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I don't know, bro... you may be surprised to how your music sounds on extremely responsive high-quality speakers. Its like getting new glasses or using a computer with lots of megahertzes.

Like I always say...
"You never know what you're missing until you have it, and er...
then you're missing it again..
and um, you're like "man, I wish I had that thing..
that I don't have anymore, but did after I didn't have it in the first place...
yeah, that was cool."

yep.
that's what I always say.

uh, gotta go

Yeah, I can dig what you're, umm, saying. I think.

I thought about it some more after I posted this, as I was driving in the car listening to Brad Mehhldau through the factory-issued, five-year-old speakers. And yeah, listening to my music through an ultra-hi-fi set of headphones/speakers would be great, but it's just not convenient. There's lots of other things I could do with that money. Like, for instance, go see live shows of the artists I like.

Umm, the only problem with what I said above, as I sit here listening to John Coltrane: he's dead.

this guy's a complete moron. there are sounds that earbuds simply cannot reproduce, & those who actually expect convincing fidelity & appropriate bass response from a pair of speakers measuring less than half in inch in diameter probably deserve to be conned.

for clarification purposes, a 20hz-20000khz range is less than impressive, & that's being kind. the pair i use for most of my sound production activities, for example, has a 5hz-30000khz range--& currently retails for less than $170.

Care to make an endorsement?

I use a pair of these:
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?CategoryName=acc_Headphones_CDSeries%2FStudioMonitor&ProductSKU=MDRV600

which are nice as long as I hold my head perfectly still. The "convenient folding mechanism" gets all creaky if I move my head around at all, which can be highly annoying.

Anything Koss sells is golden. If they break, send 'em $8 and they send you new ones! How cool is that? Plus they're high-quality. Right now I'm using a pair of PortaPros but only because I was getting really annoyed at lugging around the otherwise-preferable fuckoff big cans. But I've had those, and they're good, too. (Specifically, Koss TD-61s.)

I don't know, harm...
Obviously the ideal situation for listening to your tunes (short of sitting next to the actual performer live, of course), is in a sound proof room with your 12 inch powered monitors that can reproduce sounds thousands of Kilohertzes beyond the human hearing range. However, the author of the article is talking about listening to your music on a noisy train without carting around your sound-proofing panels, your amplifier, and thousands of feet of extension cords. Although I haven't experienced the earbuds in question, I wouldn't write them off as impossible to produce convincing fidelity and bass response simply because of their size. My eardrums are not nearly twelve inches in diameter and yet I believe I get pretty good fidelity and response from these guys.

Now, if my audio prof. ever learns that I defended earbuds or used the term "kilohertzes", I deny categorically that I ever wrote this comment.

um.. someone else did. not me.

I'll leave the discussion of what you can and can't hear w earbuds to you (semi-?)professionals.

But the point of this dude's article isn't about listening to music on the train. It's about audiophilic snobbery: equating quality and taste with the amount of $$ you spend.

so this is two months later and everything, but i use a pair of 700s: basic issue for everybody who even half-fancies themselves to be a producer or dj. been using for over 4 years now, with absolutely no complaints & virtually no wear & tear.