The Head-Fi Healing Thread

I really hate comments like yours because I can already see the new site circlejerk where everything on Head-Fi is awful and terrible and then I found SBAF where everything is awesome and full le free thinkers. I see this kind of stupid absolutism in gaming mice where someone stops buying Razer mice because they were recommended Zowie who market very differently. Now suddenly Razer is complete shit and Zowie is the best thing ever even though people who know a lot about gaming mice generally don't like Zowie for a variety of reasons and can praise Razer in some respects. Zowie is nowhere near perfect and Razer is not completely awful.

Head-Fi is not awful and there is plenty of great content there but it does have a very low SNR which is not surprising considering the traffic and not something that can be fixed by moderators. SBAF is in many respects the same as Head-Fi as both are built on unprovable subjectivity. Just differing hiveminds on what is good and what isn't but dare I say that if SBAF doesn't have a layer of arrogance on it's own opinions now then it certainly will gain it over time from the influx of members who discovered this cool underground audio site.

Then again this kind of stupidity is only furthered because you can't mention SBAF on Head-Fi. Jude doing a great job of building a counter-culture against Head-Fi as always. Banning the weed/alcohol just ends up making it look more attractive to teens.

 

Yeah.. tonight, I am listening only to tiny (audio) equipment.. using my Mojo hooked up to my Vali 2 for the joy of it. Sounds weirdly good, enjoying the sounds

 

Pre-Huddler Hype-Fi was still fun and more signal than noise. Thing was, Emperor Jude wanted a bigger empire and V-Bulletin was not good enough for a platform. That place changed in terrible ways.

Emperor Jude can have his empire. Some people left this empire and I can understand why.

 

Shogun Assassin move right there. Glad that ended fast.

 

DICK MODE ENGAGED

 

I think this might sum up how a lot of people feel about your comments:

 

Dreyka is kind of a known (awful) quantity over on Reddit. I'm glad to see him with the red stripe.

 

Zaktly, a first class dynamic IEM from an outfit who clearly know how to build and tune IEMs is quite exciting. It's hard not to be really curious to see what they manage to come up with. I think it's more extreme nerd curiosity than anything; most people are fully prepared to pan something they hate, whoever made it.

 

Reading Dreyka's criticisms of SBAF is strange, because he actually posts a ton of links to SBAF content and measurements over on Reddit.

I thought he liked this place, given how often he mentions and links to SBAF over there.

 

Which makes his constant citing of our humble forum the pinnacle of hypocrisy. He only likes himself and his ill-formed opinions.

 

Wow that escalated quickly. Not sure what is wrong with the world nowadays, it seems everyone gets triggered very easily over words and personal opinions. Can't we all be like Mr. Hugh Mugus? Keep on walking.

To be fair, Reddit/headphones do have a lot of helpful, knowledgable and reliable posters. So does Head-fi. The problem is the amount of time it takes to get genuinely valuable information from there.

Frankly in this Audio world, many of the topics and technology has been discussed elsewhere on the internet many years back and many topics in SBAF are simply rehashes of the same thing in a different perspective.

Maybe we can use this thread to sniff out useful threads/post in headfi/Reddit/elsewhere that is worth our time to read.

 

Currawong deleted my posts and threatened to delete my account when my mate and I pulled his wa234 apart and found lot's of shoddy stuff and reported it on head-fi... He did the same thing when I linked someone to the head-case thread where they pull apart a cavalli amp and find it is a cheap POS.

Funnily enough he didn't delete the posts when someone posted EC stuff they weren't happy with.

This was all about 2 years ago..

 

Yeah, there are quite a few knowledgeable r/headphones regulars that I'd love to see on SBAF.

It's a shame because that place could be a genuinely valuable audio community if the content moderation approach was a little stricter than it is now. There used to be lots of friendly people who had clear, substantive impressions to share there, but they've all been drowned out by the mass of repetitive, individual-focused posts that get protected in the name of beginner friendliness. It's too bad, because the place has markedly declined in quality as a result.