My focal spirit pros broke in a similar way, I see their design has not improved at all in the years.

Has hifi man gone down in quality? Asking because I have a pair of 1st gen HE-400s (the blue ones) that I got second hand and they seem to be a really solid build quality and excellent sound. All metal construction, nice headband. No complaints. What happened?

Great post, I think that the rule of thumb for sample rates is twice the highest frequency. Which is why we use 44.1khz and not 22.05 or 20.

Maybe I was being too generous 😂

I’ve decided a lot of time teaching myself audio electronics and that hard work landed me a full time position repairing amplifiers and small signal audio devices. I don’t need to be validated by redditors 🤷‍♂️

I don’t have a degree but I have been teaching myself electrical engineering for the past 3 years. My job I repair amps and small signal audio devices. I know what I’m talking about.

Contrary to what one poster said, there are plenty of characteristics like capacitance and impedance, particularly at low levels, that change through transmission and these characteristics are frequency dependent and difficult to measure.

What about it is hard to measure? Capacitance and resistance of cables are known and most cable manufacturers will post that data on their website.

And if you don’t trust the opinion of professional sound engineers and electrical engineers on this subject, I dunno what to tell you.

Also, people’s memories are extremely flawed. If you change something, the only way to accurately hear the difference is to A/B it with a switcher. It’s really hard to accurately judge the differences between sounds if you’re leaving even a minute between comparisons. The longer you go, the less accurate your recollection will be.

Some people can’t be pursuaded with evidence, placebo/confirmation bias is very powerful.