So This Really Is The End....

In short: i was in the obligation to sell my house suddenly... I loose my music because i loose my acoustic dedicated room which was for the first time of my life pure musical 3-D soundfield... I was sad and depressed, in the tsunami of selling and buying... my health did not improve 10 months ago... and i did not have anything to communicate here anymore...

But to regain joy and music,  i go into headphone, takes 6 months ofr intensive listening experiments and modifications with the AKG K 340... Now i am happy nmore than ever musically and acoustically , in a better health... I missed friendships here... I came back...

Thanks for your kind interest toward me...

I wish you the very best...

@mahgister wondered what happened to you, still don’t have the time to read your posts AB

I was thinking 1972 .... 😁

It seems you are a young mind in an old body...

In the opposite i am an old mind in a young body... at least i felt so...

But i may be wrong and it could be the opposite...

Anyway we are magnets and you are south  and me North or perhaps the opposite...

«We are always two minus one»-Groucho Marx 🤓

@asvjerry 

i am curious of what you spoke about referencing to me in 72 ?

😁

@mahgister ....one thing in common is 72...👍 ...but refuse to do ’gracefully’....

Thanks for your very interesting post and experience...

I come from acoustic room well tuned to headphone by fate as i said... And i never dare to compare my 9 past headphones to my acoustic room... Except the last... Happily it beat my room optimized on many acoustic factors if not all... But my Speakers so good they were in my dedicated room they were not 20,000 bucks speakers ... Gave me 20,000 bucks speakers and any headphone will bite dust because i will tune the room for these specific speakers... But it takes a year of listening session everyday to did it .... I will never did that  again... Life is too short...

The father of my wife a wealthy business man sold all, retire, bought a farm learned how to keep herd of sheeps, learn all about them, even basic veterinary, cooking,  anything  and when he knows everything, he sell the farm after 7 years...

Then he goes making house  alone, or adding section to some in their old style,  not for money but for fun... Samething. he stop after it would be no surprize, except he did my house before retiring definitively...The house i just sold...

Myself without money for an acoustician for sure  i learned basic acoustic by experiments, it takes a year non stop... It was sonic heaven and new fun each day ... I sold the house and i will never invest so much time to do it again... It was fun learning to do it... i will not begin that again it will be no more fun because even if i know how to do it, the time span for the tuning will not decrease...

i stumble on an headphone and learn how to make it as my liking... It takes 6 months because this is the hardest headphone to figure out it right... it is not a ready out of the box one you buy and all is at his optimum level ...

i never tried very good costly IEM... It is too costly to buy 10 of them till i was satisfied as i did with my 10 headphones... And IEM did not had the same shell/room to optimize... I could not modify them for improvement... Then probably to be satiasfied i will be in the obligation to buy many more than 10...Or very. very costlier one... I dont have this money now... And anyway i am more happier than ever for sound quality... Even a real upgrade after computing it will cost me 15,000 bucks... But i can live without anyway...

thanks for your interesting story...

i wish you my very best from my heart ...

@mahgister i haven’t listened to headphones for years, now … only because I’m a single adult male and was able to spend an absurd amount of mooola on a real cool pair of big speakers.

I was way into headphones before I grew my business and got to a point that I could part with the bucks. I remember what a weird, or at least real awkward initial sensation it was to have something shoved down INside my ear canal … at first. And I need to say, my advice is: if you can bite the bullet and force yourself to every day for two weeks, I promise you the day after you will miss them and want to stick them back in so you can listen.

That’s my headphone story. I used to ride a very cool ducati ST2 when I used them and ❤️ed combining long riding sessions with long listening sessions. I’m talking about 500 miles a day, with very high quality tunes the whole way. I do miss it.

The headspace thing, which is akin to soundstage with big speakers, is sort of a different ball game all together. There’s the real advice, right?
I used to use a very soft rubber tip that had 3 flanges that gradually seal off the canal as it slides in. Called a Triple Flange. It makes it possible to easily pressurize the sound field consistently, perfectly, every single time you listen. Now that I’ve been into my big speakers as long as I have, I’d say that part can be equated with having a perfectly controlled and precise soundstage every single time.

