spycaper51
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Here's a little story: A few years ago I owned a Dell Dimension 4600, with Windows XP 32-bit, which came along with a pair of Panasonic RP-HT360 headphones. These headphones had astounding audio quality and very comfortable earmuffs, that plus they lasted a very long time. A while passed before the RP-HT360 broke and I had to get some new headphones, I chose a pair of Sentry HMM10 to replace the RP-HT360s. The sentry headphones were cheap, small, but had a noticeable decrease in sound quality when compared to the Panasonic headphones. As a note, I bought the Sentry headphones while I still had the Dimension 4600 / Windows XP 32-bit.
Now, a year later I purchased an entirely new computer, an HP e9120y desktop with Windows Vista 64-bit. Along with purchasing the computer I also decided to buy a new set of headphones, I bought 3 different pairs, all from different companies, but I had to return them all because their sound qualities were actually worse than the $5 pair of Sentry headphones. Obviously I was very surprised at this, seeing as a pair of not 1 but 3 different headphones which cost an upward of $50 each had worse sound quality than a cheap $5 set. Then I finally decided to re-buy a new set of RP-HT360 headphones, the only headphones that I absolutely knew for sure had better sound quality than the sentry ones.
But here's the problem, when I purchased the new set of RP-HT360 headphones, they also had worse sound quality than the Sentry headphones. I was dumbfounded. The last time I owned these exact models of headphones, I knew for sure they had better sound quality than the sentry headphones, not the other way around!
I'm starting to suspect that this mystery has something to do with my computer, or operating system, seeing as the Panasonic headphones only had better sound quality than the Sentry when they were used on a 32-bit Windows XP operating system.
Help?
Now, a year later I purchased an entirely new computer, an HP e9120y desktop with Windows Vista 64-bit. Along with purchasing the computer I also decided to buy a new set of headphones, I bought 3 different pairs, all from different companies, but I had to return them all because their sound qualities were actually worse than the $5 pair of Sentry headphones. Obviously I was very surprised at this, seeing as a pair of not 1 but 3 different headphones which cost an upward of $50 each had worse sound quality than a cheap $5 set. Then I finally decided to re-buy a new set of RP-HT360 headphones, the only headphones that I absolutely knew for sure had better sound quality than the sentry ones.
But here's the problem, when I purchased the new set of RP-HT360 headphones, they also had worse sound quality than the Sentry headphones. I was dumbfounded. The last time I owned these exact models of headphones, I knew for sure they had better sound quality than the sentry headphones, not the other way around!
I'm starting to suspect that this mystery has something to do with my computer, or operating system, seeing as the Panasonic headphones only had better sound quality than the Sentry when they were used on a 32-bit Windows XP operating system.
Help?