Joe Brown offers a deconstruction of every positive headphone review ever. It's danceable! [Gizmodo]

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=54300497 Kai Sikorski

    “Blah blah blah blah thumping bass. Punchy midrange. Crystal clear highs. Warm sound. Some shit about female vocals.” 

    Change thumping to tight and you’d also have a review for every pair of audiophile headphones on head-fi.org

  • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

    I laughed. I’m an audio nut but not one of the subjective variety, and these “reviews” are always entirely subjective.

    Headphones often do sound radically different though.  There should be a standard set of tests regarding isolation,  frequency response (on a dummy head), durability and so on.  Magazines like Stereophile are full of flowery ‘philespeak, but they do actually do lab tests.