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HuckDFaters t1_iu0yida wrote

Reply to comment by mr_sinn in Without this subreddit, I wouldn't have heard of these, so thanks to you! Very happy with my new purchase! by Abraxo_Grammaticus

If you can't be satisfied by a Sundara-tier headphone, the next tier isn't gonna be that much better, nor the one after that.

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mr_sinn t1_iu0zze4 wrote

Value of money is different to everyone. I own $1000 tier headphones and couldn't have stopped at the $300 price point as a general reflection of quality.

I think they're talking more generally, that most people feel they're good enough for the price.

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HuckDFaters t1_iu13fkz wrote

Yeah I'm just saying Sundara is already quite close in quality to higher tier headphones. People can stop with a Sundara and be perfectly fine. Other people can and will pay $700+ more for 5%-10% of improvement over the Sundara and that's fine too.

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GOBBLESHNOB t1_iu3hw8n wrote

What exactly is "better quality" in a $1000 headphone vs a $300 headphone?

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mr_sinn t1_iu41fox wrote

That would be like trying to explain colour to a blind person.

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GOBBLESHNOB t1_iu41xw3 wrote

I know a lot about audio. What is objectively better in a more expensive headphone? I don't believe there's anything different besides frequency response and that is easily fixed with eq.

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mr_sinn t1_iu536ur wrote

If you "know a lot about audio" I'm more surprised you need to ask. Go somewhere to try a pair it watch some reviews, there's generally a correlation between price and objective quality of a product

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GOBBLESHNOB t1_iu6n9ox wrote

I'm just curious. What would you say is objectively better in an expensive headphone? I want to see a measurable difference that's audible. Something other than frequency response, because like I said you can very easily eq anything below very high frequencies. Transient response doesn't matter so long as the headphone has a response up to 20khz. Group delay is practically inaudible on the sundaras. THD is inaudible on the sundaras. Soundstage has nothing to do with price as it's based on earpad shape, depth, and driver angle. Resolution is not real, it's just frequency response. A "bad resolving" headphone would have a bad frequency response that masks other frequencies in an unnatural way. I just want to know what you think is objectively better. Looking at the LCD-2s, their frequency response is terrible even compared to the sundaras. The only expensive headphones I'd ever buy would be the dan clark stealths.

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