Personally I'd give higher weight to a genuine independent reviewer. Not to say Abyss is not accurate with their review it's just that they have a possible conflict of interest

Would have thought given the existing number of dcs users the amp would be an easy add on for those users looking to get into headphones . So why not make it the strongest element of the three?

this was from ECT in Hong Kong

Ouch

For those of you still waiting.. I ordered mine in early Jan and they just showed up today.. roughly 5 months

Received my new artic cable ( Aeris silver cable) .Aesthetically I dont think I’ve seen a better looking cable

Spoke to the HK distributor . Saying that any order placed now will at earliest be delivered in the third quarter this year

So I hadn't thought too hard when I was told 7-10 / month( guess I really wasn't paying attention) until I saw your post and yeah i agree 7-10 seems to low .. So I went back to the dealer and he again stated that it is 7-10 a month ( material supply and that the headphones are hand made...

Just ordered . Was told 2-3 months. The dealer mentioned they are making 7-10 per month so 2-3 months might be optimistic ..who knows. While there I got to compare the 009s and the 9000 briefly. Distinctly better build quality with the 9000 and I've never had a pair of headphones feel more...

Also an owner of the Diana phi .If the Diana TC turns out to be a huge step up and if abyss offered a decent trade-in I'd likely do it

Yeah that’s strange. i just checked and not seeing it at all. I know it was apparently just for sale in the US only.

Just ordered the KR 2A3 HP from tube amp doctor at a decent discount due to the VAT not being charged as I live in HK. (They did incorrectly send the non HP version but that has been sorted and the HP are on the way )

Thinking about also purchasing so please post thoughts once you have had a listen

My bad.. yep they are the elite. Not sure whether they’re called the meze empyrean elite or just meze elite. the case for them has them as the former while everywhere else seems to have them as the latter

Purchased the Argento cable for my meze empyrean and have to say very happy. Great quality build and attention to detail( the first thing I personally look for) .Looks fantastic . Little if any cable memory. Only a few hours listening thus far but zero complaints.