I replaced the pads on my AKG Q701 headphones today for the 4th time. It made me realize that I’ve used these headphones for at least 40 hours a week for 14 years straight. I’ve had to repair the left side speaker solder joint a few times, but they’re designed to be easily torn down and repaired. Truly BIFL headphones.
I’ve heard that the newer AKG K702 headphones are identical but I can’t vouch for that. They go for around $250.
Plot twist: they listen exclusively to Russian shortwave numbers stations.
Close. I originally got them exclusively for ASMR listening, when ASMR was a brand new concept.
Did you also burn your tongue because you ate pizza before it was cool?
Huh?
It’s a joke about you being a hipster since you hopped on ASMR “before it was cool”.
The full joke goes “Why did the Hipster burn his tongue? He ate his pizza before it was cool.”
Oh. :( That wasn’t very friendly.
I was just goofin’, friend :)
Aw ok, much love ❤️
Feel good about whatever you want :) I just always thought it was odd to kinda boast about when you find a certain type of art or whatever, but only after someone pointed it out. I’ve been guilty of the same thing many times, was just poking fun, not trying to be harmful, just playful I suppose
Fwiw, as a fellow long time listener to ASMR and fan of good headphones, I think you’re cool!
I recalled that joke from a teenage memory long ago. You’re 100% right
That was a lot longer before 10 years ago.
The term ASMR was coined in 2010. I think it didn’t really catch on until 2011.
I would have sworn you were wrong, but I guess I assumed that it was around long before I learned the “correct” term for it. Turns out I just learned it at the same time everybody else did, basically.
I see. I was thinking of binaural audio. My mistake.
The first time I saw the term online was in 2006/2007, long before people started making videos to try to trigger it.
That’s impossible, the term didn’t exist until 2010 when Jennifer Allen created it because she wanted a “scientific sounding” term to describe the sensation.
I remember where I lived and what computer I owned when I first read about it. I definitely didn’t live there in 2010. I don’t know who Jennifer Allen is, but is it possible she read the same web page I did and borrowed the term?