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Headphone Recommendation

SylveonPaoe
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In need of some headphone recommendations, but I`m from Brazil, so the headphones that I saw being recommended are completelly out of budget, I know almost absolutely nothing about audio, the only 2 things that I need is for it to be wireless and have a microphone

My last one was a Corsair Virtuoso that got RMAd for bad earpads, it pressed my head quite a bit

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5 minutes ago, SylveonPaoe said:

headphones that I saw being recommended are completelly out of budget

 

5 minutes ago, SylveonPaoe said:

Corsair Virtuoso

...so what is your budget? Gaming, around 100$?

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On 3/13/2025 at 9:33 PM, SylveonPaoe said:

headphone recommendations

Look through some models that are in your budget and look through this list to find the sound frequency output of that model.

 

I believe you'll want to find a more nuetral sound.  I think all these uneven sounds are due to cheap mass-production and that's just the cheap stuff peiple can sell for literally thousands of dollars if they string a few marketing sentences together in just the right way.

 

https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq/tree/master/results/

 

When you find a headphone model that interests you, click on it in that list, then scroll to the bottom of the page.

 

Try to find something without sharp and numerous spikes in the treble, or it will either time-consuming or not easily possible with simplistic fixed-freqency slider to equal out to a neutral sound.

 

If there (and there will be) rises in the treble, find a model that is q smooth hill, and if treble goes down smoothly, it is much easier to bring it back up, vs certain portions of treble being quiet, and others being loud, flip flopping throughout the entire treble range.

 

So avoid spikes in the charts, and if there are more than a couple or so, just move on to another model.

 

If it were mandatory for all manufacturers to post these sound charts, we wouldn't have this issue because it would force all speaker designers to do better and use higher quality components.

 

So this let's you disregard all the marketing lies and see exactly what the actual quality of the sound is.

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How bad is e-waste?  Listen to that Joe Rogan episode.

 

"Now you get what you want, but do you want more?
- Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration album 1976

 

Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

Software suggestions


Just get f.lux [Link removed due to forum rules] so your screen isn't bright white at night, a golden orange in place of stark 6500K bluish white.

released in 2008 and still being improved.

 

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, Choose dev tools amd click preview mode.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger addons can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.  Most software in the repository only requires Android 5 and 6!

 

I recommend firewall apps (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirect all dns requests on android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu/Debian, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to any device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.  This style of network filtration is being overridden by software updates on some devices, forcing a backup dns provuder, such as google dns, when built in dns requests are not connecting.  Without a complete firewall setup, dns redirection itself is no longer always effective.

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