Thanks for the honest reply Virtu. I've never used IEMs (unless cheap earbuds count ), much less TOTL ones so I had no idea what to expect. I guess everything has trade-offs. I'll continue to read the reviews with my newly tempered expectations.  

So currently I'm using an LCD-XC but lately I've been thinking that I may want to switch to something a bit smaller (TOTL custom IEM).   However, could a TOTL custom IEM compare (or best) the LCD-XC (in both sound and isolation)? Isolation is important, but I also don't want to downgrade...

So no one (that reads this section) has the experience to comment? I'll try dropping a line in some of the IEM threads.

So currently I'm using an LCD-XC with a Schiit Ragnarok/Yggdrasil as my setup at work (I'm at my desk 8 hours a day, gotta have some quality sound ) but lately I've been thinking that I may want to take my setup home and instead use something a bit smaller (TOTL custom IEM with another Schiit...

It's a shame that the Jotunheim supports balanced in/out but the DAC isn't multibit. The only balanced multibit DACs in Schiit's lineup are the Gunginir and Yggdrasil. I have the Yggy beside of me, but if I could have paired up a multibit DAC with the Jotunheim for under $1k I would have...

  Thanks for the heads up. I guess I'll go ahead and put it on and start using it then. Hopefully won't get a hotspot. 

My LCD-XC had the left driver fail. Audeze was pretty quick to turn it around and they confirmed that it now has the 2016 drivers in it.   Old Drivers   New Drivers   Can't say much impression-wise yet. The old drivers were well broken-in and most of my time spent with the old drivers...

So I just bought the carbon fiber headband (for my LCD-XC, but obviously there are more people with experience with the headband in this thread). It appears the head strap is so long that it contacts the actual carbon fiber headband. Didn't Audeze offer to correct this or am I just making that...

  My LCD-XC had the left driver fail. Audeze was pretty quick to turn it around and they confirmed that it now has the 2016 drivers in it.   Old Drivers   New Drivers   Can't say much impression-wise yet. The old drivers were well broken-in and most of my time spent with the old...

Just got them back. Audeze turned it around in 1 business day (I shipped them 7 day, they shipped them back 2-3 day). Back in business. I may have even lucked out and got an upgrade if there really is a "2016" revision (had to tell since these are new drivers that are still breaking in). Can't...

Just got them back. Audeze turned it around in 1 business day (I shipped them 7 day, they shipped them back 2-3 day). Back in business. I may have even lucked out and got an upgrade if there really is a "2016" revision (had to tell since these are new drivers that are still breaking in). Can't...

  Be sure to come back and post your results. I demoed the Ether C for a week and wasn't impressed with the bass either (compared to my LCD-XC). It gave the headphones the impression of being thin/distant/hollow to me. I didn't have a chance to burn them in (and that was before the "1.1"...

So how do you know which version you have? My LCD-XC had a driver failure and I had to RMA it to Audeze. I now have it back and it appears they changed just about everything but the headband and the mini-XLR connectors (still silver, not black like the newer ones). Would be nice to know if I was...

They're almost 2 years old. They haven't been used much so it almost seems like they just deteriorate on their own? Not sure.   Yeah I'm not sure why Audeze has so many failures compared to other brands. I'm not sure if it's a design flaw or what (since most of their headphones are basically...

I was able to compare the Ether-C and LCD-XC for a week or so and I actually came out preferring the XC. Something about the C sounded a bit hollow/thin to me (maybe I'm just a bass-head and the XC's bass won me over).   Having said that, I think the left driver just died on my XC (I have zero...