The same company, on the other hand, sponsored another yt reviewer. He said the same hp in question was *the best* he ever heard. The company *publicly* praised how wonderful job he made, even shooting a dedicated video saying so. No way.. no way.
May be they should list down hardware requirement in the website so that someone with “ obsolete” gear doesn’t buy their headphone by mistake.
Could you link the video please
Sure, this is the yt review the company (prol) hated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ebdUUYt4g
(I think he expressed well. He's not "anti", and experienced some of other hps in the same company)
I get the general sentiment of the Abyss rep, but in this case he went about it all wrong. 1. If Abyss was so particular about mismatch with their gear, they should mention some of that on their site before asking for money and bitching after the fact.
2. Bad gear\review methodology aside, the reviewer was pretty tempered with his comments and made it pretty clear that it's a matter of subjective preference. The rep on the other hand pretty much ridiculed the reviewer and personally attacked his character unprovoked. IMO, he should have checked his tone, his ass should have been chewed out.
Abyss is a helicopter parent, they won't let their child be put in any position where someone could disparage them. In other words, they're attempting to unfairly advantage themselves by making sure on average, more expensive chains are used to review their equipment.
Abyss has a shitty reputation not shocked. The YT review community is horrible and this is a big part of why, if you dont blow smoke up the ass of every headphone you get manufactures wont give you any more review units or pull this kind of shit on you.
My take: The morale of the whole story is (1) Abyss (at least Joe) is afraid of customer's negative feedback and (2) it's probably because they are NOT confident with the product they make. This is my personal interpretation regarding over-reaction in any area in general.
He did liken it to the HD700 though which is the headphone lingo version of saying F*** your mother. Guess that rep couldnt let that horrific insult stand. Even that was soft though, should have said it was the Delta Air Complimentary Earphones of high end audio.
So obviously, Abyss should invade this guy's house with thermonuclear weapons, right? Totally justified, right?
But seriously... Many, if not most Real Audiophiles are using tube amplifiers. And this guy dares talk about "obsolete?" I suppose he'd trash somebody's much loved superb system for being... old.
I have no bone in this dog (or ball in the carpark): not interested in Abyss, not interested in spending that much anyway (HD800 was alrady way over "reasonable!") But this story just triggered me!
WTF... So what's changed in hifi over the decades? Not much. Mainly that, about 60 years ago, the cheaper stuff got better and better.
If any headphone doesn't sound decent from an amplifier that meets minimum power requirements, it's not a good headphone. If it's true that the transducer itself is the most important part of the chain for sound by several orders of magnitude, synergy shouldn't be a dealbreaker even if it is important. There I said it.
Agreed. I am indeed under the impression some companies often abuse "synergy" and "break-in". Suboptimal pairing may not be ideal outcome. I can fully get it. But if such combo sound too bad, that implies critical design flaws imho (usually something wrong in fr).
From what I gather synergy isn't what Abyss is concerned with, it's preventing their hp's from being discussed or heard on anything other than TOTL gear.
They’re just concerned about negative reviews and they’re such snobs about their headphones that if anyone dislikes them they blame the upstream gear publicly. It’s pathetic.
It's a great shame because the Diana TC are actually excellent headphones that are tuned quite tastefully as well. I actually prefer them over the similarly priced LCD-5, in terms of both sound and construction. The company rep could be a little more gentle in their approach.
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