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This vintage pair, albeit modded and dsp-calibrated (both heavily), is technically so capable that I can easily forget its age. Whew!

like for me is an honest and serious thumbs up. Epic for me has a bit more frivolity to it, sort of Aristotle vs. Bill & Ted...

Like for everyday posts. If you can tell it someone spent some time doing and writing and it would be superworthwhile to save and preserve, then Epic.

Yup, for me Epic is content worth preserving, like is any positive emotion for any or no good reason.

Almost perfectly paired with rainy Sunday afternoon.

these were my first orthos!! kinda interested to see how they've aged. hit me up if you ever want to get rid of them!

Oh I can't either sell or tell the age. Because it's not mine but @rhythmdevils 's one (he kindly loaned me) lol. Maybe he can chime in regarding the age?

Subjectively with this filter setting, VO sounded less like Verite, more like Clear Be... lol

World deadliest rollercoaster.

It can be very informative. Repeat several times (different days/occasions) and see where the consistency lies.

Synergy and brain training make a world of difference. I think it is a combo meal of what our systems bring to the table combined with what we want to hear.

For the past few months, many solid contenders (Hive, HE6, SR1a, etc) challenged to dethrone Vo, but none of them didn't screw my Verite belief this much..

I’m on the other side of the fence. I think the Mg technical resolves very well but still too dark for me. The Verite still has nice sparkle even with the Universe pads.

I must be a dark/laid-back head. Even with well-recorded tracks, every item in my checklist easily ticked on the (so-called) muted range. Verite slightly better though.

Junky recordings freak me out. Everything sounds with perfected clarity and gradation. I hear what I'm not supposed to hear. Particularly in vocals. Maybe fakes. But I don't think I resolve this much even with utopia.

Pretty nice discount, 0.02% off

Must be the dollar off discount. What a bargain...

FINALLY! Something worthy of my U-Turn table. My hipster friends in Williamsburg will be jealous of me.

While Audeze do a little better than before, I don't quite get their version/revision managements. They should assign different SKU and name for different-sounding unit.. https://i.imgur.com/YT0Hgre.png

Still just $150 on Hifiman site, you just don't get the free IEMs now.

What does "AF" stand for?

April Fools

They're not any better per se. But meaningfully different (actually in the way I kinda prefer). Very playback-dependent, too.

Boil water; put in glass or mug; add amount of quality honey to your liking; take spoon; stir the water with your spoon; taste.

Then look at the sugar water again and tell me you still want that black sludge...

Not a soda fan, but the general opinion I've read is Pepsi has more "wow" factor-on purpose as better in taste tests, but most people prefer Coke in the long run. YMMV of course.

I don't like either. I get a craving for 7-up when I have the flu --- but otherwise, no fizzy drinks.

Also, CMG enables to hear double tracking (quite frequent in recordings I mentioned above) analytically AND entertainingly. Not many headphones can do both simultaneously -- even in such a low dynamic range context. What a trick.

I find the same as I upgraded my system as well. Random Sony portable CD player > random Sony earphones: Jpop all day long; Entry level headphone system: Jpop turns poop; Mid-fi system: Jpop is listenable and actually quite good again.

I find that lyrical clarity is a good method of evaluation. I could actually distinguish Nirvana lyrics on some systems

For my credit, I did never recommend hfm. And spent enough bytes to warn about typical HFM weaknesses. I just commented "could be interesting"...

Hopefully you won't have to test out new GFs

With all the undeleted scenes and presentation back, the story now made perfect sense providing watchers with a series of well-defined philosophical discourse. Logical jumps or ambiguous narratives were made by (possibly) funders, not by the director Snider.

Nolan's Batman/Bruce could be still more easily understandable, but Snider's take is far more profound to me.

Warner Bros really mucked up w/ theatrical cuts (both Batman v Sup and Justice League). Synder cut still has issues but far better than whatever garbage the studio put out

Interesting to see somethings in common: (1) beyond certain technical capability, (2) forgiving highs, (3) sin-committing spatiality, (4) crazy scaling with better upstream, and (5) most importantly presentation to die for.

I think I have especially high (biased) expectation on #2, #3, and #5.

The awesome aha moment of this hobby is seeing new audio components metamorphose crap recording to unpredicted goosebumps.

My primary gear evaluation rubric distinguishing S tier from A or below.

2,3,5 is what I too look for and VO gives me that even with cheaper amps like ZDT Jr