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I think you are worse than many German forum members I met. Even they would not ignore the written stuff by other members. I said The Sony MDRE848 are the second most expensive Sony earbuds, just because there are no Sony MDR E868 earbuds and if you look at ebay, like I did for yerars, you would very well know that therer were no Sony MDR e-868 earbuds. You just don´t watch the video of the Canton, because you are affraid the sound very good and probably better than your headphones or earphones, (meaning also that the MDR e848 sound better than your acustics gear, also). It seems forum users have not changed since the past. Other forum users earlier knew about great technology, but some still don´t seen to know about great technology like tIntel core I5 13th gen, SSD 1 TB, DDR5 memory, AMD high end graphics cards, CReative Labs Audigy FX soundcards, Canto GLE 90 and many more.

Thanks for proving, once again, that you’re not really engaging with facts or reality. I’ll leave you to your car pictures and personal theories. I came back after many years away hoping there might still be some meaningful discussion here, but if this is what passes for it now, I’ll bow out of this thread. If anyone else still around wants to talk music, gear, or just share memories of the old psytrance days, I’m always happy to chat elsewhere on the forum.

In my opinion this is much better:

Right now: Doof - Mars Needs Women By far the best track of this name

I don´t deny the existence of the e888. I only said therer were no e868, so logically the Sony MDR e848 where the second best Earbuds back at that time or much later, since I don´t believe that at that time anything like the MDR E848 and the MDR E888 where released, but much mroe at this time: https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8992/r9tu8rxn_jpg.htm

So let me get this straight: – You deny the existence of the MDR‑E868 even though it was literally in Sony’s catalog. – You think Pentium 1 processors and wood TVs somehow prove the E848 was the “second most expensive.” – And now I’m supposed to judge 1995 earbuds based on a smartphone recording of your Canton speakers and your dad’s 2006 car stereo? 🤨 Right… Anyway, facts don’t change: • The MDR‑E888 was more expensive than the E848. • Ultimate Ears & Westone pro IEMs did exist in 1995 and cost $700–900. • And yes, the MDR‑E868 also existed—catalog scans are out there if you care. If you’re more interested in uploading random car audio videos than actually looking at historical facts, that’s on you. I’ll stick with documented prices, not nostalgia and smartphone mic recordings. 😉

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Ther e was no Sony MDr e868, so the Sony MDR e848 was the second most expensive erphones of that time and probably not of that time, since that time there where only Pentium 1 prozessors and crappy wood TVs. You have not watched the Video I uploaded, this one https://uploadnow.io/files/pYBCGMk , to form an opinion about my Canton speakers. I will record mroe videos of my Panasonic stereo, which is of THIS time and of my father´s car, which is from 2006, allready very old and 19 yeras old, but it is an S-class with Harman Cardon audio system, so it is very good. In the end you will hear that from vy very good microphone of my Sony Xperia V 10 smartphone, that they are the best acustic gear I have.

30 years later and this is still one of my top albums. Absolutely love it from start to finish and I still listen to it all the time.

So… Pentium processors, old TVs, your dad’s car, and Creative Audigy cards somehow prove the MDR‑E848 was the second‑most expensive in‑ear of 1995? 🤔 Interesting logic. Look, I’m not arguing whether you like the sound—that’s subjective. If the E848 is the best you’ve heard, great. But liking them doesn’t rewrite history: • Sony MDR‑E888 was actually the top consumer earbud back then, more expensive than the E848. • Ultimate Ears and Westone were already selling pro in‑ear monitors for $700–900 in 1995—literally 20× the price of the E848. • And if we go beyond earbuds, Sennheiser’s HE60/HE90 electrostatics were in the thousands. So no, the E848 wasn’t anywhere near the top—nice mid‑high consumer buds, sure, but not the “second most expensive in‑ear option of the era.”

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.

Eat Static - Almost Human 💕

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 😸