Honestly, gluing the tips of the fazors on would be about as complex as gluing a cut off tip of a pyramid back on. It should be relatively easy - super easy if the top pieces were designed to have slight tabs on the bottom to notch into the channel of the fazors where the metal rod would sit...

Interesting... I haven't been following the LCD changes (keeping up on stuff here is never good for the wallet), so I wasn't aware of the addition of the "fazors". They certainly seem to be easy enough to integrate into the pad side retention ring. Heck, they even lend themselves to magnetic...

Well, I did a tweak to the design to make it useful without any adhesive ring to help keep the pads in place against gravity etc. Now paperclips (or any other sufficiently small ferrous metal rod) span the distance between the top and bottom standoffs. These are attracted to the magnetic field...

Well, I've had my LCD-2's for what seems like forever now and the original adhesive rings keeping the earpads on eventually wore out allowing them to slide (and make an adhesive mess on the plate they attach to). Audeze sent me new ones upon request, but for whatever reason, the new ones never...

Quote: New driver diaphragm, so it's probably an entirely new trace pattern, etc. How much of a difference does there really need to be to get a new model number? Just look at the HD 580/600/650s...

Quote: It certainly wouldn't surprise me if that ends up being the case, but I hope it's $1500 or less. Not that I have any plans of upgrading right now anyhow, but $2K would put them squarely in the "probably never" category for me.

Quote: Given their wording of "no compromises" and such, I'd be surprised if the LCD-3 don't make the LCD-2's look like a bargain. In the very least we're probably looking at an additional 30%.

Quote: The jacks themselves are not angled in the LCD-2. The entry point is moved up the cup edge so they don't stick straight down, but the jack itself is still going straight out. Combine that with the fact that the offset angle is relatively low, and the mount + cable together stick...

Quote: Not like the LCD-3's mounts... Unless you had some freak LCD-2.

Biggest change ergonomically appears to be the angled XLR jacks... Should help the cable hitting the shoulder problem, but outside of that it looks like we're dealing with the typical LCD-2 fit issues.

Reordering the list to better reflect the fact that the 531xxxx serial number range is the latest production run... That and people tend to throw their number at the bottom, so it's more likely to keep sorted this way.   5597824 SemiAudiophile (new foam, preorder 5/10/10) 5597837 momomo6789...

Assuming a planar magnetic microphone with the surface area the same size as the LCD-2s... The LCD-2 v2s were made using a "thinner and more reliable diaphragm material". A thinner, lighter diaphragm would be equally, if not more advantageous to a microphone than it is to a headphone. Perhaps...

Nope, I haven't tried them. My last ear buds were the Audio Technica CM7ti, and my last IEMs were the UE Super.Fi 5. I only bought the IEMs for isolation purposes - and wouldn't wear them unless I absolutely needed that isolation. As far as ear buds go, I simply no longer have a need for them...

The flaw in the logic only applies to you and people who are biologically like you. Some find glasses comfortable. Some do not. Some find contacts comfortable. Some do not. Some people like warm pillows. Some like cold. I could go on forever. You're not getting the fact that you are not the...

Earbuds aren't weightless and require a certain amount of a seal to register any real bass. Combine the two things and you have a weight and contact on the inside of your ear that some people such as myself find rather uncomfortable. For you, the weight and clamp of full size are more of a...

It doesn't really matter what the world in general caters to. There will always be niches that a company steps up to serve. So long as there is still a significant amount people that want something, there will be a business that caters to them - no matter how ridiculous their desires might be...

Welcome to Head-Fi where dang near everything is exaggerated. While, I don't agree with a lot of what you say about the LCD-2, I wont argue with you. Headphones are a very personal thing, and what works for one person does not mean it will work for everybody. Comfort, HRTFs, and general...

  Quote: I actually wasn't really focusing on the cable argument. I just saw comments like "the human ear can be better than any measuring equipment", and I have seen that viewpoint echoed a number of times by various people on differing threads. My curiosity finally got the better of...

Quote: Triangulating sound is totally possible, and we've even created devices that can triangulate the position of where a gun was shot, and even *what* gun it was. Ignoring the specific example, and going more on the theme - that's analyzing the recorded information. I already covered...

Quote: No problem, I kind of figured it was something of the sort. I meant my comment to be in a joking tone, but forgot to put the  at the end. Downside to internet communication - too reliant on emoticons, especially when dealing with non-native speakers.

Quote: Haha... True, true. To be completely accurate, I'd have to word it as "At least one of these statements is false."   

Quote: Wait, you never listened to it with the stock cable, but you know the replacement improves aspects of the sound? One of these statements is false.

Do you people really think that the ear is more precise and resolving than modern technology? I can understand the belief that we can't properly translate all the data that we measure into how it affects what we hear, because that has a lot of truth to it. To believe the ear is actually superior...

Quote: I haven't personally been able to look at the old style block, but from what I see in pictures, they're not very different. (http://cdn.head-fi.org/4/41/41f1ddf8_lcd2studio1.jpg) The older style just looks like a sharper edged metal version. Same set screw, same four mounting...

Quote:   Some people claim to hear a difference, others claim not to. I'm not going to bother weighing in on that, as I don't care one way or the other. I'm not selling cables, nor do I care what people do spend their money on if it makes them happy. Machines, however, pretty much...