Also would like you opinion on the preference bounds. It's clear that there are quite a lot of people who like signatures that lie quite far outside those bounds. I see the usefulness of complying to a variant of DF tilt for mass market products to make sounding "normal" sounding and widely...

So once you hit perfect compliance with your preference curve to your HRTF given low enough distortion, that's the endgame? Seems pretty achievable right now with EQ

That's a sentiment I totally agree with, however, other statements in this thread indicate otherwise, in that all of those aspects are encoded in FR, which is a very different statement from we haven't been able to eliminate FR as a confounding factor. I'm very much in agreement with your...

They publish research around how standards like 5128 are created. Most of the research that's referenced in the objective side of the audio space are all white papers that are made by institutions and organisations that are very much more academically inclined than hobby focused. What I mean to...

I'm referring to science in general, and here the conclusions that are being drawn by folks based on the available research clearly exhibits a similar bias. Also, wild guess but I gather that the folks writing papers for B&K are more closely aligned with academia than audiophile forum gossip.

If you EQed STORM to IE900 or airline buds, STORM would be more resolving than the IE900 or airline bud when heard next to each other is what is being posited. Not that FR has absolutely no impact on perceived resolution.

I'll chime in just once. We have been following the research as well and though there are indicators that FR at DRP is a large contributing factor to the listening experience, the notion that it is the be-all and end-all is far from conclusive. This is something we have tested internally...

Cross posting for clarity: Hey everyone, we would just like to clarify some things. The design of the shell is not final and is the latest revision we had on hand to give a rough idea of the adjustments that will be made. The canvas case in the video is also not the regular edition case and is...

That's perfectly fine, STORM is a a no-holes-barred halo product that is also demanding of the user in its chain requirements. The performance ceiling of STORM is extreme as that was one of the design objectives and goals we set for ourselves, but that's something that not everyone needs or even...

Yes, the price will indeed be increased. 6000USD is the current estimate. Increases are due to inflation of prices of raw materials alongside increase in local taxes. As it is the Launch Edition was subsidised on our end, and towards the end of the Launch Edition run the unit economics started...

No increase in price. For pins we have 2pin recessed, 2pin flushed, MMCX, QDC/UE Extruded, FitEar, IPX, Pentaconn Ear (Acoustune/Elysian) readily stocked, we can do essentially any termination but for terminations that aren't stocked there will be additional lead time as we have to order them...

Hey everyone, we would just like to clarify some things. The design of the shell is not final and is the latest revision we had on hand to give a rough idea of the adjustments that will be made. The canvas case in the video is also not the regular edition case and is a simple case we use...

I've heard good things about both. I've personally only tried the ESS. Maybe others who have tried all the modules can comment further.

I think it would be best not to conflate scaling potential with being difficult to drive. Even out of moderately powered DAPs, like the R6PII, I would still think that most people will hear STORM as more than deserving of it's summit-fi status when compared to its peers. We designed STORM to...

Yup!