I once tried to buy replacement pads for my sundara. It was $50 on the hifiman website, with $38 shipping to HK…. Why the hell is a Chinese product cost $38 to ship to HK??? And why does a pair of earpads costs $50???

When I contacted the official hifiman store on taobao to see if they sell replacement (they don’t list replacement parts), what do I know, it costs less than half of the price on the official hifiman store and the shipping was around 35HKD PER KG

I’m convinced that the hifiman website is just there to suck money out of their western customers

Do not, DO NOT, DO NOT spend more money on dac amps than your headphones. I’ve seen people tried to talk newbie up to buy new dac or amp for something like dt770, hd560 etc because the newbie said they didn’t like the sound. Neither dac nor amp will “fix” the headphones that you do not like.

It’s a fake!!! But fear not, I will take it off your hands for free, you don’t even have to waste your effort for throwing them out!

!/j!<

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”.