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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    I’ve misplaced my Bathys headphone case. Is there a way to get another? I can’t find any information. My Bathy’s ear cups are also a little worse for wear, there’s a scratch on one side that’s shaved away some of the leather. Hard to say how it happened but the absent case and the damage have...
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    Bit of an unusual pairing but I'm enjoying the Bathy's with the Creative Soundblaster X5 dac and their bluetooth dongle. The cool thing about the dac is that the USB host port at the back supports the Bathys directly as well as the creative w4 bluetooth dongle which provides a nicer nice...
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    Sound Blaster X5

    I ordered this device to use with my PC & PS5 setup alongside my LCD GX. I'll post my thoughts when I receive it.
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    Does anyone know how these compare to the Audeze Maxwell? Because the only two headphones I own now are the Focal Bathys and the Audeze LCD GX and the GX are night and day, worlds ahead in quality above the Bathys. Detail, speed, soundstage and so forth. When I'm at home, I feel there's not a...
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    Yeah I guess I can see younger people seeing it like that. There was another guy that spoke to me in an art gallery that said he really liked the look of them. A bit unexpected because otherwise I’m not there type of person that gets stopped for compliments. Sometimes people stop and talk...
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    I was stopped twice while touring Edinburgh by people asking about the Bathys. An employee in the botanical garden gift shop said… “Damn those headphones look good! I bet they are good right? They’re expensive?” He went on to tell me he had grados at home but he’d never seen the Bathys. I told...
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    I think factory has too much bass for most music and I'm pretty happy with the midrange where it is. I do have an EQ with them bumped up by one or two DB though. I think if I push the mids as far as your eq then it actually gets a bit unpleasant and siblant.
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    No problem glad you figured it out. The user shouldn't have to manually sort things like this out, so I don't blame you for 'being lazy'. Focal should do a better job making sure it's consistently presented to all users. I bet there are a lot of folks using their device that don't have the...
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    It should just prompt you with an update in the app. If it doesn't then try to update the app.
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    How do people find the new EQ? It's interesting compared to the others because it doesn't tell you specifically how they've adjusted the EQ. I would suspect this might be either... a) the EQ is adjusted beyond the 5 band settings that we have available to us and they can't visualise that within...
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    Focal Bathys - Wireless ANC Over-Ear Headphone

    It's still going to depend heavily on what your 3.5mm source is, right? On my laptop directly, it sounds bad, maybe worse than BT, but on my Zen DAC I think it's very acceptable, if not as good as USB-C. The only use case I actually have for 3.5mm is plugged into the Switch or PS5 controller...
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    Focal Bathys - Wireless ANC Over-Ear Headphone

    I wouldn't worry about it. I was explaining it to someone else a few pages back, it's not that intuitive. But yeah like he said, you can't hear these headphones without their DAC, so you've always been evaluating how good the DAC is. That doesn't mean to say 3.5mm is bad though, perhaps that...
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    Since this post and my last one mine has progressed 8%. I did do everything it said not to though, locked my phone, suspended the app, and even turned off the headphone just to test what would happen and it just prompts you to reconnect, no disaster.
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    Focal Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth & ANC Headphones: Early Impressions

    What's your experience with the update? Mine is going at 1% per minute. The phone is connected via wireless at 500 mbs so It's not a bandwidth issue. The app also states that it needs you to keep the device unlocked and the app can't stay in the background? That seems quite hard to do for an...
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    T+A Solitaire T Wireless Headphone

    I actually thought that too when looking at Sony's headphones and things like that, but Steelseries is owned by GN Store Nord which is really not a huge company like Sony. Steelseries itself has 370 employees compared to Focals 220. How did they figure all of that out for their gaming...
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