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I have the e838, too and they sound much less good than the MDR e848. I don´t care about shure and weestone, In 1995 the things were different. There wherer no SSDs, no Core I5 with 22 cores, no Creatife Audigy soundcards and no Sony Smartphones. You are talking about a time where only walkmans wherer affortable for normal people and the computers had a hdd of 10 gb at most. Come on man, even professional gear probably did not sound as good as Creative Labs Audigy FX DAC back at that time, so times where different ,a lot of different at that time and sony wherere very good at that time. Also the E838 are the less top model of earphones from Sony, they sell on ebay used much cheaper than the MDR e848 earphones. IN 1995 a good soundsystem was something like this and not Canton GLe 90 or Canton Townos and I listened only to radio. as I was 7. your high-end TV was something like this , and the most expensive car looked just like this and did not have a screen or CD, not to talk about mp3 or USB.and there and the fastest prozessor was a Pentium 1 with 100 MHz. Tehre was ntohing good in technology in 1995. I don´t even believe you that the MDR e848 are from 1995. My father drives this car and ithas a mcuh less good souind than the MDR E848 overa low end smartphone las my Sony Xperia V10 is.

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The MDR‑E848 definitely wasn’t the second most expensive in‑ear option in 1995. Professional in‑ear monitors already existed and cost hundreds of dollars. In 1995, the first custom dual‑driver IEMs were made. These custom monitors sold for around US $700–900 per set, far beyond any consumer earbud pricing. Westone and Shure were also producing early stage monitors like the Shure E1 and E5, similarly priced in the high hundreds of dollars. So, there were already models costing 20× more than the E848. Even within Sony’s own consumer lineup, the MDR‑E848 wasn’t the most expensive. The MDR‑E888 was Sony’s flagship consumer earbud at the time, retailing around ¥5,000–6,000 (about US $50). Other models like the MDR‑E868 and MDR‑E838 also sat above the E848 in price, in the ¥4,000–5,000 range. The MDR‑E848 cost about ¥3,300 (~US $30)—upper mid‑tier but not top of the line, even for Sony. So the E848 was neither the second most expensive earbud, nor close to the highest-priced in-ear option in 1995. At best it was a mid‑high consumer model, well below both Sony’s own E888 and the genuinely expensive IEMs.

Yes, but you have to consider that t he MDR e848 where not the cheapest earphones at that time, but the second most expensive, only the MDR e8888 where more expensive, so they are higher mid-range class. Please think that your sony earphones are more monitor than hi-fi so they are probably much better sound, because if you had only hi-fi stuff like Canton, you would see that your Sony would be at the same level. Also, they came in your package with your minidisic player , which was very expensive at that time. Also, please consider ,that your Sony MDR e848 have a very deep Bass, which probably goes to 32 hz or 24 hz, which for me is very deep. IF I put the earhpones really hard into my ears (not pressing, but putting really well into my ears), I get a harder Bass than over my Canton speakers (altough I use EQ on Mediamonkey) and only the sound enhancer on my Sony smartphone, which is just a little bit like EQ.

I first got this album on cassette 😂 at an Eat Static gig in the 90s Oh man was it amazing back then, and oh my is it still absolutely brilliant. Still listen to this and it still sounds absolutely brilliant. Does it sound dated? Hell yeah, dated to an era of great music.

Sony have always made amazing budget gear. Before I got in to higher end stuff I think I used the free earphones I got with a Sony phone for ages Sony is one of those companies that make great stuff at every price point.

And by the way, theehse earphones look superb and very expensive for me.

Skinny, yes, but goa remembers me only of bright skinned girls and I like only bright girls, by the way, nothing against dark girls or men. And also I don´t like the jungle at all, I only like europe, especially Ausria and Bulgaria, but also Slovenia and Germany at the Alps.

Try the Sony DAPs, bulky things but they have decent power to drive fairly demanding headphones without the need for an external amp so is still good for on the go music.

I'll agree on the skinny girls one. So many girls dancing a lot and taking a load of pills often lead to skinniness Especially trippy flouro girls Rather than mountains though, Goa reminds me of beach parties And parties in the jungle I guess we all feel nostalgic from where we first experienced the music. Curious to hear what other people remember when they hear Goa

There's a guy on Band camp called Framework that remixes and releases tonnes of old trance (not psy) stuff. It's really good, his latest is basically modernized Northern Exposure (Sasha & John Digweed) which I was just listening to before I realized he'd released this 😊 He puts his stuff up, then it's only up for a short time so I am suspect about the legality of his mixes, but they're oh so good and super nostalgic.

