• Enkrod@feddit.org
    12·
    23 days ago

    I know this is a meme but… I’m just gonna leave this here:

    The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
    This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

  • starik@lemmy.zip
    9·
    23 days ago

    Isn’t it gross how protagonists will take a helmet off a dead zombie and just put it on without washing it?

    • uss_entrepreneur@startrek.websiteEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      10 or so years ago I read an article that once you get past $100, you start getting diminishing returns on quality. I’m sure that number has gone up tho.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        4·
        23 days ago

        It’s also worth remembering that there’s nothing headphones can do to improve the audio that you put into them, they can only avoid making it worse. If you’re using super fancy headphones, give them good quality audio to work with

    • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      A decade ago, I was working in a big tech office with plenty of headphone enthusiasts. Open-backed cans from like Sennheiser were the expensive gold standard. They sound fine, though since open-back headphones are just head mounted speakers that everyone around you can hear, not especially great for the office.

      My $150 (at the time) VModa headphones sounded just as good to my ears, I preferred that they were tuned for more bass, and they had Bluetooth as an option when I just needed to hear things and wasn’t worried about quality. The Bluetooth battery gave out years ago, and I’ve had to replace the foam ear cups, but the headphones still work fine.

      I’m sure they’re all much more expensive and worse quality now, but yes, generally audio equipment is overpriced to scam people because it’s harder to discern quality in audio. Cheaper headphones paired with a cheap headphone amplifier will sound better to most people than spending twice the combined amount on expensive headphones.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        1·
        23 days ago

        yeah, i just grabbed the cheapest cans that are comfortable with my glasses and called it good. i don’t need to be dropping $400 on a new set of headphones every five or six years (i am rough on mine), i can be happier spending $40 or 50 and replacing the cord every year for a decade