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Looks like the Beats Studio 2.0 are going to be my next purchase.
I need Bluetooth, intergration with Siri and a good microphone. Unfortunately no other wireless headphones I have looked into are packing all three.
I have a budget of say, £400 and I am OK going that high. I just need these three things!
Oh, and portable too so I can travel on the London tubes with them on
I need Bluetooth, intergration with Siri and a good microphone. Unfortunately no other wireless headphones I have looked into are packing all three.
I have a budget of say, £400 and I am OK going that high. I just need these three things!
Oh, and portable too so I can travel on the London tubes with them on
Very good choice. How do you find them? Are they a significant improvement over the earlier models?
Ah. My headphones by preference are the B&W range (P5s, which are my day-to-day headphones, and the P7s which are also excellent), but I tried these out in an airport a few months ago, and must say that they are very good. If I didn't already have the B&W (which are excellent) I might have been tempted.
How do you find them?
Always wanted to try out either the B&W P7s or the B&O H6s but I like the "cleaner" sound of the Beoplays. Picked them up at the Apple store and love them so far. Super comfortable.
Actually I haven't received them yet, they're due to arrive on Thursday.
My current IEM collection consists of:
Shure SE535
Shure E500PTH
Shure E4c
Westone 4R (my current favorite)
Westone 3
So I've got quite a few models to compare it to.
Is there any practical reason for owning so many IEMs? If so, what/how do you use each one? Sorry if I sound blunt or rude, I was just curious.
I've had the 80i for a couple years now and they are great. The open design is best for private listening, but the sound quality is amazing.
Well, my P5s are permanently joined to my iPod classic, so I know exactly where you are coming from. (And, as I have posted earlier, the B&W P5s are superb, a masterpiece of clean, elegant, classy design, comfortable, portable, beautifully made, and providing an excellent audio experience). My favourite - ever - headphones.
The P7s are excellent, but - unlike the P5s, which were comfortable from the very beginning, and can be worn comfortably for hours - the P7s need a while to break in. The, they sound superb.
I look forward to reading how you find them, and hope you enjoy them.
No practical reason at all. Audiophile personal audio is just a hobby of mine, and I can afford them. I usually listen to ALAC or hi-res FLAC files pumped through a separate DAC. Even for portable applications like when listening to music on my iPhone or iPod Touch, I rarely if ever directly connect headphones through the headphone jack - I use a Beyerdynamic A200p standalone DAC/amp that makes even lossy MP3 and AAC tracks sound good.
I own a few OEMs, as a drummer it's nice to have some different options for fold back/monitors, and for personal listening also (some used for exercise, some used for rambling around on the train, some used for indoor listening) etc.. I think that makes sense, right?
Edit: Normally, I will stay far away from compressed music, mp3s, etc, I find a lot is lost in the music, especially from the drums.
I kind of gave up on high quality digital formats. I'm just started a vinyl collection and just putting up with iTunes Radio/Match.
I do agree compressed music is awful.
Well, I had hoped that BD-audio would have become a thing, but apparently that's smaller than my.... HDDVD collection.
I feel the same about my video collections, only BD rips for me now.
Yessir absolutely give it a look, the quality is nice. 96Hz, many channels, kind of high Q DTS. Give the wiki a look
Yessir absolutely give it a look, the quality is nice. 96Hz, many channels, kind of high Q DTS. Give the wiki a look
Quality is nice but what about selection?
That's what I was trying to say. It hasn't taken off. The convenience of digital media as opposed to 500MB song tracks is much more popular, so there has been no demand. Last time I checked there were barely a few hundred artist released BD-A's
