Phone cameras still aren't as good as SLRs, and never will be due to sensor size and optics.
Apple could have made these as good as $500 Sennheiser/Grado/Sony cans. But they didn't.
Rants about "traveling with an orchestra" don't even make sense when one listens to music produced exclusively in-the-box. And even if I am listening to recorded material what is wrong with nuance and detail... after all that is what the mixing and mastering engineers heard when they made it. Do you think they choose their microphones and recording hardware willy-nilly?
Software is a terrible substitute for hardware! Hardware is easier to understand, latency-free, and produces a more harmonically interesting result
Yeah man, you live in a different world from 95% of consumers. For typical users the iPhone camera will destroy what they could do with an SLR.
You remind me of a buddy of mine that has hearing loss from the marines. He is a giant headphone nut, and owns numerous $500+ pairs of headphones. All sorts of head phone amplifiers and dacs. But his hearing loss prevents any of that from really even mattering.
Does it? Or are you just saying that? You can't experience hearing through his ears, so how can you possibly say that?
Hearing loss is a weird beast that takes many forms. If he truly cannot tell the difference between Beats and his setup in a blind hearing test then maybe I would agree. Do you know if he's done this?
Apple could have made these as good as $500 Sennheiser/Grado/Sony cans. But they didn't.
Rants about "traveling with an orchestra" don't even make sense when one listens to music produced exclusively in-the-box. And even if I am listening to recorded material what is wrong with nuance and detail... after all that is what the mixing and mastering engineers heard when they made it. Do you think they choose their microphones and recording hardware willy-nilly?
Software is a terrible substitute for hardware! Hardware is easier to understand, latency-free, and produces a more harmonically interesting result