…with no room treatment.

I hate it when people buy systems the price of a house and don’t treat the room. It’s none of my business, of course, but it still runs me the wrong way

I got into the hobby because I’ve always been broke until recently and my family I had always been broke.

When I got my first job it was minimum wage ($8 an hour. This was in 2019-2020) it was the first time I’ve ever had money in my life. And since it paid so low, I had to make sure I spent it correctly.

My family has always gotten cheap everything, and they all had Chinese rip off airpod clones, and all I had was a gaming headset I plugged into my phone. They kept telling me how great Bluetooth was, and how I should get some fake Chinese ones like them.

I eventually decided I would just save up and get real AirPods, and the entire time I was saving I kept hearing “why are you going with that Apple stuff? It’s probably made in the same factory anyway so you are just wasting money”

I pushed through and got my real AirPods eventually, had them try it, now they all have real AirPods

And it was so worth it. The real AirPods blew me away! It started the addiction, and I decided I had to get the best.

Before I knew Bluetooth wasn’t the best audio quality you could get, I tried several Bluetooth headphones. From the AirPods Max to the Sony xm4 (which I had to pay through monthly payments through my mom, and started my debt cycle I’m still stuck in) But something was missing. I did more research and discovered SOUNDSTAGE.

The closed back pairs just sounded too closed in, and I soon discovered open back headphones. I desperately wanted to try them, but I was strapped for cash. I eventually was able to afford the grado sr60x, and they blew me away. Those sent me down the rabbit hole to where we are today.

TLDR: being broke forced me to research more, and the more I researched, the more I became aware of higher audio quality.