Right, I'm not into chasing the diminishing of return. I'd rather wait for a reasonably priced electrostatic set and spend my money else where. 20 years ago people were fine with HD650, currently I just use it as reference. Running them with DX7 pro, I like both of my headset over HD650. Also I...

I alternate between Focal Elegia and HE4XX, I think it's fine with quartets and jazz, terrible with anything vocal. Then again, that's in comparison with Focal. They are pretty great with vocal.

Yes, the economics formula is a simple Revenue - Cost = Profit formula. Anyone who took economics 101 should know You are the one who is saying less margin equates to greater the product. Not me. This is what you said: I simply point out that you are incorrect. It seems like your wife agrees as...

Profit = revenue - expense and your scenario you could break out the expense by 1. warranty expense 2. cost of factory, material + labor So what you are actually saying here is that a successful company with bigger margin produce inferior product, The profit comes from their inferior product...

You measure the size of the company based on their capital and surplus/revenue. It's a simple financial measurement. The more cap/surplus the higher chance that company will survive the downturn of the economic hardship of the company. I'm merely stating the company have higher chance to survive...

I think you should measure the company by their revenue and capital/debt not the price of their headphone or do they pay for advertisement spot on headfi. Hifi-Man has been around for over 10 years and Pandemic probably bump their revenue a bit. So I have no doubt they will exist. We have...

I would make a bet on Hifiman being there for the next 3 years, but I won't make a bet that someone won't take your money close their FB page and run in the next 3 months. If your HE4XX disintegrated in 6 months, you are under warranty repair. So I called BS. If you are talking about repair...

Why would you trust an individual builder who could decide hang it up anytime than manufacture for warranty types of issue is beyond me. Did you even try to ask HifiMan to repair HE4XX?

Why would you set the normalization off. Normalization is setting everything to reference level, which is equivalent to volume setting at 100%.

Yah just some failed push on the new segments, bad management.

That's probably true. The companies are always chasing profit. I'm wondering if the hi-end headphone market has shrunken so much that there's less incentive to put R&D resource on it. The way I see it is that there are several ultra high value mid-fi like Hifiman that killed their profit...

That woulb be more fault on the Drop side instead of Sennheiser. I know everyone would want deal like 6XX, but 650 is like 20 years old. There's no way a company would discount their current flagship by 50%. lmao

Benefit of having chip controlled fridge? All the new feature requires chips, so you can just go to the new Samsung website and see the list of feature. Apparently you like stuff that has no features and surprisingly not everyone is like you. Apparently most people like new features. How is...

I disagree with the fridge example. First of all most of the modern stuff are chip controlled. The more advanced product line has more chips, hence more variables of failure. How does being steel last longer than say plastic? You are not jumping on your fridge. If you buy dumb down stuff it...

Is Parametric eq adjust based on some set parameter? In mathematical term parametric analysis means there's pre-set distribution. I'm just wondering if it came from the same concept.