Some people just seem to truly not care about audio and video quality. Personally I need quality content as realistically reproduced as possible to survive...but I'm a whackadoodle...
Looking at a bright side, it means you don't have to buy your mom another Starlett or Stellaris next Mom's day. Not 100% bad..
Honestly I can't blame general public too much as I myself do the similar things to camera.. (I don't often tell a difference of super expensive configuration over way cheaper iphone pros)
Hearing is way different from active listening, haha. Have had family members be unable to distinguish between the HD800 and the HP-3 when I had the Senns on loan, you'd think the bass or headstage differences would mean something, no?
Sometimes it's rigorous and self-evident, other times it's like wine tasting— you have to be told what to look for.
They probably think you're nuts with a 20lb tube amp, megabuck headphone with cables and everything. Portability, BT and ANC is what passes for quality these days. It makes it sound good !
When I switched from the ATH-M50X to the HD600, for the first week with Senns I thought, "What is all the fuss about?" They didn't do much for me. Then maybe ~7 days in, something clicked and I could never enjoy the M50X again. Like Mike Moffat says, differences sometimes add up, or integrate over time.
Well not everyone looks for soundstage, imaging or even tonality and timbre. Also the music that many listen to don’t showcase these strength of TOTL gear
Preference is one thing. People prefer what they prefer, and that is their right, even if what they prefer is crap.
But hearing no difference? Leave aside subtle differences of electronics to practised listeners, /transducers/ just sound different. Maybe those people think that all bands sound the same.
Another point that hasn't been mentioned yet, more resolving and revealing audio equipment sometimes makes favorite songs sound awful. Case in point, I like early Taylor Swift songs (judge away) but find them painful to listen to on my desktop headphone setup because of the distortion and compression.
Also, I've found Dubstep, Trance, and other electronic music sounds better, to me, on my less resolving closed backed Maddog pros than my modified open DT880s. I personally find my mid-range headphones work best for certain types of music and not others. YMMV since you have higher end gear.
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