Vtory

We didn't even consider weight but glad that's a big plus for many :) performance-price is top priority

That’s doubtlessly a great direction!

I’m personally less sensitive to price as that’s a matter of how many months to save money. I know or own several other products I can equivalently enjoy.. but none of them comes under 400g.

I believe they call them "Super Copy" and they come in many levels of feature matching

If they're like other fashion products, there can be 'overruns' by subcontractors producing a bit more than ordered and whose only differentiation might be a cut label, 'seconds' that are rejects, prototypes, real internals in second-rate shells, second-rate internals in real shells etc.. It's not as simple as 100% real and 100% fake.

We have a truly excellent "ProductName" branded Chromebook.

it's an electrostatic end of summer.

Help us, @n3rdling. You're our only hope.

$6000. goddamn

Gotta keep up with Hifiman!

Gross. $6k headphones incoming from Audeze and Focal soon I imagine. Gotta dupe people into spending stupid amounts of money on a headphone.

https://stax-international.com/products/sr-x9000/

edit: hadn't seen @Vtory's post above

I dunno, that looks kinda like a render from some design student - and that marketing tag is a bit too clumsy to come out of Audeze. Remember, Audeze's got enough bux to pay BMW Designworks for the EL-8s. I haven't been keeping up on who they've been farming out their ID to lately, tho.

Looks like an Aliexpress knockoff

Its leaked from a design company called boombang. They obviously had a page ready to go hot, and someone put it out too early. The page is now password protected but if you google images search "audeze lcd5 boombang" two of the photos still pop up. Someone posted an LCD-5 thread with the photos on HF and it got deleted QUICK. I think Audeze reaaaaally didn't want these images out there.

I find that people may have different preferences but generally hear the same things. Kind of an interesting phenomenon.

Wise.

I find most people into IEM's and TOTL BA IEM's, tend to go for nuance and find bass distracting. iJoker and Crinicle's leanings don't surprise me, just understand their preferences.

God told me the A2 is the best Yggdrasil so I don't need to worry anymore. Thank you Jesus.

Reading all the LIM, MIL info and already owning an OG, makes me want to check out a Soekris instead of a new Schiit card.

I'm hopefully looking forward to a Soekris x Schiit Yggdrasil.

Considering concurrent audio trends, I bet it's likely something extraordinarily expensive. Maybe HE1 expensive one..

ZOMG only 4 days left!!

They hired iFI’s marketing team haha

@Cellist88
Fair point. Fully agreed. It can eventually be just what it is.. unless apple eliminates their laptop business some day.

I try to justify the purchase but itll just be a glorified score reader.

Yeah, luxury scratch pad, luxury zoom cam, luxury youtube/netflix console, luxury genshin device, and some luxury toy duties, too. Justification on my end was even easier when looking at uber iem prices and pandemic rtx prices. Not much joking lol.

The Supecomboburrito filter

Allow me to write a treatise on this...

Also the phase inversion button

My old belief "good measurements = shit sounding" fully destroyed by Soekris and Holo/KTE. Now I don't feel full measurement-fi as bad as I thought before -- as long as I pre-prune unsafe choices (Chifi, DS, and all such things).

It really helps in Teams meeting. You can draw and explain. Good investement.

Im jealous, I still haven't gotten to see the new mini LED screens

Did you go with the magic keyboard? I really like it, trackpad is well implemented and keyboard is solid. Plus always charging with out needing to plug/unplug. Black is amazing on that screen.

Couldn't tell, did you do J2 vs Freya S comparison or is it speculation? Also, what rest of the system?

Side by side comparison. I’m using 2541, aegirs, and spatial m3 turbo-s speakers.

No offense but, I think there's a hint in there about the Freya S for you.

Yeah, maybe most of us think the same way. Waiting for the loaner tour RD would coordinate a few months later. Moreover, most >4k release price products depreciated down to 2k-ish used eventually. So, crbn would follow the same path I believe.

I'm not positive they'll do a CRBN loaner, but I'm hopeful. I'd love to hear one but have no stax amps.

If they will do a loaner, count me in!

Thx. Good points. I don't quite get the array part as they copied and pasted from the previous marketing. But they did seem to use new film for the diaphragm which reduced weights from 0.16g to 0.11g for the same surface area.

Looks amazing in that silver color, IMO. Maybe the sound is "Beats by Meze" but at least it looks great.

It's a gorgeous headphone and screams TOTL materials. The issue is that the headphone itself doesn't sound TOTL when I last put ears on them. Add in a 1K increase and there are just so many other headphones that I feel are much better.

@rhythmdevils Tried this. Kinda smaller than ideal but it worked for me by enlarging surface area. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B093P8YHNV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I’ve looked at that before but it doesn’t look like it has any cushioning so I never tried it. Just ordered one though! Thanks

You weren't that wrong in that it had only thin memory-foam-ish padding. But quite flexible enough to put extra cushioning stuff. Final result was much more satisfying than HFM HE400SE (which I think cheaper/downgraded ver of 6SEv2's padding)

Feeling funny that I thought journals like jama, pnas, nature very distant a couple of years ago when I researched (virtually) alone. Now with an amazing team in the current place, those are where I am getting pubs. What a change.

Congrats! Keep it up and your reward will be lots more ms review and grant-application-writing requests ;)

If they have to skimp on driver magnets for a $4k build their priorities are fucked.

I'm totally fine if they only intend to serve for 'Harmonians' and/or Aeon lovers. Their decision. Fair enough. (but.. are those people really willing to pay for that amount of money?)

Stealth indeed is heavier and more inefficient than previous ones. So good chance that they went for better magnet. But doubt if it's 4k-good. Single-sided structure.. well -- I may have a strong prejudice/bias lol.

What a fucking disaster.