Honestly the cheap light ones use to be my favorite walkman headsets back in the day. They suffered the same problems I have with my iPhone buds – broke way too easily.
I often wonder about people that can’t stand less quality music…as a musician, I’m use to music sounding nothing like it does in the studio nor on stage. There is nothing like sitting stage right listening to the symphony, or being in the pit at broadway show, or sitting in while a horn section is finalizing tracks for a new R&B track. NOTHING. There will never be a recording that sounds ANYWHERE as close as this.
And I’m fine with it. Maybe folks with no imagination need as close to accuracy as possible in order to hear the music. Me? Whatever isn’t there I’ll fill in on my own. Recordings are shitty broad brushstrokes regardless of how many bits nor how good the hardware is. But to each their own. I love music and I love the fact that I can get just as much enjoyment out of shit recordings as I can great ones. That said…I know I spent probably hundreds of hours getting mic placements for my own piano and after a while I told my audioengineers that part of my contract was that I set this up – not them. So I get it…but I also don’t!
