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blargh4 t1_iu2va0e wrote

Well, there's only so much you can do with a passive speaker driver in a plastic cup. I suspect audiophiles will resist it and it'll probably be beyond the R&D budgets of most audiophile brands, but I think the next frontier is headphones with various integrated electronics and DSP to do things you can't purely in the 2-wires-into-1-driver realm. There's some headphones now with microphones that point towards your ear to dynamically EQ the sound, seems like an interesting idea; ditto deriving a personalized HRTF from a 3d scan of one's ears.

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Yammy_Lyfe OP t1_iu2ykuu wrote

I suspect you are right.

I really have no listening issues with it, if it offers an experience I like, but I strongly fear software dependencies and vendor lock-in, subscription add-ons etc.

That would be a ripe field to sneak software into being that the output is intangible and very abstract, they just need to claim we are paying for software to improve the sound stage, 3D effect or whatever this month.

Much easier to sell than physically disengaging a moto that drives the car sunroof we paid for and tangibly experience being disabled.

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