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post #181 of 254
4/11/12 at 4:17pm
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Added dB Logic and Wan Xuan

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post #182 of 254
5/3/12 at 8:11pm
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Sorry for the delay, everyone. I've been extremely busy at work for a few months. I'll be getting back to the list next week if all goes well.

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post #183 of 254
5/11/12 at 7:55pm
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Exactly one month after the last update, I finally found time to post another. This time there were six brands to add. Four of them (Alpex, AudioComm, Axes, and Brightonnet) were relatively uninteresting, cheap Japanese products with little sonic merit. I did find two brands, however, that piqued my interest. Here, in brief, is what I found:

 

Vetted, an online company that specializes in chic, fashionable versions of everyday things (hairbrushes and pens are prominent) and also does much of their business selling modern art-culture magazines, offers a modern headphone based on the visual design of the classic Ashidavox through the Japanese firm of IDEA, which owns rights to the design. They've been offered before on such retailers as Amazon, but now the deal seems to be exclusively through Vetted, where they're quoted at $140. If the SQ is any good (and I personally expect it probably won't be near $140 good, judging by the other ripoffs sold at Vetted), it could be a cool little throwback portable.

 

The company that really gained my interest, however, was Audio Interu. With a typically unorganized site dated from 2002 at the latest and bad Japanese translations provided by Google, I exasperatedly navigated to their two personal audio products, an earphone based on the Sony MDR-E931LP (now discontinued) and their only full-size headphone, the UST Headphone EXH-313. It looked like a typical plasticky full-sizer trying to pass itself off as concert-class (I'm looking at you, Auvio), but when I converted the price to USD I was very surprised. This was a $700 headphone. I dug deep to find reviews, and eventually came up with one on yet another badly-translated page. It seemed to be praising the EXH-313, and yet another page corroborated this with what I believed were comparisons to the ATH-W1000X, which the Japanese headphone resembles. I wonder if anyone on Head-Fi has ever tried this set out, as it seems very interesting...

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post #184 of 254
5/11/12 at 8:05pm
Did a bit of digging, and what I can find is - "UST" is some sort of technology from Intel, implemented in a few headphones. Including those Sonys, a modified ATH-A900, and the 313 (which I can't figure if it's the same as the A900UST or not, they seem to appear together in documents though).

Take a whack at it:
http://mamiso.blog.shinobi.jp/CM/9/89/
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post #185 of 254
5/12/12 at 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by obobskivich View Post

Did a bit of digging, and what I can find is - "UST" is some sort of technology from Intel, implemented in a few headphones. Including those Sonys, a modified ATH-A900, and the 313 (which I can't figure if it's the same as the A900UST or not, they seem to appear together in documents though).
Take a whack at it:
http://mamiso.blog.shinobi.jp/CM/9/89/

It seems to be saying that the EXH-313 is based on the ATH-A900, but is modified to the extreme with UST technology from Intel and Den Labs. Perhaps that modification turned it into a world-class headphone?

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post #186 of 254
5/12/12 at 12:49pm
No idea - could not find anything on "Intel UST" or similar on the 'net for more information about it (or an English-language page that explains it). redface.gif
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post #187 of 254
5/13/12 at 11:02am
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I can't find anything from Den Labs or Den Research, which is cited a lot on the website of Audio Interu. They also sell a DAC and an amp...

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post #188 of 254
5/27/12 at 3:42am
Altec Lansing has apparently released some flagship grade (at least flagship expensive) stuff without anyone noticing:
http://www.alteclansing.com/ae/us/headphones/a3-custom-triple-driver-earphone-/invt/cs7006/
http://www.alteclansing.com/ae/us/headphones/a2-custom-dual-driver-earphone-/invt/cs5006/
http://www.alteclansing.com/ae/us/headphones/a1-custom-single-driver-earphone/invt/cs2006/
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post #189 of 254
5/27/12 at 9:35am
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Altec Lansing has apparently released some flagship grade (at least flagship expensive) stuff without anyone noticing:
http://www.alteclansing.com/ae/us/headphones/a3-custom-triple-driver-earphone-/invt/cs7006/
http://www.alteclansing.com/ae/us/headphones/a2-custom-dual-driver-earphone-/invt/cs5006/
http://www.alteclansing.com/ae/us/headphones/a1-custom-single-driver-earphone/invt/cs2006/

They tend to do that, don't they? It'll be in the next update.

 

EDIT: Somehow I doubt that they're Altec-Lansing OEM.


Edited by ssrock64 - 5/27/12 at 9:36am
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post #190 of 254
5/27/12 at 10:20am
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They tend to do that, don't they? It'll be in the next update.

 

EDIT: Somehow I doubt that they're Altec-Lansing OEM.

I'm confused here. What does ACS have anything to do with Altec Lansing's customs? Don't tell me they ship the impressions across the pond to have the customs built?

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post #191 of 254
5/27/12 at 7:55pm
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Originally Posted by ssrock64 View Post

They tend to do that, don't they? It'll be in the next update.

EDIT: Somehow I doubt that they're Altec-Lansing OEM.

I found a (brief) thread on them:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/580467/new-altec-lansing-custom-series-iems

It seems that it's a partnership of sorts between Altec and ACS (likely Altec just specs what they want and ACS does it). Despite that, they may still be different than ACS products; I don't know though.
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post #192 of 254
5/27/12 at 9:11pm

So it's like the case with Stage93 in Singapore?

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post #193 of 254
5/27/12 at 10:19pm
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So it's like the case with Stage93 in Singapore?

No idea what/who that is...sorry.
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post #194 of 254
5/28/12 at 10:41am

I recall seeing Altec Lansing's CIEMs on Amazon a few weeks back. I want to say that they're rebranded ACS products... but I'm not sure where I saw that, come to think of it.

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post #195 of 254
5/29/12 at 9:59am
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Updated the Altec Lansing listing.

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