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Some things just can't be unseen. His 100% rating won't last long... (and $200 for b-stock Orion CK from ALO Audio)

Waiter, can I get that with a side order of ear cheese?

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Actually like L the most. (I used to swap Sony hybrid tips on HF!)

Totally. The tonal signature isn't exactly the same (the JVC's have better bass extension), but for me the JVCs are to iems what the HD600s are to overear headphones. Comparable price, comparable performance, comparable enjoyment

Every time I listen to the FDX1 after a period of listening to other transducers, it feels like coming home.

Does work great on a Mangi 3+, and a DNA Starlett.

Okay Hamlet the Audiophile :P

Ordered yesterday, shipping notice received today, pleasantly surprised.

I know! The same here. I'm stoked.

Tropical motif... I get it.

@Claritas yeah, but you get to hear so much stuff you've never heard with a good quality subscription. I'm not in a place to buy this many cds. I am starting to go back to the same album so many times I'm thinking about buying a few.

God bless youtube! It helps me figure out what to take seriously and what to avoid.

Not what you're asking for but when I switch subscriptions, I use soundiiz to regenerate my library. I wouldn't descibe it as doing a good job but it's significantly better than nothing.

I cancelled the first time, but those are so generally praised by those more knowledgeable than I, I have give them a go.

Sure hope the laoner gets here today so I can decide if they are worth it.

Awesome been waiting for the restock

...but Rostropovich also sounds different on either headphone. I owned a HD600 first so it seems... "truer" to me, but I think that is only priority of ownership. It didn't seem crazy to think there was a violinist or cellist (or for that matter, any musician) here who could say why they prefer their instrument on one headphone over another (or any, for that matter), but then again, I'm not a musician!

As a woodwind musician, listening is a much different experience than playing. Still throws me off after 20 years, even when I'm at a live performance. The player's sinus cavity is part of the instrument, turns out.

Honestly don't know if me being a cello player gives me better insight. The way I play the cello sounds totally different from from the pros I've heard and it's even different from whoever claimed first chair in my orchestra. The way you hold it and bow all has an effect. Only way I could compare is if I heard Rostropovich live and through the HD 600

Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, The Velvet Underground.

Oh and The Clash. Always The Clash.

Bach, going on over 20 years. I don't think John Sebastian has dropped below 50% of my listening in the past dozen years.

I enjoy Glendale, and listening to the coyotes howl at the sirens.

Airplanes overhead, small trucks, cars, speeding bikes, tricycles, neighbours with karaoke machines or just drunk talking, not to mention my dad's 30+ birds in an aviary just outside my window :(

In the place I'm at now, there's actual silence. There's major parts of the day where I hear no vehicles.

Award season! When do nominations start?

I nominate the streaming platforms that nowadays have more content for a start. Tool is streaming. Tool even knocked Taylor Swift from her top position on the charts for a while, that is funny...

I mostly listen to classical though; I know others are less happy with its catalog.

...and could be a cool input on Gun/Yggdrasil LPCM->2.0

AV Receivers (Mandatory) require multichannel PCM (LPCM) output, regardless of ATMOS/DTSMA/TRUEHD. So question is, is WIN10/MacOS LPCM just sitting there for simple output thru USB (then TrueMB does the magic)? Hmmmm.

If hell freezes over it needs a new DAC...