Well, because they are enough for me. if they are better sounding as my Canton, which get Awards one after another https://www.fairaudio.de/test/canton-gle-90-standlautsprecher/ , and better sounding as my Panasonic , which get also only 5 stars reviews, and as you can hear , sounds very good, too, than they are fine and alright to me. The problem sits somewhere else for me, and it is the DAC of my Sony smarphone, which is very good, but not as good as my Creative labs FX soundcard. When I have the money however, I will buy the Sony Xperia 1 VI smartphone, which probably has a much better DAC.

Speaking of too much real world....just got home from work, it's 1am and need to be up at 7 to go back to work 😩

As people get older they are more invested in the real world and have less time to spend online, so you end up chatting with younger people you see as more brain-dead 😂 if us old folks could come back and talk about proper old people topics like 30 year old music, it'd be great 😸

Not trying to start a fight, I am just curious about how well you regard the MDR- e848s A decent budget earphones from 30 years ago. Taste is subjective so I am really interested in why anyone would prefer these over higher end stuff.

Well, you don´t have to complain and fight here at all. I have great sound experience with having 2 stereos, one very expensive and one mid-class Panasonic stereo https://geizhals.de/panasonic-sc-pmx802-v70976.html in Bulgaria with great soundcards. I also have heart many speakers and I have not choosen the Canton speakers just because I wanted to spend a lot of money, but because Iheart many, many speakers, some more expensive, with less good quality like B&W. Also, you have not commented on the video. If you would watch it, you would see that theCanton have an extremly good quality. Well, and the Sony are a little bit better than them, very high quality earphonest. So you do not have to star a fight with me. https://uploadnow.io/files/pYBCGMk Here is another video and if you can´t hear the crystal clarity at a volume that makes the windows vibrate, I don´t know.

I'm afraid that doesn't sound like a great advert for the Canton Speakers. I will definitely not be looking further in to that company if they can't outdo a 30 year pair of cheap earphones. Try the Sony IER-Z1Rs if you really want to hear good bass and detail. Or the MDR-Z1Rs if you prefer headphones. On hearing these you will never be able to go back to something like the MDR- e848s THen again, it's probably better advice NOT to try these. Honestly if you are happy with what you've got, there is no point paying tonnes of money for something else. But at the same time, don't go on forums claiming they are the best thing ever and not expect to get roasted 🔥

MIRANDA - WEIGHLESS KILARGH BOM SHANKAR

And, also, abasio. you should never be against t e Sony MDR e848 earphones. Only the cheap Sony like the Sony MDR e828 and E829 do not sound very good, but the MDR e848, which were not very cheap at the time they were nw sound very good. They have a lot of detail and a very good Bass, which can be very deep, if the track has a very deep Bass. TI ebabled the DSEE Sound Enhancer on my phone and the Basss is very deep and hard, better than on my Canton GLe 90 speakers, which cost 1200 € the pair.

https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8991/ge6c75gl_jpg.htm skinny girls https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8991/9vtnmujv_jpg.htm steep mountains https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8991/2msxjiv3_jpg.htm https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8991/ajlqwzvo_jpg.htm https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8991/pnx63iw9_jpg.htm https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8991/tr2z5erq_jpg.htm red skies Goa Trance is very emotional and energetic for me, so it reminds me of skinny girls, steep mountains and forest mountains and red skies. This especially goes for Miranda - Phenomena and Weighless, but also for Electric Universe - Sunset Skyline, Astral Projection - Electronic or Pleiadians - Starbase 11 and Pleiadians - Time dilation. Goa tRance is emotional and agressive to me and that is why it reminds me of those things. Miranda called the track weighless just because of skinny people and not because of alien starships or radio telescopes. Also a lot of goa trance tracks are not called with no reason Sunset Skyline, Ten mintues to sunset or Nexus. The artists think of red and yellow skies when producing goa trance with such names.

MIRANDA - PHENOMENA! KILARGH BOM SHANKAR !!! Someone should do a remake of it.

Well, for 320 € it should be a bit louder. It should not limitate at 55 percent, but go up to 80 percent without clipping, when the soundcard is at a volume of 50 percent.

MIRANDA - WEITGHTLESS!!!

AGAIN MIRANDA - PHENOMEN! MIRANDA! WHY HAVE YOU MADE THE FIRST ROW OF THE SECOND MELODY SO SHORT. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH LONGER.