The ier M7-M9 is closer to their release of EX800st and EX1000 than the xba line really. One tuned for musicality and more expensive, the other cheaper and more studio/monitoring use. They really haven't released any XBA Z5/N3 successor in their old price range, Z1R is just a an attempt at...

got a chance to spring for FW10000 and IEX1 before, i prefer Z1R than the JVC and the IEX1 have bad reviews everywhere so yeah. used they are all about the same price with the Z1R retaining their value best still. The Ocharaku is less than half the price of the A8000 so it's expected.

yeah, thats my first impression on my Final A8000 as well, its wide and open, while retaining the black background. EX1000 is about as wide but due to the poor isolation of it it is closer to an open IEM than ever. Indeed I agree MV1 have quite a closed off feeling as an open back. It suits...

so even traditional down cable design isn't good enough for you? shame you still can't settle with the Z5 even this long... i think its about time for me to offload my A3 as well, its been sitting inside the Z1R leather case for close to a year...

Man 6hours battery life is abyssmal, when the battery inevitably degrade what'll be the battery life be in 6-10 years? An hour? For 18k there's for sure long warranty that include the battery right? At Least audio Technica' multikilobuck wireless over ear include a warranty replacement of all of...

I don't understand... Why use proprietary, non removable cable when it's not even an electrostats? At least KSE1500 make sense for the dac/amp combo, but this? Edit: ah it seems the MEMS driver is the one that need it's own power supply, I guess that's what they change to while not changing the...

The EX1000 is different, I only wish it has more bass, I need to compare the two sometime. The old best DD driver iem and current one IMO. Ocharaku IMO might suit people better than ex1000 while being not as picky in genres.

Wait, I thought the theoretical limit for SDXC SD cards have been 2Tb? I mean that's what have been the upper limit of many electronic device SD card slot since 10 years ago. You'd need a new standard of SD card to go higher than 2tb. Edit: ah yeah 2 slots on the Dmp, 4TB indeed... Man you...

Ended up biting the bullet (have been thinking for over a month) and got an A8000. Agree that PF really isn't iem, I'm just mighty curious about how they sound, but thinking I already have an EX1000 which prob is close enough I decided to just end my search in iem realm for any foreseeable...

Sony is always 1st a tech company, they will adapt the next generation of products and commit to them completely when they deemed them good enough. Personally right now TWS both in wireless transmission and battery lifetime isn't good enough for anyone other than prob audio technica to put...

They did attend one or two CanJam to show off their signature series line up on 2016 and early 2017. Outside of WWDC it's one of the First public place people can try the new trio of DAC/Amp-DAP-Headphone in one place. I remember them bringibg their Japanese engineer and also their legacy...

Sony releases Halo audio products in like every other decades rather than doing iterative updates. They started the expensive headphone hobby with the 2.5k usd MDR R10 1989, then Qualia 010 on 2004, afterwards, Z1R on 2016. By this logic, the next Sony halo personal audio product will come out...

It's a great singular dac/amp, for people who doesn't need more power than necessary, and have a collection of stuff to listen to. I've been using it for years and had enjoyed quick swapping my many headphones on it, simply by picking one up and pressing the output on the remote and I'm in a...

Most of the good ones in this price range do usually are quite picky on what source drive them. Being a 1 desktop dac/amp and 1 DAP believer myself, it make the Clear a great portable fullsize to bring around on long trip.

Im very tolerant of bright headphones, heck some of my Fav since I start my hobby were Grado, I moved on from it to T1 then to ADX5000 so yeah I'm fine on that front, I'm more sensitive to sibilance that ie both Z1R sometimes gives out, the IER especially when you don't have deep seal with it...

I'm in a mood of a Final iem, and have 3 options right now, A8000, Piano Forte Viii, PF X-CC, which of the three sounds most unique? Anyone can offer a comparison to what I have in my sound signature?

on some region, esp Asia, Sennheiser HD490pro is actually like 2x the price of MV1, same with Neumann, its just up to the options available

Me using the Tazzy which were not really made for the Z1R exactly, as each division really didn't talk to each other, am know of Z1R sound quirkiness since i first demo it 7 years ago, but as a closed back headphone in itself, id have none other, it sound different, need some time to get used to...

I think Clear's biggest advantage is it's driveability.

If they specifically mentioned the ADX, I guess it will be an open back non limited models. Wonder what it'd be named tho, will they also be in ADX line?

Saw these on sale used right after I bought my Focal, I guess with all said and done I made the right decision considering my amp is a humble Sony TA-ZH1ES.

Audio Techinica likes to make limited runs, tho i cant remember any open back released as limited edition on top of my head. Will they make an over 2K USD open back that's consumer model? that'd be new for them.

Had one last night of pondering... now with direct A/B switching to my current collection. It really always ended up to 1 point, just how lovely I find Clear's tuning to be, it has none of the quirk of my other cans, great to perfect on all genre of music I've used it in, and so make it very...

While also quite differently tuned or similar?

Did it just suddenly happen or did something caused it? what I'm scared about is driver problems while just using it every other 2 days.