Does Zach ever do any other colour leather? Some aged brown leather with blackwood and brass metal grills would work wonders...kinda like my 5 year old when he's after chocolate...wonders!

Thanks...I'll look into it, sounds interesting...no pun intended :)

Hi Zach, I hope I don't exclude myself out of the competition by asking this 'cause I mean nothing ill by it...I was wondering about the use of beryllium on your drivers. Its a rather hazardous material, so I was wondering if you have any special protocol during assembly? Or were there any...

Congrats on the launch...they both look gorgeous!

Hi First let me say wonderfully presented and educational. I do have some concerns or maybe suggestions to engineers of phantoms. I am a dosimetrist in radiophysics and I work with a lot of different phantoms and measuring equipment (mostly anthropomorphic phantoms and water phantoms for QA and...

Still I can't stop thinking if that chamber fills with dust (remember mobile phones from the past with pocket dust between glass and screen), 'cause it can't be airtight and with moving parts inside I'm almost sure it will produce some if not just let it in from the outside?

My bad...it's indeed concave, still a lens would have looked nicer but wouldn't have had the same acoustic properties.

Damn...I thought the glass was "dome" shaped, like a lens on a camera...too bad, would have looked way better, now looks kind of cheaper with just a flat piece of glass?!

Honestly these look gorgeous, my only question and concern at the same time (design wise) is about the glass chamber...with time and use that space will most likely develop or let through some fine particles of dust, and with glass most likely non removable, it will be impossible to clean...dust...

Hi Jason Any news on the issue I have with ripping CDs with the screen turned off? I ripped over 30CDs by now and the issue remains, if I turn off the screen while ripping and then turn it back on to see the progress, sometimes the ripping stops. If the screen is always on it rips fine but Kann...

HI...thanks for the quick response...Yes I have the latest firmware, and honestly it's ripping CDs without any problems, BUT only if the screen is turned on! The downside of that is that it can cause "burn in" on the LCD screen and the player also gets really hot if the screen is ON longer time...

Hope someone can help me out here?...I just got the Kann with the new CD ripper MKII and the weird thing that happens is if I rip CDs with the screen turned "off" the ripping stops after a certain amount of time (different every time), and while I thought this is due to the Kann turning itself...

Congratulations to the winner!... and thank you Zach for letting Europeans participate in this contest, I really appreciate this...hopefully I get to experience your headphones someday in the near future and fingers crossed you get to make some from Snakewood :) All the best and...cheers :)

Good eye! The detail on that picture that struck me the most was the grain flows in the same line as the "arm" and the connector...touches like that inspire the designer in me. I zoomed the picture as much as possible and the wood really looks flawlessly finished...wonder how some age or wear...

Damn...kept looking at the picture above...it IS a piece of art!

The pictures of Auteur so far didn't do them justice...this is a almost a piece of art, thank you grizzlybeast for the impressions. Cheers.

Good luck to all and as I wrote on ZMF site...SNAKEWOOD, SNAKEWOOD, SNAKEWOOD! Cheers :)

I have been active at this thread from the beginning and have asked a couple times about "how will Europeans get to order these" and aside from this news about France, I haven't heard any other plans. It would be lovely if you could elaborate any plans for European orders...much obliged! Thank...

I am one of those who absolutely loves the presentation box (think of me like a skater or a rocker but can't skate or play a guitar to save my life, or an audiophile without the knowledge to dissect sound, a poser basically and I'm OK with that...but even posers serve a purpose so...) Still...

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I don't know them half as well as I should like, and I'd like to have them more than half as much as I deserve! I have a lovely young family and after a long day at work and after that playing ball with my 3 year old for 3 hours I just want to chill and listen to music on the best damn headphone...

Not entirely true! (lol at myself for not knowing how to quote from other threads so just doing a copy paste from an LCD-4 thread....sorry)   Originally Posted by Audeze    About  10% to 15% of our market is Pro Audio users, mostly LCD-X/XC models. From mastering engineers to studios to...

An Audeze representative has stated on Headfi that it is going to be 1200$...so in my opinion perfect...if the build is top notch?! Too bad LCD X don't have the design of EL8 (nicest produced headphones ever...just that cable grrr) But what do you think about that missing fazor? I mean LCD Pro...

Tottaly agree, I would love to review them from a craftsmanship perspective...no sound just build.

thank you for the comment and explaining the Focal issues...again wow...did not know that. Would love to know what is the most occurring issue with headphones is (build materials, drivers, glue...) and just propose companies to stop using that...I know naive and easy to say but it would be great...