Recent content by Hal9001

Sort of, except these guys figured out how to predict preference rankings among people with healthy hearing about most of the time. By "predict" I mean they could objectively measure any two model of headphones and tell you which most listeners would prefer. That doesn't mean the headphone...

Here's the good news. You don't have to pay a lot to get great sound. https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19774 or directly at https://aes2.org/e-lib/download.cfm/10048.pdf?ID=19774 See the attached image which shows a graph of price versus "performance" (to a particular standard)...

The Grado are worth auditioning but they have a remarkably different sound signature.

In a double blind test, assuming a level playing field, no.

About 5 minutes. 4.8minutes of which is just gravy.

Budget. No, seriously, the question is impossible to answer in a direct fashion. Oh, actually, Science is the most important component. If some doesn't make a preferable impact in a double blind test, it is a waste of resources from an audio perspective (I'm looking at you, 600 euro...