"Tony Antoniou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Don't start getting personal because you obviously have
>forgotten that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and same
>rule applies to sound, although it is now in the EAR of the
>beholder. Different headphones will sound differently to
>different people as do speakers and whatnot.
That may be true, but there is no way -- *no* way -- that a pair of Sony
earbuds are the "best sounding headphones that you can buy." Only someone
with bad hearing that couldn't really hear differences between bad, fair
and good 'phones would think so (I'm not being facetious here -- there
are lots of people who really can't tell the difference, and for them,
audio is a much cheaper hobby :-)).
The Sony 888s may be pretty good for earbuds, but they aren't close to
being even the best headphones in their price range (~$70). For the same
price you can get a pair of Grado SR-60s that simply outclass the Sony's.
Of course, to be fair, with the Grados you lose out on some of the actual
advantages to earbuds: size, weight, etc. But the sound will be
noticeably better.
While I agree that "good sound" is often in the ear of the beholder,
there are empirical laws of physics that you can't get around. Getting a
wide, accurate and balanced dynamic range from a driver that fits in an
earbud is simply not possible. Sony earbuds need "bass boost" just to be
able to hear any bass at all, and even then it's not very good. The best
earbuds in the world, the Etymotics, can only produce good bass by
sealing/coupling to your ear canal and using it as a pseudo-enclosure to
produce lower frequencies.
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