[QUOTE="buzzlulu, post: 13558599, member: 8394"
The build quality, construction and comfort, imho, is off the charts. I found the Z1R's to be more comfortable than my Utopia's.[/QUOTE]
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@buzzlulu. Been a long time, those were the days of the HD600, R10 and so on.
Anyway, regardless of all the talk about the Z1R and about liking them or not liking them, I think you hit a spot that - to me at least - is not subjective and totally something the Sony team should be proud of: After many years in the hobby, this is a model that feels exceptionally well built. Materials and assembly, overall presentation, the function-over-form design with no useless elements, the comfort that is now the baseline for closed cans - and many open cans.
Yup. At least when the sound is turned off, I think many of us truly find these cans exceptional.
When you turn up the volume, well, that's a topic worth more discussion.