Pittsburgh, PA

For sale is my Focal Utopia which I bought used a few months ago. Probably pre-2020, but I’m not sure. I believe they’ve had multiple owners, but the condition is good. Pads seem to have a decent bit of life left and they come with the stock cable and box. I can throw in my Corpse Cable XLR...

Price dropped.

No clue. Also it’s sold.

I had been out of the audio game for awhile until I heard of the Studio B. I always wanted to try an Eddie Current amp, and now I have. I ordered this in November last year and I received the amp this week. I purchased some Golden Lion 300B tubes (the amp doesn’t come with 300b tubes stock) and...

Fairly recently purchased these ZMFs. The pictures don't do the blackwood justice, it is gorgeous. Haven't given them much head time, and they're in pretty pristine condition. They have the updated headband which is an exponential increase in comfort if you've had issues with ZMFs in the past. I...

It's a headphone, not furniture. What do they even mean.

Love the names of these. I'm very excited to try both. The Verites particulary looks fantastic.

There will be a head-fi meet at Music To My Ear on August 4th. @MTMECraig can be messaged for more details about the shop. The last meet here was a blast with a great deal of interesting gear to try. Returning will be the ZMF Dynamics provided by Zach and local owners to try out. I'll be...

My insight is that you need more time to cultivate your critical listening skills. No shame in that, and I don't think anyone was a good critical listener from the outset. Those headphones all have very different sound signatures and are more or less all pretty flawed. This means that the...

So you can better appreciate how it sounds before you mod it?

Hey Mr Speakers, is there a confirmed name for the Ether Electrostatic headphone? Usually you come up with neat names like "ether, flow, aeon", I'm looking forward to what you do with this one.

Nice, I'll be there. Gear: -Audio-GD NFB11 -Moon Audio Dragon Inspire IHA-1 -HD800 -HD600

Would there be an issue to bring in your own gear (say, DAC, amp, headphones) to listen to some headphones with or compare against? Its good to have a reference of course, and I'd be happy to have the staff try out my stuff.

Tyll has his opinion, and you have your own. Instead of trying to defend your purchases by being mad at other people's opinions, why not listen to some actual music and enjoy the headphones. I ignored his impressions the day an HD800 wasn't on his WoF, they don't represent me. You do the same...

That's not really how it works. Headphones like these use very little power and don't have long cables (under 15 feet usually). Always use what your amplifier was created with in mind. A good example is the Audio-GD NFB28 and NFB29H. The 28 is best used with balanced connections, since it was...

Agreed. Eikon + Ori pads is very dynamic and clear.

Yeah I'm quite happy with it. The transformer upgrade seems to help a lot, I've read issues about it being anemic when it comes to power but it has quite a bit of oomph with the upgrade. edit: Mother of God what don't you own.

Well I can confirm that the Dragon Inspire IHA-1 works well with the Eikon. Very clean and dynamic. Wide staging with a little added depth, which is common for good tube amps, but none of the tube bloom which is refreshing to me.

Try Ori pads on the Eikon. Much more dynamic for me.

I've found that I much prefer the Ori pads on the Eikon. Gives me a better seal than the Eikon pads I believe as the mid bass is tamed slightly and the sub bass is raised more in-line giving it much cleaner bass impact and texture. That's likely down to anatomy, as a friend of mine has the...

I'm incredibly interested in measurements with a cracked pair. The HE-5 was notorious for channel imbalance caused by cracks.

And what a ZMF to start with. These two have firm hold over the closed back market, nothing comes all that close.

It seems like the M1060 might not be ideal stock. The real question is (and in my mind always was): How are they with proven and known to be good pads? Audeze Vegans perhaps, ZMF pads, alpha pads, HM5 velours, and Focus pads? That's where things will get interesting if monoprice sorts this...

Monoprice might have went a bit too far when trying to copy Audeze, this wasn't what we were asking to be copied.