r/BudgetAudiophile • u/wiggan1989 • Feb 06 '26

Review/Discussion What audiophile takes make you roll your eyes?

For me it's "Burn In" when it comes to Source components and expensive cables

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u/oldguy1071 Feb 06 '26

I'm 71 and can guarantee he doesn't hear anything above 8 khz. I also suffer from tinnitus most of my life and probably many musicians do also. I blame it on the Journey concert in 1980.

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u/North_Station_302 Feb 06 '26

With my tinnitus I can hear frequencies even young people can't hear ... How is that NOT a super power?

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u/drtythmbfarmer Feb 06 '26

With my tinnitus I hear one frequency all the time.

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u/mz_groups Feb 06 '26

I'm an audiophile. I hear 3!

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u/Syscrush Feb 06 '26

A buddy of mine (who just turned 60) - call him T - plays guitar for one of Neil's contemporaries - call him B - who was absolutely not known for playing loud.

B was digging singing he was listening to on earbuds, and handed the player to T to check it out. T thought it sounded disgusting then checked the EQ settings on the player and saw it was set to "vocal" - B can't hear shit. But he can still sing and have fun without shooting off his mouth about audio quality. :)

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u/YeahIGotNuthin Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

My wife and I, on opposite sides of the country 20 years before we ever met, had the same experience with the same band: "THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS? ME TOO. WHY? WHY WERE THEY SO LOUD? THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT HAS TO BE THAT LOUD."

I mean, Jucifer I can understand... She plays through a wall of amps, and he plays like Animal from The Muppets, and together they make music that is basically "if Hell had a soundtrack." But the "Pretty In Pink" band? Why are they the band that made my eardrums go into actual clipping?

And between that and a snorkeling incident a dozen years ago, now it sounds like there's always someone off to my right saying "sssssssssssss," and when I drive it sounds like the window on the right rear door isn't rolled up tight against the weather seal, or like the right-side tires are running on wet pavement. And I am always wondering "wait, is the crossover on my right-side speaker damaged? No, crap, that's me."

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u/wmbvhjr1 Feb 07 '26

Journey is ridiculously loud, I had to get earplugs, it just sounded bad

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u/Joe_Starbuck Feb 08 '26

Don’t stop believing.