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> You could buy a pair of Sony MDR-7506 that measure similarly (IIRC, a bit better, even) for $85. Or Superlux HD668B which can be found for $30 last time I checked.
Or if you're willing to spend more, Beyerdynamic DT-770/880/990 family stuff. Or if you want IEMs, you're not going to beat Hifiman RE-400 for any IEM under $300.
I once spent ~2 hours explaining all of this (well maybe not all of it) to a friend of mine who was studying sound design at the time. He didn't believe me. I even transcoded some 24/192 FLAC Pink Floyd I had lying around and made him do a double blind test to show him that he'd prefer the slightly louder song every time, even if the louder song was 192kbps vs the FLAC. He did. He still doesn't believe me. He still t…
The article is correct, but it's not true that nobody can't tell the difference between an MP3 and a FLAC. I've personally done blind A/B testing in my (then) studio to discover the point at which I can't distinguish between MP3 and uncompressed audio. These days the encoders are really good, so it gets real hard at around 256kbps. I'm confident I could reliably pick out 192kbps though.
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Broken window fallacy.
Sure, you need to take externalities into account. One can imagine an audiophile who would rather spend $100K on a sound system that sustains 3 jobs at a niche sound-system-design business, instead of angel-investing that money in a growth company that would eventually create 300 jobs. But what if the audiophile's daughter is then inspired to build another growth company when she grows up, because she was intrigued b…