You can’t name a single headphone that has consistent reviews here. And not only that the reviews aren’t consistent, they are compeletly in contrast to each other and you can’t get any useful info on products because of that. I’ve been looking around for a headphone that i can upgrade to and after 2 weeks of watching reviews on YT and reading people’s opinions here, I am pretty much convinced that there is no point in reading nor watching the reviews here and YT.
I also do not understand the overly negative feelings people have towards different headphones. It almost feels like 75 percent of reviewers here are just fan-boys of a single brand and are trying to destroy other headphone brands.
And I’ve been into the hobby for about 4 years now and I know the terms people use and what they by them, so no I’m not confused by terminology or anything like that, I’m just frustrated by everyone here thinking they are absolutely right about everything (sometimes even about things they haven’t even tried)
Isn’t fr graph the headphone equivalent of flavor wheel tho? You can kinda cross reference the headphones in question with the headphones you own to get an idea of what that reviewer is talking about. Also, like others have said, you can pick reviewers that align with your tastes more.
To me, the coffee community is sometimes wayy more snobbish and susceptible to placebo and misinformation. Like for example, people have been saying hiss is no good for aeropress, you need to pre-rinse the filter, you need to do pre-infusion etc. Then Hoffman comes around, did a blind test and found out that there is no or very minimal difference in taste for doing all those (he believed in the hiss thing before this too iirc)
Also, tasting a new coffee is just a matter of $10-$30 for a bag/a cup. It’s easy for people to “accumulate” their experiences. For headphones, people are shelling out something from $20-$2000++ for a new headphones. You can easily why an average joe on Reddit can’t have that much reference point to do a proper “review”.