Why I don't think headphones do it for me anymore...

[TridenT]

Bass.

Nothing beats the feeling of bass vibrating your body with the music.

So I tend to listen to shitty $25 dell speakers over my Sennheiser HD 595s. :/

 

[Sluggo]

Nothing beats the feeling of bass vibrating your body with the music.

Sex beats that handily. You lose.

 

[TridenT]

Sex beats that handily. You lose.

Heroin+Morphine beats that handily. You lose. :thumbsdown:

 

[Alone]

You don't really appreciate how music sounds.

That's ok, though.

 

[Sluggo]

Heroin+Morphine beats that handily. You lose. :thumbsdown:

Like you would have a clue about any of the three.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I'm doubtful those Dell speakers produce much bass themselves, at least enough to vibrate even your scrawny body.

Also there are much better headphones for bass than the 595s. You can get a pair of Sony XB-700s for pretty damn cheap (like $70 easy) and they'll probably give you the bass you want.

 

[TridenT]

It's decent akshually

 

[Capt Caveman]

Heroin+Morphine beats that handily. You lose. :thumbsdown:

And you've never experienced either.

 

[BabaBooey]

Cool story brah,thanks for sharing.

 

[Rubycon]

LOL, bass is one of the reasons to keep listening to earspeakers. The problem with most loudspeakers is bass distortion is atrocious (never mind the awful room acoustics they operate in!). Of course with seriously low frequencies that inadequate speakers cannot reproduce fundamentally comes the second and third order harmonics much higher into the audible range and thus louder. This makes inexperienced listeners such as the OP tricked into believing that inferior is better.

If you want to try something cool; before you have an MRI drink a pint of ferrofluid.

 

[Ns1]

500 watts into a 12" sub inside a small car > your shitty dell speakers

Nothing beats the feeling of bass vibrating your body with the music.

So I tend to listen to shitty $25 dell speakers over my Sennheiser HD 595s.

does not compute

 

[Squisher]

Tuck one of these in your pants.

 

[Rubycon]

500 watts into a 12" sub inside a small car > your shitty dell speakers



does not compute

Yes it might but it also couples yourself in a way that you are actually sitting inside a speaker enclosure. May be great for efficiency/SPL but not very good for musical quality. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

I can tell you all about LOUD. LOUD is good when it's clean. There's not too many systems that can produce 145dB at 5Hz with <1&#37; distortion. I've experienced that in a place made from a fallout shelter. It was like being in a place not of this Earth and gave the feeling of weightlessness, nausea, and hallucination. No drugs, or BS. Funny thing was purely acoustic recordings sounded like any other reference system but if there was something in the bottom it would move you. The floor was always solid under the feet too so it did not have that fake feeling like ass shakers or sitting in some SPL wagon with 20k watts. It cannot be explained easily.

One could definitely torture a person to insanity there.

Oh and this is definitely not the sound of a rumbling tankless water heater in Old's basement!

 

[Ns1]

Yes it might but it also couples yourself in a way that you are actually sitting inside a speaker enclosure. May be great for efficiency/SPL but not very good for musical quality. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

that is why i have 1 12" sub in there and not 2 12" subs: balance. It's a very even system, even at low volumes.

it's the closest I can get to replicating the concert experience.





next system will probably be 2 10's tho, but that's a few years off haha

 

[Schfifty Five]

Heroin+Morphine beats that handily. You lose. :thumbsdown:

You've never done those or had sex ever. You lose.

 

[Rubycon]

You've never done those or had sex ever. You lose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xrbiBjXsCs

 

[TridenT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAMfUJ3tsc&ob=av3e

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[Raduque]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAMfUJ3tsc&ob=av3e

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The bass is not very low in that. It's hitting in my subwoofer, but I wanna say it's around 40hz at it's lowest.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That was one of the great things when I moved out of my parents' house. Ditched the headphones, and used the speakers. Nothing like playing a game or watching an action packed movie with lots of bass. I have low end speakers though, but anything beats headphones.

 

[darkswordsman17]

LOL, bass is one of the reasons to keep listening to earspeakers. The problem with most loudspeakers is bass distortion is atrocious (never mind the awful room acoustics they operate in!). Of course with seriously low frequencies that inadequate speakers cannot reproduce fundamentally comes the second and third order harmonics much higher into the audible range and thus louder. This makes inexperienced listeners such as the OP tricked into believing that inferior is better.

If you want to try something cool; before you have an MRI drink a pint of ferrofluid.

Yeah. There are some that have good quality deep bass that gives me the same mental stimulation that I get from a sub, only I can also hear the rest of the music the texture in the bass - provided its there in the first place and not one note garbage that a lot of "music" has. That's my biggest problem with subs especially in cars or and how most people set them up, its more feel than hear.

Definitely most people do not have things setup for good quality bass. I see a lot of people that think clipping is good as they associate it with putting two crappy subs in their trunk and cranking the bass on their crappy car stereo all the way up. I remember someone was showing off their new 15" sub that they spent a bunch of money on and then seeing them crushed when I showed them that it was clipping. They thought clipping was the desired sound that they were supposed to be going for. They had actually burned a couple of amps and subs and bought the 15" because they though they had been using too much amplifier for their previous subs and that was what had killed them.

Have you heard one of the "fan" subs? I can't recall what they're actually known as, but they look like fans and pretty much they're put in a separate room that functions as the enclosure. I know they're supposed to go way down but I was curious how they actually sounded.

What would be the pinnacle for a sound system to achieve in the low frequencies? I know helicopters are difficult to reproduce (i.e. be anywhere near a Chinook and you'll understand), and canons (I remember reading about a certain recording of the 1812 Overture where people were blowing their speakers due to the canons). Both of those aren't exactly "musical" though. A good pipe organ?

 

[ultimatebob]

Tuck one of these in your pants.

Might be the closest thing he's getting to the touch of a woman for awhile.

 

[darkswordsman17]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAMfUJ3tsc&ob=av3e

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What?

There's nothing really that stands out. Oh wow, they can have a computer run some low frequency pulses and sweeps. Plus anytime anyone in that video opens their mouths I cringe. Goddamn I fucking love autotune. The only thing it offers is if you shut off the volume and when the women are bumping their chests but even that was fail, half of them were flatter than you are.

 

[Raduque]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0wIyIUrCgQ&feature=related

My sub starts seriously playing between 4-9 seconds in, depending on the system volume level.

 

[Matthiasa]

My headphones play it all but its just like pulses until ~5-6 seconds.
Probably related is that I have a headache now...

 

[Raduque]

Sure, you can HEAR it with headphones... but you damn sure can't FEEL it!