Anybody heard of Oriolus Crassirostris? http://www.aboutaudio.org/news-oriolus-crassirostris-to-be-released/

I had a lot of iems (u18t, Andromeda, ex1000, se846, Atlas) and had home listening sessions with others like Tia Trio, Solaris etc., have Meze Empyrean and Cupid wins with all of these. At the moment I have ex1000 and Meze and prefer Obravo 100%. The two just sound thin compared to this one...

Thanks for sharing, it's interesting, but I don't like the change these EQs are doing with Cupids. Tried eq Empyrean with jaakkopasanen/AutoEq results and didn't get good sound too. I think Cupids are quite impressive on their own.

HEX V2 doesn't have mids comparing to Empys and soundstage is just an artificial product of how lows and highs are arranged.

Had both and Empyrean have mids and highs better, bass is better in D8000. Advise to listen first as D8000 has 6k peak that may bother a lot of people.

Just go back to your D8000 thread and prepare to defend your beloved ones when someone at last discovers this 6k peak that disqualifies Finals.

Hello, can anyone please point me to Hugo 2 Windows 7 drivers. Couldn't find it any longer on Chord website and also google hasn't been much helpful so far. Does anyone use Win 10 drivers on Win 7? Thanks.

Yes, you are right. At the moment it seems like a waste. Thought that more power would make some difference and wanted to check it. In fact I am really content with sourcing straight from Hugo 2.

Well, have two pairs, little worried to break them now as I know it will be hard to buy another one.

Sad news.

Just checked prices of ex1000 on ebay after like 4 weeks and these got insane!!! Anybody know what's going on?

Yes, I think you are right. Tried another set of cables and it was better but nothing close to how it sounds with Hugo alone. It seems like a futile exercise now.

Ok, first setup tested, compared to listening straight from Hugo. Tidal->Roon->Hugo2->RCA Nordost Black Knight->iHA-6->unbalanced stock cable = complete fail. Was running it for 10 minutes and I don't even want to write what is wrong because everything was wrong. :) Also plugged he1000 and...

\ I have just set up iHA-6 I have on loan. Will be testing it with Hugo 2 and Empyreans.

I think musicality is a subjective term, so can't be strictly translated into FR and also my observation is that generally V shaped sound is regarded as more musical, but I feel differently in case of Empyrean.