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Posted 22 February 2013
Sennheiser Momentum Headphones £129.99 In HMV - Apparent Misprice
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In HMV Cheltenham, these sumptuous cans were marked at £259.99, not blue crossed. Some other cheaper ones were blue crossed with a sign on the wall saying up to 40% off, including some Bose AC3s.
I thought I might as well give it a shot so i took these up as well as the Bose ones. The guy told me the Bose were only 20% off but for some reason these were going through at half price. Needless to say I jumped at it. He said it was a misprice on the national computer and they were only supposed to be 10% off. £260 seems about right online going by Google shopping.
Great review here - whathifi.com/rev…tum
£155.99 when I bought a pair today.
- anewman
I thought I might as well give it a shot so i took these up as well as the Bose ones. The guy told me the Bose were only 20% off but for some reason these were going through at half price. Needless to say I jumped at it. He said it was a misprice on the national computer and they were only supposed to be 10% off. £260 seems about right online going by Google shopping.
Great review here - whathifi.com/rev…tum
£155.99 when I bought a pair today.
- anewman
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sorted byNope what it means is you have have no idea how good music sounds through a decent set of cans so you carry on listening through your Poundland earphones so you can spend your spare money on your booze and fags kidda....
You obviously dont appreciate good audio quality.
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No, but at least he was polite and didn't feel the need to shout about some frankly poor status symbols.
Not with literacy.
You, Sir are unquestionably among the higher echelons of a refined society. You are also a dick.
You need to be put down.
100k a year and you sit on hotukdeals and have keyboard fights?
100k a year and you don't know how to capitalize. (yes a pun xd)
Anyone who owns a nice car doesn't refer to them from the country they are produced, at any opportunity they drop the make/model because it makes them hard. I own a pretty rocking mountain bike and even I drop the name of that on occasion in a similar fashion (customized Specialized FSR XC) :P
You bang on about your oils way too much, I have about 6 different oils in my kitchen because I can cook and you can't do everything efficiently with one type of oil, especially that stuff in the link.
Comparing Primark t-shirts to CK is like comparing an ice cold Budvar to an ASDA(just sprang to mind) own brand warn can of lager. Also what would one be doing even walking into Primark in the first place?
While we are sharing I earn about 25-27k a year own a pair of AKG 460s, shop in Sainsbury's, have one mid range Toshiba TV, a HTC one X, 1 french car(not forgetting the MTB bike) and 4!!! yes 4!!! pairs of Calvin Klein boxer shorts! I think looking at a ratio of wage to lifestyle i'm living the **** dream compared to you!
One day sir Jesus will swoop down from his perch that is your ego and rip out your (obviously massive) gonads to feed them to your imaginary wife who has a GG bust and wears nothing but £1000 designer bikinis while hand delivering you coconut oil covered protein bars that where purchased from ASDA by one of your German man servants.
BTW Heat from me, ill check this deal out I could do with some full size cans like these.
These headphones are
FOR P@RN!
Lmfao! Look out everyone, he shops @ Asda. We are not worthy your Lordship. I say your the Messiah and I should know, I've followed a few!
Surely if you are using them day to day that's a good reason to stump up. 3p/day if you use them for 10 years.
One snag with these cans is the cable is 10cm less than the distance from my stereo to my PC chair. Hence the angle of the avatar
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What a T*t
mp3 quality is only half the problem. Much of modern music is recorded and mastered pretty poorly. The Vaccines debut is a good example of a badly mastered album and good headphones will make issues very clear.
But on the whole, 256-320kbps will be adequate for most folks uses and for most of the headphones out there up to £300 or so.
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If you register them on Sennheiser's website, you get 5 years part and labour.
Club Orpheus
People who can afford to? who pays £30 for a bottle of wine? maybe more people than you realise...
I used to be a non-believer for a long time. But I got converted and bought a set of very nice speakers that used to retail for 2k+£. I get questions like "how many watts?" - maybe only 50W Sine wave power and uncountably more Watts PMPO. When I turn them up people are amazed and shocked, because their BOSE speaker sound like crap compared to them. The clarity, the spatial resolution, it is like you are standing directly in front of an orchestra playing just for you. You can hear the singer opening her mouth and breathing ever so clearly. It is almost spooky.
Obviously you won't be able to appreciate good speakers/headphones if you use your iPhone to play back some (badly ripped) MP3's. But in that case you should also mix a Grand Cru Bordeaux wine with Coke...:D
.......NOT just any p@rn ........ HMV p@rn
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head over to head fi for more info, you will be surprised that the iphone has really good audio internals, just that they were designed to supply in ear plugs rather than headphones. spend £50 on a decent set of in-ears rather than headphones for an iphone. mp3's can be just as good quality as the cd so long as its a decent bit rate, etc. and you are using a decent app like EQU to play them through. head over to head fi if you want to learn more.
absolute rubbish, your making mp3 out to be audio cassette quality when it is not, sure it is not FLAC, but it doesn't need to be if your using a decent audio processing app, I use Neutron MP on android, it plays all my 320kbps mp3's crystal clear.