I’ll have to do a lil research later, but I think I paid a relatively small amount for my first pair of IEM headphones. And as it turned out they were one of the best for the money audio purchases for me, period.

Especially for well recorded classical or Progressive Rock.

 

Hard to beat for the bang to buck ratio.

Dear roxy54 friend,

You completely miss my point...

First :I do not advocate for headphone i dislike them generally ... I listen to one because i loose my room...I modify it and to my surprize this headphone please me enough to cure my sadness..

Second: I was describing in my above post VIRTUAL ROOM ACOUSTIC which already exist thanks to Dr Choueri ...

In virtual room acoustic, soon assisted by A. I. there will be no sound coming from headphone inside the head , it will be a complete room experience exactly as with speakers but with something on your head...No headphone give that now...Except with the Choueri Dac filters BACCH...

But without headphone and with speakers in the same way and WITHOUT the need for real acoustic treament and mechanic control of the room A. I. will be able to customize the sound before entering the speakers and will balance it for any kind of room even for virtual room it will do it to a level no equalization can do it right now... Choueri filters for example are not standard equalization...

There will be only a cost difference but the same experience with low cost headphone for those who want or costlier speakers for those who prefer nothing on their head...But no difference in sound quality... Thats is my point...

i did not advocate for headphone over speakers , i came to headphone by fate not by choice... Happily i succeed to make my headphone to my liking but most people dont modify headphones anyway ...But now headphone listening so good it is or was is different from speakers listening; confort, acoustic impressions, dynamics etc all is different between headphones and speakers for now ...

But tomorrow  with A. I. virtual room acoustic assistance this difference of acoustic experience will disapear... People will choose headphone or speakers not for sound difference but for difference of cost, less for headphone more for speakers but same sound qualities... That is my point...

Almost in all cases. 99% of the times speakers/ dedicated acoustic room exceed almost all headphone listening in quality ...it is my experience...Headphone are convenient for some and some prefer it because no need to tune any room...

But with virtual room acoustic for speakers or headphones, the difference will be only cost, and the possible unconfort for some people...No difference in soundfield experience will subsist as it is right now before A.I. acoustic assistance ... I hope i made myself clearer...

I forgot to say that speakers in a living room generally dont beat top headphones...But speakers in an acoustic room beat almost if not all headphones NOW on many if not on all acoustic factors it depend of the speakers specs design... With A. I. assistance there will be only cost and confort difference...No more sound experience differences..

@mahgister

".And headphone designed with deepest acoustic knowledge coupled to the Choueri Dac BACCH filter will render speakers in a living room useless..."

I must respectfully disagree. There are many who don’t enjoy the headphone experience, and I am one of them. Regardless of the sound quality, I find them uncomfortable and claustrophobic.

I already put all my albums, thousand in lossless files, beginning decade ago...

It is impossible to store thousand of cd and thousand of books in a small house for two... I did not have even a dedicated acoustic room anymore .... Then i understand the shock of this closure because it is human interaction which is lost...

But anyway the time is already here where A.I. will create  my future  homemade acoustic room and device...And headphone designed with deepest acoustic knowledge coupled to the Choueri Dac BACCH filter will render speakers in a living room useless...No need for audio reviewers save for anecdotal reading... Then no material albums, no speakers and a headphone creating any acoustic soundfield at will in 3-D... At 72 years old probably i will not be able to afford it soon when it will come, but if you are younger you will live with it because it will become affordable...

The greatest revolution right now is A.I. not the economic crisis or the war or pandemic...

But with A. I. it will also increase the lost of human interactive relations... As the tv make it so, and the computer, and now the A. I.

I am not a luddite but human relations are possible only on social sane real public space... There is no more private space versus public space anymore...

Then loosing a fifty years store is loosing something we can call a warming human space...