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ecib  ·  4318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Eighth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

So something slightly off topic but related.

My sis works for Harmon Kardon and someone in her group needed some SoundSticks for a conference or trade show, and they were back ordered throughout the entire company. Since I just got a set, I loaned them out. Couple weeks later they returned them and threw me a pair of these headphones:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/636439/akg-k167-ti-sto-discussion-i...

I pretty much spent all weekend next to my stereo listening to music on these. It blew my mind how good everything sounded. The last time I had an actual set of cans over my ears was probably when I was 6 or 7 years old listening to Sesame Street records on my dad's stereo. In this age of crappy ear-buds that come with phones and shitty MP3 formats, I was just blown away at how good music could sound.

If you haven't tried a pair on (or have not in a while), I highly recommend doing so. It completely transforms the sound. Also, it was pretty interesting diving into the headphone subculture on the net. These AKGs had a thread talking about them over 100 pages long. That's just this particular model. Really cool.

Edit: But here is a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMQJ3HXeKG4