No, that was just your experience and may well have been down to you actually being a bit of a tool. Always dangerous to take your egocentric experience and apply it to everyone else...
Far from it. I'm self employedand last year made a profit over £100k and my lifestyle reflects that. Don't judge a book by it's cover, but I wouldn't be spending £100 on earphones. I only listen to music through my iPhone. Like I said, not hot or cold for me, I just don't see the point.
In terms of your diet it's better not to eat any cooking oils or butter. You should just eat clean foods and plenty of protein. I generally spend about £50 a week on protein bars. Far from cheap but people can eat what they want can't they - we all have different dietary targets, but what's that got to do with the price of earphones.
Shop at Asda hey. How the other half live..........
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Not sure but, will be 50% in those shops earmarked for closure.
The latest 37 HMV stores identified for closure are:
Ashford, Basildon, Bolton, Cheltenham, East Kilbride, Enfield, Folkestone, Glasgow Argyle, Gloucester, Grimsby, Hatfield Galleria, Heathrow T5 Departure Level, Heathrow Terminal 1, Heathrow Terminal 3, Heathrow Terminal 4, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe, Isle of Wight, Lancaster, Leadenhall, Mansfield, Middlesbrough, Newbury, Newcastle Silverlink, Newport, Nuneaton, Redditch, Salisbury, Scarborough, Southport, Stafford, Staines, Stockport, Swindon, Taunton, Torquay, Woking.
The 66 stores already earmarked for closure were:
Ashton-under-Lyne, Ballymena, Barnsley, Bayswater, Belfast Boucher Road, Belfast Forestside, Bexleyheath, Birkenhead, Birmingham Fort, Blackburn, Boston, Bournemouth Castlepoint, Bracknell, Burton-upon-Trent, Camberley, Chesterfield, Coleraine, Craigavon, Croydon Centrale, Derry, Dumfries, Durham, Edinburgh Fort, Edinburgh Gyle Centre, Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh Princes Street, Edinburgh St James, Falkirk, Fulham, Glasgow – Fort, Glasgow – Silverburn, Glasgow Braehead, Huddersfield, Kirkcaldy, Leamington Spa, Leeds White Rose, Lisburn, Loughborough, Luton, Manchester 90, Moorgate, Newry, Newtonabbey, Orpington, Rochdale, Scunthorpe, South Shields, Speke Park, St Albans, St Helens, Stockton-on-Tees, Tamworth, Teesside, Telford, Trocadero, Wakefield, Walsall, Walton-on-Thames, Wandsworth, Warrington, Watford, Wellingborough, Wigan, Wood Green, Workington, Wrexham.
MP3 is indistinguishable from lossless/cd at sufficient bitrate. People will say they can tell the difference, but blind tests show different.
The quality of mastering is a good point though. Have a read through this. http://web.archive.org/web/20071230101658/rollingstone.com/new…ity The short of it is music is mastered to sound good through carp speakers, with the dynamic range reduced and volume set as high as possible.
That is a useful site to find out how compressed (badly mastered) a cd,download or record is.
Gill Scott Heron? The Fin Brothers?
Sorry to be slightly on topic but actually these are designed for portable use. Thats why they' have an 18ohm impedance (sp something like a phone or mp3 player can supply enough current to get them loud enough)
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Let me go see. Or at least hear...
Definitely clearer throughout the range; not quite as loud but with a fuller (but more communicative) bass. They are certainly a step up from the AKGs, though unless you're listening in near-perfect conditions, you'd be hard pressed to notice the difference
Build quality and comfort are certainly better too, which is quite important to me as I listen with headphones for 8-10 hours a week
More complete review here:- hifiheadphones.co.uk/for…tml
Cable is on the left ear.
Thanks for the heads up, I managed to get the last pair of Momentums this morning. I even managed to get an extra 10% discount as they were the last ones. £140 is not a bad price at all!
Yep scanned at the till at £233. I think I give up, already been to three stores now.
I think the Amperiors are considered hi-fi and momentum's mid-fi. Amperiors more accurate and detailed but don't sacrifice bass impact. Momentums have a more laid back sound which is probably why it doesn't appeal for professionals and audiophiles. Momentums are over ear, amperiors on ear. Amperiors functional whereas the momentums are beautiful! It depends what floats your boat really. I have both and love them both in different ways! Luckily headphones don't get jealous!
Fair enough mate
By the way, it might be worth noting that the positioning of the cups are a little picky on the Momentum's. I found that sliding them a little further down than what you think is normal will give a better seal. It is hard to explain, but when you press inwards on the lower part of the cups, you might notice quite a bit of difference in sound quality. By sliding the cups a little further South you can get an improvement in the SQ particularly the bass.
Bounce here as well. Would be good to know if you hear back from them.