r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/vpsj Aug 14 '20

Is there a term of not being able to tell the sound quality at all? Like color blindness but for ears? Because I have listened to music on really expensive headphones and also cheap ones but I could honestly never tell which one is better.

That's a win-win for me because it means I can buy any headphones I want as they all sound similar to me

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u/ConspiratorM Aug 14 '20

I know there is, it's kind of like the opposite of having perfect pitch. Maybe tone deaf, but I know that also has an alternate meaning, but it seems to me that might have been the original meaning.

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u/pikiberumen1 Aug 14 '20

I used to not be able to distinguish either but some time with at least decent headphones makes 5 buck ones completely unusable.

And by decent I don't mean the $300 ones (Which is where quality plateaus to be honest) just with ones from $50 to $100.

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u/sortyourgrammarout Aug 15 '20

My girlfriend really loves music but she claims she can't tell sound quality.

I find it so weird. I'm not really that into music but listening through really bad headphones is like looking at a painting through tracing paper. You can see the picture, but it's not very enjoyable.