Yeah I was wondering about the cost reduction. I thought maybe some savings on account of a bigger order and using some borrowed parts (case), and is being manufactured in China rather than here could save a bit. Assuming the QA/QC is decent, hopefully they'd be putting together a similar unit...

What about the Little Dot IV SE? I have one of those but haven't yet run the xfi's DAC to it yet. I was considering the MassDrop Liquid Carbon because of it's balanced section.

So the RCA out and the XLR out are both line-level? The manual makes it sounds like the RCA is line level but is unclear on the two XLR left and right outputs on the back. I ask specifically cause I'm interested in that Massdrop Liquid Carbon X and wanted to know if the Pulse Xfi would be a...

Does anyone know if the Pulse Xfi has balanced DAC-only output? If I wanted to use the DAC portion but route that to another amplifier, can that be done? I apologize, I'm not super up on all routing particulars or best practices. I figure I probably don't want the amp coloring the sound though...

It must be a real curse to be compelled to buy everything you see. 

Anyone purchase and have received their Audeze LCD-2 headphones from the campaign?

Clearly, there is some minority of customers that are experiencing problems. And from what I've read, LHLabs appears to be addressing those concerns. My fingers are crossed that the unit I receive is in full working order and won't need a return.    I am not suggesting that customers' concerns...

It is worth reminding ourselves every so often that we chose to save money by taking on risks in production/fulfillment schedule and ultimately delivery at all. I'm not concerned that they won't deliver since they have on previous projects, but we decided to pay money for a product that didn't...

Are you saying a giant crowdfunding effort with thousands of customers and hundreds of parts in lots of different configurations with a bunch of extra add-ons and several bundle options may have resulted in some kind of miscommunication?   That seems ridiculous, we should jump to foul play...

Also, when I look for Jay's LPS, I only find that one mass-buy that is already closed and seemed to be for Asia only? Is there a reliable place to pick one up?

While I don't want to minimize the importance of clearly setting expectations and good communication, there are whole industries that revolve around the challenges of logistics, of moving lots of things from here to there. Boiling down the hundreds (or thousands) or orders and variants of orders...

Do we know if both the balanced and unbalanced sides of the X will use the femto clocks? I don't know enough about this sorta hardware to know if that's easy and expected or complicated and more expensive/etc.

Can anyone help explain to a newb -- I had intended on getting the Geek Pulse unit but amidst the furor and requests for a balanced device, I am now considering the Pulse X upgrade.    I do not currently have any balanced headphones, but I am considering picking up some planars in the future...

amham, can you elaborate on your experience with the SE and the HE-500's? I have an SE on the way and have been intrigued by the HE-500 lately. I thought I'd heard someone talk about them being mismatched, but I reckon it's a personal taste matter and would appreciate hearing about yours if you...

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