Good, complete review. Enjoy!!

You did a great job on this article. Congrats.

Nice review mate. Well done.

Thank you for the review. Looking forward to the M-100s

Im so jealous right now. I really cant wait for these to arrive at my doorstep.

Good review, very informative. Just wanted to point out that in Part VI of the review in the sentence with "this is [SPARTA!!]" I think there's a typo with "do no" rather than "do [not]" xD Lol not trying to be a picky grammar nazi, but I just happened to notice it so...

Oh yeah you're right, thanks for the correction! Again, it was around 3 AM when I wrote that part so I was pretty tired. XD

Congrats a very good review.
I received mine the other day. I agree completely with your review, I do find it sibilant, and that the imaging/soundstage chokes itself when things get very dynamic in a song. I also noted that the headphone has a retardedly fast speed with which it hits the notes (to a bad point, it doesn't allow the note to roll off smoothly, making it harsh.) The midrange annoys me, and does not do rock. I love the bass, although it can be too much.
AND FINALLY you have to try it with a VAMP, holy mother of god, it irons out a few issues (smoothes it a bit, better imaging control, better midrange), and improves it a fair bit overall, much much better then my E7. Definitely designed together, was nowhere near as bothered by the flaws. But I do still think this is a great portable, even if it needs a VAMP to make me take it out my cupboard and put down my Denon D7000. I will eventually do a full writeup. and this is causing me to revisit my K550 review, although this will score lower then it when I finish re-evaluating.

I would like to try out the VAMP some day, or maybe even the iPhone 5 VAMP, but unfortunately I don't own an iPhone at the moment so that option is pretty much ruled out for me. As it is a V-MODA DAC/amp, I would expect it to have terrific synergy with the M-100.

is there a way to prevent the fraying on the cables?

It might depend on what kind of clothing you're wearing. At school, I wear a nylon/cotton jacket, and the collar always rubbed against the cable.
On the other hand, I've been using the SharePlay cable for about a month now and I have absolutely no problems with the cable fraying, sticking out of my jacket oddly, or retaining kinks/bends (mostly wearing the same jacket). The SpeakEasy cable was the one that frayed a lot (see the photo above).

yes, I have an audio-only cable for my m80's and it's perfect without any fraying, it's the iDevice cable (and 1-button cable, for that matter) that tend more to fray and be al funky... I'm guessing the stiffness has something to do with the extra wiring required for the mic,buttons

HI Miceblue, your plate/shield things look awesome. What did you search in google to get it? lol

I posted the story/design of my shield in this thread post:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/616990/v-moda-shield-design-discussion/195#post_8831829
Basically I Googled "rod of asclepius", greatly modified one of the image results, and added my own text/heart to it.

Best review, ever, I'm amazed. Thank you.

Which have bigger ear cups, the M-100 or the Sennheiser HD439?