Besides the rings i don’t see any green stuff, so if you mean those, it’s just their color, normally they’re black, so they are probably discolored, but it’s normal for them to not be metal, they’re supposed to insulate

it doesn’t tickle my brain or back anymore

try ASMR vidoes, probably the feeling you describe here

I mean the awnser is definitly yes, open backs start with 100% of their max possible bleed so it can’t get any worse, closed backs start with their least possible bleed, so it can only get worse from there

sounds a lot like ADHD symptoms to me, also have it, just live with it, sometimes i don’t even go through a whole song without getting distracted and end up doing something else, don’t try to let it bother you and just do what your brain thinks it wants to do

Eh, i don’t care really, youtube music is good enough for me, it has everything my super weird and nieche music taste likes, and it doesn’t sound horrible, do i get the best quality music? no.
But you could make the same argument for cars, why do people buy 600hp cars or 200+ hp motorcycles when they can only go up to 130km/h (ignoring german gigachads here), precisely because even if you get limited you can still have more fun with it

Comfort wise the HD800S have the be (one of) the best. Probably the lightest TOTL headphone on the market, low clamp force, big earpads (nothing touches your ear)

Some people report problems with the thin headband, but as a owner myself i think this only applies to people with very thin or no hair, if you’re affected by this you need an aftermarket headband thing, that should fix the problem

I don’t care about things like Dolby Atmos at all, it’s just software surround and i’m not using that, don’t care about aptX, no devices i use support it, and basically everything has LDAC these days so i don’t even bother checking for it, the only important things in a phone are the version of android it comes with from the factory, a 3,5mm audio jack, and a few other things like a good fingerprint reader and that the selfie camera is as hidden as possible, i am yet to find a phone without one of those stupid things, so if someone knows a recent phone without a selfie camera, please point me to it, i hate those things

Very likely the Shure SRH440, although i prefer the SRH840s, neither are very neutral so idk why the hell he is wearing those

Dude, you’re in the bloody, EU, how do you have trust issues? Literally everything is in your favour, as long as you buy from an EU store there is no risk

Looking at the FR of the Corsair Void Pros i’m surprised you didn’t consider those things to soudn like tin cans because holy shit that’s one hell of an awful FR these have, you gotta pay me money to own them

you could try go closer with a 1:1 or 2:1 macro lens and a flash to see if there is anything visible, but it’s very likely you don’t have that kind of equipment

Mate, meme-monday was a few days ago, you gotta wait for that, the MDR-Z1R is an actual mid headphone, not even close to TOTL

Clear MGs are 450g, might aswell wear a Planar at that points, it goes right in the “too heavy to be considered” category

The 800S is the single best headphone to ever hit the market, it sounds great, awsome soundstage and most importantly for everyday use, it’s super light, probably the lightest TOTL headphone out there, i am not even listening to classical with it, mostly jPop, Planar fanboys can cry about the 800S bassresponse as long as they want, i don’t have to wear half a kilo brick for 8+ hours a day

I found offers for 28€, but it’s only 5€ difference

I get what your professor mentioned, but the effects he mentioned aren’t really noticeable at the short lengths, with headphone equipment you would need a few hundred meters of cable to start noticing it, I wrote a comment about the same topic recently so I’ll edit this one in a few minutes when I find it

If you’re willing to spend 100€ i’d probably throw another 30€ ontop of it and get the Galaxy Buds2 Pro, if not i’d probably go for the Galaxy Buds2, really not a Sony fan tbh

You should buy nothing, your wife is the one having a problem, she should come up with a solution for herself, headphones for herself would be one, going to a different room while you listen would be another one, plenty of solutions out there, but “i don’t like you listening to music while i am next to you so you need to buy new stuff” is just toxic behavior, if she doesn’t like it she can leave

Sometimes music only, but most often while working/studying, definitly not while gaming, need to hear the game sound

Sorry mate, but you’re not hearing a difference, you’re imagining you’re hearing a difference, the only difference you could hear is if the cable get’s too long, you can calculate it with this formula:
fC = 1/(2 ⋅ π ⋅ R ⋅ C ⋅ 10^(-12) ⋅ d)
fC is the max frequency of your signal
R is output inpedance in Ohm
C is Capcacitance of the cable in pF per meter
d is cable lengh in meters
I 100% guarantee you that you’re not going to get anywhere close to 20khz when you put the numbers in for your cable
For anyone too lazy to calculate it themselves, even if we put pretty much worse case numbers in, like 200pF per meter, 5 ohms output impedance, 10 meter cable lengh, we reach a maximum possible requency of 15.915.507 hz
So yeah, not even close to the cable affecting sound in any way