$130 😂

The better the gear, the deeper you into go into the rabbit hole, and further reveal details into repressed memories.

I feel like my ears are broken. So many people love the Elite but I didn't. I A/B'd them next to the LCD-5 for a week and the Elite (IMO) is a significant step down in sonic attributes. I perceived its imaging to be blobish in comparison.

Just me though and hope you enjoy your set immensely.

I clicked on it happy to try it. I have ER2SE in my ears

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With good separation headphones listen all your favorite song at once, ex: Foo Fighters

You are depressed because you listen to too much music.

I am depressed because I listen to my headphones too much.

we are not the same.

Yes, no... But no, yes

This study brought to you by Capitalism Death Cult™ Are you not working 16hrs a day ? Do you have enough time and money from being a slave to a dying technocrat world to listen to songs that remind you of times that weren't filled with orange man inbreds and a pandemic while inflation/recession stuff a pineapple straight unlubed up your ass ? SOUNDS LIKE DEPRESSION CIVILIAN. YOU SHOULD GET A 3rd JOB.

So it predicts depression, but no mechanism has been determined. So we still don't know the mechanism.

And it depends on the person

Here's another study that shows that

Abstract: "Research suggests that negative moods may be associated with attraction to negative emotion in music, a finding that runs counter to mood management theory. Despite such evidence, no study has examined how and why people who have clinical depression listen to music. Qualitative thematic analysis was conducted with textual responses from 294 online survey respondents (148 with depression and 146 without depression). Findings revealed that people with depression were more likely to use music to match or reflect mood or to express emotion, while those without depression were more likely to use music for energy and inspiration. Negative emotion in music enabled some to attend to negative emotion, with subsequent dissipation of negative mood. For others, it was connected with negative cognition and a worsening of negative mood."

So the answer is that the human brain is too complicated to understand things like this yet. More research is needed to reach a conclusion. It's even a successful coping mechanism for some percentage of the population

Please don't make any unwanted life changes based off of this evidence homies. It's a decision to make for yourself until we have more information. But yes, if you listen to an above average amount of music, you are more likely to develop depression. Again, the mechanism of this is unknown and it depends on the person

Abstract: "The purpose of the current study was to observe how music affects the mood of those who suffer from anxiety and depression and those who do not. While previous research has examined this many of the previous studies have induced either physical pain or mood in participants in order to measure the impact of music. The current study, however, intends to examine how music affects mood without attempting to induce mood in participants. Six-hundred and seventy college students were given a questionnaire containing an anxiety questionnaire, depression scale, demographic questionnaire, and music listening questionnaire. Intercorrelations, ANOVAS, as well as linear regressions were performed on the data and results for the study were significant in that music was found to impact participant’s anxiety and depression. Results of the current study indicate that participants’ preference for alternative music and soundtracks/showtunes impacted their level of depression and anxiety."

Tell me something I didn't know, RapTV.

Just listen to a different song in each ear ez

Hmmmm

I only listen to dull hums at a desired frequency

Isolation.

I have great speakers but my wife prefers to watch shitty TV. I can't read when she watches shitty TV. The music she likes on my speakers annoys me. She doesn't like my friends and her friends talk about being close to Jesus and the path to Godliness.

I'm in a fortunate position to be living next door to my wife. She complains that she can hear my speakers.

I love her but I've chosen headphones.

It’s going to depend on the headphones and it’s going to depend on the glasses

I’ve tried a lot of headphone stands but have been generally unhappy with them for one reason or another. I recently ordered/received this stand from Woo Audio and I’m really happy with it. My Focals fit the top curve very nicely and the overall build screams quality.

As for the headphones, I’m pretty late joining the Focal party, but they are some of my favorites. I use them mostly while I’m on the computer, listening to music, watching YouTube, and the occasional movie.

Tonight am going to refuse the ride home from my colleagues and go home walking just so I can listen to my brand new S12 smoking haze for a couple of hours in the piece of the night. How much depressed am I?

I don't listen music, I test headphones.

Specifically montlhy hyped chi-fi iems.

*Me that listen to Doom Metal for hours if possible*

Y’all trying to make depression attractive.

I wouldn’t say so. I’d go with the Elites and then spend the $3k elsewhere 😃. I could be perfectly happy with the Empyreans, though, if the Elites didn’t exist.

Then I'm depressed then... Cos I listen to music A LOT!

Dankpods, is that you?