About the mini French meeting, the last weekend, which brought together the best headphones currently in production in the world (except the system Sennheiser orpheus2)
https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/n...m-fischer-at-ifa.732814/page-81#post-13459142, the French forum HCFR made several small video reports on the place of the meeting; Here are two youtube video; You can use the subtitle translator to translate the text in English.
If I were to sum up certain impressions of this meeting,
There is little talk about Kennerton headphones, but Bernard (Kéké26, the inventor of the famous Kékénerton V1 and V2 headband, improving the wearing comfort of the Odin, especially for small heads) prefers as headphones the Odin (2.45 K€) and the HE-1000 V2 (3 K€); He also liked the new Edition 6 (Susvara) of Hifiman, but finds its price (6 K€) unjustified; The Shangri-La (electrostatic headphone + dedicated amplifier ) did not make the unanimously; The price of this set is surreal (50 K€); Note that the Stax SR-009 (4.5 K€) is much too dark with the tube amp 300 B of the Shangri-La; The small amp SRM 353-X (1.2 K€) worked better, for the Stax SR-009! Otherwise, the copy of the LCD4 (5 K€) tested did not convince; Some found it boring (even on the Viva 845 amp! (11.5 K€).
The Focal Utopia (4 K€) is just as appealing to some as the HE-1000 V2 (3 K€) (Note: maybe this is one of the very first series of this headphone Utopia, like the copy tested by Tyll ? (smile)).
We did not talk about the Vali or the Elear, each one of these very good 1 K headphones having their supporters.
Otherwise, the Abyss Phi (6 K€) tested has been enjoyed by those who already liked the Abyss, but the upgrade of 2 K€ (to go from the Abyss to the Abyss Phi, replacing the drivers) is deemed expensive, and all the people will not make the transformation.
This is what I learned from this great moment of encounter.