I auditioned Grado SR-80s back in the day, and found their supra-aural design to be quite uncomfortable as well. I ended up spending more for a pair of Sennheiser HD-590s (and later HD-600s) which were much more comfortable and better sounding. Obviously they are extremely open and not practical for a lot of applications.
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Anyone who is playing typically-compressed MP3âs â and that includes myself â has given up the right to consider themselves an audiophile. A music lover, perhaps, but any claim to high fidelity snobbery is meaningless when the medium doesnât support it.
Of course the fact is that most people either canât hear the difference or arenât worried about it, but thatâs not audiophile as traditionally defined.
(⌠Oh good; just noticed that my current maintenance med has gotten rid of a lot of the tinnitus. It was in an upper frequency I could mostly ignore, but still!)
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Came here to say this, but itâs worth knowing that itâs a decent stereo. My friend owns one and Iâm constantly surprised it sounds so good.
Also, who the hell linked these products? How is it worth Best Buyâs advertising cost to link to the manufacturerâs website instead of the product on their own site. Marketing fail.
@bwv812 this is obviously advertising and they even leave the comments open for us to rail on stuff⌠I donât see the problem here. Also itâs almost definite that Best Buy chose the products, not BB.
Do you have any suggestions of one thatâs worth building (and hopefully available as a kit)?
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Itâs not straight advertising, but a âsponsoredâ post. My ad-blocker gets rid of the traditional advertisments I am always surprised to see when I view Boing Boing on public computers (especially the McDonalds ones), but these sponsored posts still appear.
Itâs also interesting to wonder how this compares to The Atlanticâs Scientology advertorials, previously covered here. Hereâs what Mr. Beschizza had to say back then:
After running Church of Scientology advertorial, The Atlantic has updated its advertising policy. They nail the problem, too.
The Atlantic will refuse publication of such content that, in its own judgment, would undermine the intellectual integrity, authority, and character of our enterprise.
Does this advertisement âundermine the intellectual integrity, authority, and character of [Boing Boingâs] enterpriseâ? Maybe thatâs a pretentious way of looking at it, but itâs certainly not in keeping with the character of what BB does.
Wow. You must really think people are absolute imbeciles if you think that youâre bringing any insight to the table by pointing out that the sponsored post is advertorial. I mean, who would have imagined that a post brought to us by Best Buy and containing no byline would be advertisement, even if it didnât explicitly say it was advertisement (which it obviously does)? Maybe this explains why I never even said this wasnât an ad in my original commentâitâs pretty clear that it is an advertisement, and the fact that itâs an ad doesnât change my point.
On the other hand, it still isnât straight advertisement any more than Frauenfelderâs Toyota sponsored posts are straight advertisements. Can you also read the part of your screen-grab where it says âsponsoredâ and acknowledges it is a âpostâ? I hope you can do that even without any highlighting of those specific words. And can you read the rest of my post where itâs clear that this is different from other forms of advertisement that appear on the site? Any other straw men you want to demolish?
By the way, here are a couple of pure ads that I captured by firing an un-blocked browser. Notice how they are not âsponsored,â nor are they âposts.â
heh, the words âaudiophileâ and âbeats by dreâ in the same article, without a hint of irony. in the same week i saw a deal on audio technica ATH-50s on sale for less than 100 bucks. which themselves arenât exactly âaudiophileâ level, but they kick the everlasting shit out of anything from the Beats camp every day and twice on Sunday. certainly some of the best cans you can have in the sub-$300 level. i myself am a Sennheiser fan, but the AT as well as the Grado stuff is real solid, and much better bang for the buck vs. anything from the ridiculous Beats line. why not just go to an airport Brookstone store and buy Bose? what a joke.
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Moderator note: Advertising on BB can be discussed but stay on topic in this thread. Thank you.
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Budget? âYou Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Meansâ
Quick note: the basic advertorial rule (enshrined in our published policy): if it says ADVERTISING/ADVERTISEMENT they wrote it. If itâs âsponsoredâ, we did and theyâre advertising âagainstâ it with a little graphic or some other arrangement that requires disclosure.
You said itâs not straight advertising, even though it is labelled as such. That is all.
It is not straight advertising, but a sponsored post that caries the Boing Boing imprimatur andâaccording to Beschizzaâs post aboveâwas written by Boing Boing.
OMFG I hate this F quote.
AND I FUCKING LOVE THIS FUCKING QUOTE!
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Objective2 has a DIY kit available, CMOYBB as well. JDSLabs sells them, but Iâm sure you can find others selling them too. Iâve always had good service from JDSLabs, so here are their links.
http://www.jdslabs.com/products/82/objective2-diy-kit/
http://www.jdslabs.com/products/76/cmoybb-diy-kit-rechargeable/
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Thanks dude! Was wondering where all the BB makers were at 
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