..."

https://www.facebook.com/jaben.indo/photos/a.209342979106853.49086.157610787613406/978145238893286/?type=3

--and the next thing I know is almost two pages worth of posts are gone and the thread is locked.

 

As far as I can tell, Music Alchemist currently is under contract to only contribute to Head-fi exclusively, so that would be the main reason for visiting that site.

 

Your sentence lacks a verb. Oh! Only a couple of days ago, I learned that there is another audio company that makes them.

(I don't use in-ear stuff, so I only came on that by chance)

 

Want to know why I visit HF. Jude just put up a 19 min (long!!) video announcing a new electrostatic IEM system from Shure.
BTW, I know I'm late to the party but I've noticed Jude's quite the "character". I've been watching some of his videos recently and while I usually refrain from passing comments about people before meeting them in person ..... I'll say this ..... he's one smug dude!

 

Forgot, here's the link http://goo.gl/Z2QDPo

If you want further to know why I thought he's smug, FFwd to 14:47 in the video.

 

I had to unsubscribe from almost everything on HF because the signal/noise is sooooooo low. Also, the environment is such that it's impossible to discuss product limitations or negatives (even in a constructive manner) without incurring the wrath of moderation.

I only pop in to read posts by industry types, product announcements/show coverage and to check on any potential meets in my area.

 

Hahaha, okay so I have to respond to this. I made that statement in this post (which was not deleted). http://www.head-fi.org/t/650510/the-new-hd800-impressions-thread/20715#post_11982999

It had nothing to do with what the Hugo sounds like or anything of the sort. It was a statement regarding what JaZZ said, which was that Hugo has no amplification stage. I just clarified it

 

Emperor Jude and his lackeys have a way of running Hype-Fi.

He can be a nice person like Amos but sometimes decides in favour of revenues and conversion rate. He wants to maintain his empire's continuity so yeah, he does what is in the interest of his empire.

After old HF turned Huddler-Fi and then Hype-Fi I saw the interesting members retreat or leave. Thankfully there is still a music community and some pockets of DIY in Hype-Fi. I grew tired of the spam so I left. When I write "spam" consider that an understatement of massive proportions. I stay away...

P.S. My alias here is the same over there. I loved that website in my early days of discovering audio. You learn and you move on.

 

Eehh? It's not deleted? Life's so unfair(tm)!

I'm glad you counter argue against that Mr. J through that conversations though. Reading his heroic crusade about Hugo kinda raise the blood pressure in me.
And lucky for that man that English is not my first language; makes it hard for me to put together a meaningful insult you know, one that stabs right through the heart.

 

hi, purrin, my firends usually change the power supplies of Hugo, they said it's pretty good then. They also bought some monster linear power supplies power Hilo, which is a huge diffrent, many steps improved! (I did heard HUGE improvement in the case of Hilo.) You should try. (Price of Hugo is rubbery I still think.)

 

HF is incredibly inefficient. The site loads slow (for me), and the threads just take forever to wade through. So it's generally a poor use of time.
It's also run disagreeably. I trust the stories I've heard, so it doesn't matter whether I've experienced the trolling--and I haven't--because I can still say objectively that the moderation there isn't right.

 

A matter of spam...

 

Did you give your liver away for audio?

 

Part of my brains is dedicated to music. I keep that part in my skull though.

I can understand why you sold your Soul to Santana. I went King Crimson...

 

Yes, but i don't post there anymore. So far it is still best place to buy and sell equipment. I don't trust the info i get there... sometimes there are still something to read.