Are you looking specifically for sport optics? The brands that compete in the impact protection niche vs the consumer niche are often different. For good optics that are also impact resistant (similar to Oakley), I would recommend Rudy Project. Their polycarbonate lenses seem to be a little...

Part of it depends on preference, as different brands have different features. Maui Jim competes in the same market and also makes very good lenses that are highly respected in the industry. Personally, I'm a big fan of Salt Optics and Leisure Society (for their frames, as well). Salt has a wide...

No, they're associated with the Bushnell / Vista Outdoors group. I don't have a vintage Corning pair, but I did have a modern one and liked the optics and construction quite a bit. I had to get a spare part once and found their customer service to be responsive as well. Looks like you're...

I find Serengeti's to be well made and have competitive optics. Since they aren't owned by Luxottica, unfortunately you don't see too many stockists for them. Revo has some of the better optics in Luxottica's portfolio, but I wouldn't rate them as highly. I've only tried Smith's goggles, but I...

Thanks, I appreciate it a lot. Maybe someday I will branch out to Youtube videos or something. As for Lindberg, I would say that their air titanium frames are better suited for eyeglasses than sunglasses. Because the wire is thicker than sheetmetal, the lenses for sunglasses need to be custom...

They each have their advantages and disadvantages IMO, so I own both. The nice thing about the Mykita hinge is that you can clip the sunglasses folded on your shirt when you aren't using them, and they won't spring up and fall off. Also Mykita has softer silicon pads, better antireflective...

Count me in. Thanks for the chance!

So I finally got around to getting mine a couple weeks ago. Thanks again @moedawg140 for letting me try yours last year at CanJam. These are easily the best headphones I've had yet. Tried a few others at and above the SE846's price range, but for some reason none of them jumped out at me like...

Anyone see a deal on the Shure SE846?

Just got mine. To me, it sounds bassier than neutral, and definitely bassier than the Zune HD I was using before. I'm noticing a huge difference with full-sized cans like the HD700. Apparently even with an amp the Zune was doing a pitiful job of powering these, whereas the DX90 fares much...

The way I understand it, you can set it up so that you'll only buy an item if enough people sign up to make the lowest price available. I've never used it, though.

It seems like the samples available at canjam were mostly jazz, so it would be nice to have something different from that. Rather than people's favorite songs, it would be a good idea to use well-mastered tracks within a particular genre that would give fans of that genre an idea of how the...

Got an email this morning. It seems that they left it up to the vendors to contact the winners who weren't there, and the vendors seem to be contacting people at different times.   Time for me to read up on Final Audio Design. I've been out of the loop for a while and haven't heard of the brand...

Lol, the gf is already trying to steal it now that she knows I won something. Funny thing is, I brought her and another one of my non-audiophile friends to the event. I wasn't planning on doing the scavenger hunt, but they decided to do it, so I played along. Then after about two signatures they...

Just got an email that I won something! Or maybe it's a highly convincing April Fool's day joke...

That's actually the one that turned me off of bluetooth speakers. Someone showed me one once and was bragging about how loud it was, but it sounded bad and tinny at all volumes. The waterproof part of it impressed me, but the Riva sounds much better. Riva actually had a Bowers and Wilkins and...

I came looking for just IEM's and DAP's, but ended up seeing a lot of interesting things I wouldn't have expected, partly due to the scavenger hunt. My favorite IEM that I tried was actually one not displayed by the show, but lent by moedawg140. Thanks again to him for letting me try his Shure...

  Still pretty niche, although I imagine not so much as in some other parts of the country. A lot of people in Orange County have disposable income for hobbies, so I've spotted some legit audio gear in the wild. Also, a lot of the music industry is based in LA.

  Thanks, just asking because I may be bringing a couple of non-audiophiles. Well, one of them is dragging me to a wedding the day before, so she'd at least better come. Can we come in and out of the event, or is it just one entry?

We can buy tickets at the door on Sunday, right?   Also, does anyone know if the vendors will have the Shure SE846 or iBasso DX90 to try out?

Huh, I haven't updated this in quite a while...    I have tried a couple of Silhouette sunglasses. The optics were easily above average, I thought. I had the beta titanium hingeless ones, so the frames were pretty minimalistic, but they were very light and comfortable. I've heard that these...

Never heard of them being perceived that way, but if so, I'm in the same boat. 

  It should say on their website which models have Zeiss lenses. Nearly every new pair would have Zeiss lenses. My Bernhard Willhelm collaboration ones don't have the Zeiss watermark, though. I do have other pairs that are gradient or mirrored and do have the Zeiss watermark. I don't have any...

They had it at 50% off, but the coupon expired before the holidays.

  Heh, unfortunately I can't use that argument because I apply the same Head-fi mentality to shoes and clothes. On the plus side, yours sounds like she's ripe for Head-fi conversion, though...