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    The New AEON 2: It's The End Of MrSpeakers

    I would be shocked if it could, considering the Dragonfly Red puts out around 25mW of power at full tilt at 32 ohms. It couldn't even drive my EMU Teak correctly, the bass was flabby and distorted. The Dragonfly series are not strong amps...
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    Aeon 2 closed Impressions and Discussion

    The first problem is that eyesight is a sense that is both objectively measurable and also obvious when it is compromised. It is easy and completely justified to sort people into classes of eyesight - hell, you need to in order to prescribe the medication that treats it. This is not true for...
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    Aeon 2 closed Impressions and Discussion

    The problem with this mentality is that it specifically interferes with people's ability to respect each other because it separates people and their opinions into classes and creates perverse incentives for people to believe they hear differences even when they don't. This leads to reviews in...
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    Aeon 2 closed Impressions and Discussion

    Yeah, well, I guess it's a shame that the DUMMER cable is apparently too expensive on its own to put in the box with the VIVO for people to make up their own minds instead of making you choose whether or not you're going to just take their word for it.
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    Aeon 2 closed Impressions and Discussion

    Quite frankly, over the course of reading this thread a few times, Matt strikes me as greasy in their praise for the product. The cable endorsement was the straw that made me say something about it. I'm sorry but I'm not gonna pay two hundred extra for a cable to replace a cable that already...
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    Aeon 2 closed Impressions and Discussion

    I'm also very interested in this product, but there is a stumbling block for me - I'm really not into the idea of having to pay two hundred extra dollars to get the cable I want (balanced 2.5mm, a requirement to use the new E1DA PDv2). Frankly, I see high-end cables as a cash grab, and I see no...
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    Aeon 2 closed Impressions and Discussion

    I'm most curious as to how the sub-bass extension is on these, a criteria in which I find most headphones to be pretty lacking after my experiments with the SZ2000. Also, how is the ease of fit and seal? I'm currently likely to sell my E-MU Teak after discovering that my head is too small for...
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    E-MU Wooden Series Headphones

    The reason why this tipped me off is that I hear the ringing happening sometimes when I pause the music. It's also significantly louder on the left cup than the right cup. So... what exactly do I do if I want to have these looked at?
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    E-MU Wooden Series Headphones

    So, I finally figured out what was causing the obnoxious resonance peak. Has anyone else noticed that if you tap certain parts of the headband, especially the plastic part between the slide and the headband, you can hear resonance in the cups that sounds like a ringing? Or, am I the only one who...
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    The Hardest hitting Headphones are.. ( "The EXTREME BASS Club")

    Buy a bag of cotton balls and stick them under the pads until your ears are off the drivers. They feel way better on your head once you do this.
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    E-MU Wooden Series Headphones

    I'm saying that, when I do a frequency response sweep, without any EQ, there is a peak at 2.5KHz that is at around 7-9dB louder than the response at 1KHz. There is nothing in any measurement I've seen that would suggest this should be the case - quite the opposite, actually. See this dip that's...
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    E-MU Wooden Series Headphones

    They're in the stock position.
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    E-MU Wooden Series Headphones

    I bought an E-MU Teak and I'm really disappointed. They don't sound anything like I would have expected - to my ears they are extremely harsh, and after testing frequency response on a frequency sweeper, they have a massive response starting at around 1.75KHz, and peaking much louder than any...
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    I want to have a custom headband made for my JVC-HA-SZ2000. How do I go about doing this?

    I love my headphone, but it has some build quality issues. The cups are rock solid but the headband is sort of flimsy, creaky plastic, and I don't have a ton of faith in the hinges. Also, the model is getting pretty rare and expensive and I want to ensure that my headphone will have a longer...
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    What's the most powerful battery powered amp/DAC combo available right now? iFi iDSD?

    Yeah, but here's the deal - if you check my signature you'll see that I have them subtractive EQ'd down about -18 to -24dB so that I can turn them into seriously powerful sub-bass cans, so their sensitivity in turn is drastically reduced, to the tune of requiring somewhere between 64 and 256x...
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