OK folks I have pondered greatly as to the decision on which way to present this info without making a total laughing stock ass of myself by using a bunch of audiophile jargon which i only vaguely understand. Thus i have decided on the cheep, tawdry, slither up from the wagon rut (much like your favorite lawyer), direct, punch in the gut. No dilly dallying, no flowery words (well as little as humanly possible anyway). " Just the facts please ma'am" as one Joe Friday would say ( I wonder how many of you will remember that or for that matter ... have ever heard of it.. look it up for God's sake)
Caution .....To my ears only!!!! ( thus the lawyer reference)
After 50 + hours of burn in, after three dacs, five amps, and two different cables. compared against only two other cans Grado 225i and Mr Speakers Alpha Dogs (sorry that's all of my cans and other than a few 10 min or so demos of sens 650, 800s and a brief try of a 880 (which i immediately sent back)
^^^^^ refer to Caution above please
The Elears are my personal end game. That is PERIOD with a P dot dot dot
Let me explain
If you want a set of headphones that:
1: Put you in the front three rows in the middle of that orchestral stage and you hear each instrument with uncanny clarity, location, sound dynamics and punch. These are your cans
2. Sit you 10 feet away from Diana Krall as she sings Desperado directly to you and you hear every breath, intonation and sigh she utters, thus making you infinitely embarrassed to stand up in a crowded room.
These are the cans for you
3 Places you 5 rows deep center stage in front of Mick jagger, David Bowie, John Lennon, David Gilmore or any number of your favorite rock bands and made your sinus cavities quake with that piercing guitar, gut wrenching sub base and knee exhausting near collapse from perching that brunette from Poli Sci class on your shoulders all the while thinking " whats that smell, how did I get here and why am I talking to myself" .... (ahh those were the days my friend) These are the cans for you.
4: [size=10pt]And FINALLY ... If you have a shear desire to hear your music as that hard working musician and studio intended while relaxing in bliss, clean, clear, sweet, driving, "take me now sweet Jesus"... "HOT DAMN I'M ALIVE" quality of music. These cans are for you.[/size]
[size=10pt]Now I hope this explains why this is MY personal end game. I need nothing else. I am almost positive there ARE better out there. Perhaps they are more expensive, perhaps they are less expensive, perhaps they are better with this or that genre, perhaps they are better with this or that cable or dac, or dap or amp or format or mod etc etc etc. But, currently, the Elears will make me happy for a long, long time. I will be quite content to go thru the rest of my life ... if need be... with my teac ud 301 as my dac, my Violectric HPA 90 and those lovely jewels of Ear candy called music. [/size]
[size=10pt]As I say this .... YOU folks are saying ..... "BS he'll be digging in his wallet by next week!!!" You are probably right too [/size]
Quality is subjective for every living creature. With me being as creature as creature can be, I feel that these are BMW or Mercedes in style at an Audi price. Worth every damn bit of what you pay for.
Now are the Elears ALL sweetness and LOVE. NO
These are Damn heavy 10 grams heavier than my Alpha Dogs but they are comfortable to wear... go figure. Very comfortable indeed.
The included cable could have been put to good use to strap down the space shuttle while flying it to Florida.
And sound wise.... if you have badly recorded music that you are hoping against hope that these will make it all better, well just tuck that K back into your wallet, cause these will expose that dime store engineer who should be selling supermarket PA systems rather than mixing music and make you want to ask Hillary's staff to grab a hammer to fix his mixing board.
Also, if you are a basshead.... these are 'NOT FOR YOU .... NOT FOR YOU" (Picture your mama telling you that as she slaps your wrist after you stole that candy when you were a mere tike) [size=10pt]The bass and subbase is clean, clear, punchy and TRUE to its origin. It’s there in all its glory as the studio intended for nearly any genre.[/size][size=10pt] [/size][size=10pt]However its not there if you truly want your eyeballs fluttering in their sockets.[/size]
[size=10pt]Finally[/size]
[size=10pt]What else can I say? If I didn't put a [size=13.3333px]definitive[/size][size=10pt] picture of where I stand on the sound and overall quality of the Elear, then I have failed [/size][size=13.3333px]miserably[/size][size=10pt] in trying and I deserve your scorn and laughter. If I have [/size][size=13.3333px]succeeded[/size][size=10pt], then I have served my special purpose on this earth and ya'll can allow me to exist on this forum for yet another day.[/size][/size]
[size=10pt]Enjoy these, most of you will NOT make a wrong decision with this choice. [/size]