Jude E-peens Tyll and Gaslights Us with Alternative Facts

Of course SBAF has influence! At heart, SBAF and HF are members of a larger shared community.

The reason why there appears to be two different and separate communities is because of Jude. In the early days, when relations were better, all members of CS were also ACTIVE members of HF. I got ticked off at Arnaud once and told him off on CS and HF in way that I probably shouldn't have; and the next thing I know I get this e-mail from Jude saying what a nice person Arnaud was, waiting in the rain for 17 hours at the train station to greet Jude, followed by an insane your "f'ing" this, your "f'ing" that. Jude totally went apeshit on me.

I deleted the message immediately upon feeling his pent up rage. You know, sort of like hanging up the phone with someone who has gone bonkers on you. That incident made more sense years later when people told me of how Jude would go off me for HOURS at a time on how I was trying to destroy him. We are talking about several different people. Like more than four five. I really can't say who they are because I don't want to get them into trouble. We are talking SPECTRE Christopher Waltz Bond Villain personality. Totally pathological, and when things don't go according to plan, he goes totally apeshit, because 007 has once again ruined his evil machinations.

Anyway, point is, deep down inside, we are all still Head-Fi'ers. Not the brand, but you guys know what I am talking about. Our sentiments are heard and even shared at HF by many (they mostly keep quiet). The divide is really an artificial one created by Jude. His policies makes direct communication and bridging differences that much more difficult. The fact that Jude and OutragedJeff (or whatever that guy's handle) read this thread (and SBAF) vociferously, and some of us are keeping up with the thread at HF, show that we are not truly divided. Divided with opinions sure, divided as enthusiasts, no.

 

Note that he used "musical" and not "accurate". Or how he later talked about depth of the Z1R and...nothing else about it. Wait...headphone depth?

They must have a really shitty sounding studio! (Does anyone have experience with those speakers to comment?) Either that or they have shit hearing and think everything sounds awesome.

But he also says his involvement in the Z1R was minimal in terms of the final product...so...do they sound like the studio or not?

And they use a large variety of headphones in the studio? All of them? I later go down and see the MDR-1R mentioned, which is FAAAR from reference sounding in almost every possible way imaginable (and was specifically tuned with a 100Hz boost, as I recall, among it having other "musical" aspects to the sound). From what I've read from reputable folks, the 1A wasn't a revelation either.

This sounds like a product plug! The guy works with Sony, ooohh, and all these other people like them, so, yeah, buy them! So goooood!

 

Gotta love Amos' comment (allow me to paraphrase):

1. Tyll shouldn't have called them bad because so many HF'ers love them.
2. They were too shitty in certain ways for me to buy them

 

That's pretty much what he said in his Youtube review. And pretty much spot on agreed with Tyll in his evaluation.

Amos pretty much called them shitty, in a more round about sort of way.

 

Whatever sells man. It's Jude's word-of-mouth add space.

It's OK. If you were bamboozled into buying some random kilobuck one-of-a-kind-colouration shit-cans you can always wax lyric on Head-Fi for 2 days about how you creamed all over your bedroom, and sell them because your neighbor's grandma's sister's nice's daughter's got the flu and you need the funds to save her.

 

My main beef with Sony is that they weren't creative enough with their "beautiful" sound approach for the Z1R. A lot of bass, an accidental narrow upper treble spike, a sprinkle of zing. Lame. Any kid could have sculpted that response. The cup design and controlled internal reverb was a nice touch, but the Z1R lacked a weird sort of eff'd up mid-range to take full advantage of that. Finally, I think a more peaky approach in the bass, rather than a simple bass shelf lift would have been a more definitive touch. The zing can stay.

 

I'm just not part of the Facebook generation that believes in garnering public sympathy, particularly by people who make bad decisions in life and then unashamedly advertise to strangers on the Internet how dumb they are not like paying taxes ASAP and spending $2300 on stupid headphones instead of saving up for expenses for taking care of an kid with special needs. (EDIT: As I skim posts, I was unaware of the exact condition, someone informed me so I could make a suitable correction).

Who's the real dickhead here? Trust me, any parent here on SBAF would be horrified at this level of parental irresponsibility and selfishness - this living in the moment shit.

I've said time and time again to people here on SBAF: Do not participate in this hobby if you are not of sound mind and sound finances. This hobby will DESTROY YOU if you don't have your shit together. As a rando, you just don't hear about this stuff, but quite a few former members have already self imploded because of this hobby. Being central to this forum, I hear about ALL of it. It's extremely sad and hard to hold in all of it.

What you are suggesting is idiot compassion. Once you grow a little bit older and wiser, you learn that idiot compassion is not true compassion.

If I were him, I'd sell all that shit and be happy with a Schiit Fulla 2 or Douk Nobsound DSD and a TH-X00 and eat ramen noodles. Been there before. I can eat bitter and have eaten bitter. There is stuff so personally painful that even close friends here don't know about it. Randos on the Internet don't have a monopoly on suffering.

 

The f'ing dickheads are strongly recommending against buying a Z1R. Specially to a single parent with reduced income and a little one.

Don't buy overpriced shit-cans like that. Focus on the little girl. Family comes always first.

(Also avoid HF. It's not always a good influence for a guy in a situation as described above.)

 

yah, the dude had a life altering financial crisis within 6 hours of his postings/critical-need to sell these amazing cans and we're supposed to give him a hug for waking the F up and not fiscally planning ahead.
Darwin for the win is my book.

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