I considered the AKG K701 to have excellent slam once I started pairing them with some serious amplifiers (primarily the Burson Soloist). The lower octaves were still a taut but polite rumble rather than having an imposing presence, but in some frequency above that there was excellent, high...

Makes sense. However, personal experience through my travels upgrading amps was that the headphones that struggled with the cheaper amps felt more dynamic on the more expensive (bigger) amps, and headphones that sounded fine on the cheaper amps did not exhibit the same improvements on the bigger...

Sweet jebus. I didn't think it was really possible to blow a set of high quality drivers. Possibly turned them up too loud underamped and killed them from amp clipping (leading to driver overheating)? Personal experience is that Aeon are pretty hard to drive. They aren't unpleasant by any means...

My experience, both as an engineer and as someone who's crashed/tipped over his fair share of motorcycles, is that aluminium is fairly brittle. You use it for light weight, and if you want structural strength, you brace it (a lot).

I can happliy jump from LCD-2 to Aeon and the sound opening up and the improvements in the high end are far more noticeable than the loss of low end (which is to say that it's still got power and rumble and sounds full). I'm not sure how much power your Polaris is putting out, but I can't...

I've got to take them on and off frequently in the office, and I'll usually open up Foobar and pause before I do. When you put them down, the cups clamp together. At one point, I picked them up and opened them up to put on my head, and found that I'd forgotten to pause and my music had still...

I'm liking them for metal, but I like Etys and 701s for metal, and now prefer the detail and dynamics of HE-500 to the dark boxiness of the LCD-2. At the moment they're a little hollow in the bass and not quite tight enough, but I've only been using them at work from a little iBasso, and haven't...

What, specifically, are you looking for? They're great for office use as they drop the outside world volume a reasonable amount, keep your music in, and quickly drown out the outside world with not much volume. But you'll still hear people's conversations without music playing. It's not a big...

Grumble grumble. It'll take till next Wednesday to reach Perth (also shipped this morning). The wait's been a bit of a bummer, but the service has very much impressed (sending out the pads after the fact based on feedback). The thought that these will be a better and fuller version of the...

If I may; you'd benefit from shooting in better lighting with a lower ISO. Part of why the shots aren't really showing the phones off properly is that they've got a lot of high ISO noise. They're grainy & gritty rather than smooth and rich (white photo notwithstanding).

While I haven't heard a vast range of IEMs (but have dabbled, including a custom, which was great until I lost it), I replaced my broken Ety ER-6 with the replacement Ety HF-5, and found them to be the same but better. Form factor is almost the same. Isolation is the same magic. Similarly after...

I'll happily leave my little ~$300 DAC/amp at work. $1000 (AUD) headphones, less so. Anyway, why all the opinions about whether people should wait for/use cases or not? It's a thing for some people. It isn't for others. I think we all care more about how the headphones will sound.

The drop in postage price has it wavering either side of $1k AUD depending on the spot exchange rate, and worth taking the risk on for customs duty.   However, I'm hitting this error when trying to pay. Generic processor error: 15012-The CE agreement for processing Mastercard is not accepted...

I'm finding it surprising that all reviews so far have mentioned balanced or forward mids. My impression of them is somewhat receded upper mids/lower treble like a less bad TF10, and that's my sole complaint (especially as I find that frequency range really engaging). Apart from that, they've...

FWIW, while I found the Ety triflanges reasonably uncomfortable to start with, I started to get used to them after a couple of times, and now I have no issues jamming them way into my ears and leaving them there for the duration of a 5 hour flight.   I like the HF5 (and their predecessor...

Lots of meetings and people bugging me for the first few hours after they arrived, so I didn't get a chance to put them in straight away!   But I've finally had about an hour with them. Initial impressions were that they had very impressive treble and bass extension, but were a little bit...

Had a chat to Mitch about it, and he said that now he's making 4 and 5 driver CIEMs, the construction and tuning is taking a fair bit longer. I guess as the orders pick up for these bad boys, it'll start to push dates out.   Either way, just a forewarning for the guys who are ordering now...

Tick tock, tick tock. The lab must be pretty overwhelmed at the moment, as my impressions have been there a bit over 5 weeks now.   I can deal with long lead times, and lead time would never be a factor in purchasing. But while the first week or so of checking the (e)mail for good news are...

It's not just clarity. It's dynamics as well. A great set of headphones can sound lifeless and flat even when they're loud, if they don't have enough power.

  Quote: +1 for you might not need foams. I get best results with flanged tips. I moved to black olives (that I had from other endeavours) on TripFis and ER6 when I eventually lost my flanged tips, and was never as happy with them. Currently getting great seal and sound from the...

Mitch has had my impressions coming on 4 weeks, so shouldn't be long now.   Waiting is a terrible business.

I had a DAC that I found particularly sibilant. Same headphones & amp with a number of other sources were fine. The only way to stop things sounding sibilant through that DAC was a tube amp.

  Quote: Well, I pretty much never ride without gloves, so it'd always be a gloves off, player in my hands affair. I tend to just put an album on and leave it though. S'pose if you didn't wear gloves, tactile buttons would be good.  

Quote: Quote: Right. But you don't own bikes. Riding with iems is fine.   My D2 has served me well. It fulfils most of your criteria: Has held up well even though I've dropped it on concrete a couple of times. It's small enough not to be stabbing you in the hip every time you...

Quote: IMO, the 701 is superior in most ways to the AD700 if both are unamped, but the 701 suffers with high energy music (rock/metal/etc).   Once you're amping both properly, the 701 destroys the AD700 (to my ears). They do similar things, but the 701 does all of those things better...