makyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The eye opening moments for me were
Listening to $35 Porta Pro headphones and realizing you don’t need a lot of money for great sound
ABX testing and realizing I couldn’t tell the difference AT ALL and certainly couldn’t remember the last sound bite well enough to make a real comparison anyway.
Similar with mp3 bitrate. While I do think I noticed a difference going from 128kbps to 192kbps, anything beyond that I can’t hear a difference for.
Which clearly means I need to dumb 15k into my aound setup because it maxes out somewhere between 128kbps and 192kbps!
Returned them after they kept grabbing hairs
This was my issue with them, back in the day. I loved the sound (minus the leaking), however they were always getting caught in my hair.
Were they comfortable though?
Did they have good noise blocking? Good battery? Good delay? Microphone? Good warranty? Reparaibility? There’s so many reasons to spend a buck extra
TBF if they’re uncomfortable you don’t use them, so that’s a breaking feature.
They don’t block noise. No battery, this is mid-'80s wired tech. There’s a model with a very good microphone. Lifetime warranty. Repairable with super glue sometimes.
I did get aftermarket pads for them but they are not made for long term listening. But that is beside the point - they show you don’t need to spend $1000 to get great sound and they are only one example of that.
I actually just bought a pair of porta pros three days ago—any chance you recall what pads you upgraded to? I’ve mostly seen recommendations for Yaxi
Yep Yaxi, between that and the built in comfort slider in the headphones it’s comfortable enough
About as comfortable as plastic wrapped in a thin sponge can be
ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
The AutoEQ project is all I need for great sound.
Shit’s mindblowing with some headphones I’ve tried that need a heavy EQ. Porta Pros are fairly balanced already so not as mindblowing, but still worth at least checking out the demos on the webpage.
AutoEQ is open source. It’s just EQ settings from analyzing frequency responses of headphones.
percent@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
There’s an extra “.” in your link. Here’s a corrected link for my fellow lazies: AutoEQ
ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Thanks! I also fixed my link.
Have you tried it?